Silent film of the 1925 Schneider Trophy Race

A silent film of the 1925 Schneider Trophy Race





The 1925 race was flown off Bay Shore Park, Maryland, (near Baltimore). Lt. James Doolittle, USA, flying the Army’s entry, a Curtiss R3C-2, was the winner. The U.S. was represented by both Army and Navy entries. According to The Navy's Schneider Cup Racers by Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. Rankin, U.S. Marine Corps, the Army airplane, was the same landplane (designated R3C-1), which had won the Pulitzer Races a few weeks previous to the Schneider contest. Converted to a sea plane by the removal of its wheeled landing gear and the addition of twin floats, it was flown at an average speed of 232.573 m.p.h. to win the contest. An equal-span biplane with a span of 22 feet and a length of 20 feet, two inches, it was powered by a 619-h.p. Curtiss V-1400 liquid-cooled engine.

The British entry was a Gloster Napier III and Italian was a Macchi M.33 Flying Boat.