Word: windhood
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...spectators feared he was about to crash into treetops at the north end of the field. Scoffed Doolittle afterward: "I was nowhere near them. I must have been at least four feet over them." Once again he rocketed back & forth, this time endangered by splashing oil which smeared his windhood. His fastest lap was 309 m.p.h. Said he: "I left five miles more in her for 'Russ' Boardman. He can shoot the record up to more than...
...Deadly Windhood. After close inspection of films taken by a Universal Newsreel photographer it was suggested that Lowell R. Bayles crashed to death in his attempt to break the world speed record because of the collapse of a windhood of his own design. The pictures show the hood being driven into Pilot Bayles' face by the wind pressure during his power dive at the beginning of the straightaway. Presumably stunned by the blow, Pilot Bayles levelled off too quickly...