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Great plane!

Jimmy Doolittle's one-off civilian version of the P-35.

Another civil aircraft was the DS, (or Doolittle Special), a single seater for James Doolittle, employed at the time by the Shell Oil Company, while the AP-7 was another racer, powered by a 1,200 hp (895 kW) R-1830 engine and used by Jacqueline Cochran to win the 1938 Bendix Trophy race and to set a women's air speed record. Seversky entered two aircraft based on the P-35 in a 1938 competition for a new fighter for the Air Corps. One was the XP-41 (which had the company designation AP-4D, which was a P-35 with a 1,200 hp (895 kW) R-1830-9 engine fitted with a two-stage supercharger and the AP-4, which had a turbo-supercharger mounted in the belly of a deeper fuselage. The Air Corps preferred the AP-4D, which was ordered into production as the P-43 Lancer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seversky_P-35

grace!

This is the fin from the MGM Brougham taken by me, Tim Kalina, back, around 1977 at Martin's home in San Diego. At that time I owned this piece or fabric.

Sorry, I meant to write the starboard rudder fabric.

And that's Martin Jensen holding the fabric.

This is me, Tim Kalina, way back around 1976. Martin Jensen took this photo of me holding the plane's rudder fabric. My hair is much shorter these days!