Add to ORKGMajor General Jimmy Doolittle's "400 Racer," a "Travel Air Mystery Ship," photographed in flight two minutes before it crashed at Parks College's Curtiss-Steinberg Airport. Parks students had installed a new 500 horsepower Wasp engine and modified the fuselage. Doolittle took it up for a test flight over the airport with a crowd of Parks onlookers. At an altitude of about 150 feet, he gunned the engine to 250 miles per hour, when suddenly pieces of wood and fabric began flying off the wings and it lost an aileron. The plane flipped over and shot up to 300 feet, at which time Doolittle bailed out and landed safely as his plane crashed nearby. Doolittle was a close friend of Oliver Parks and a frequent visitor to Parks College. (23 June 19...