Air racer or....?

[Lucky13]

What is this bird?

 

[fubar57]

Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh wear electrically heated suits as they pose outside their plane at Grand Central Airport in Los Angeles on March 21, 1930. They made a one-stop flight to New York in record time

Still looking.............

 

[stona]

Lockheed Sirius ?

 

[fubar57]

Lockheed Sirus. Another view...

 

[stona]

Same aircraft at the Burbank factory.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Shortround6]

You got it.

same plane on floats

The plane suffered a hard landing while on floats which made repairs to the Fuselage and cowling necessary, which may be why the cowling no longer has the pin striping on it.

 

[Lucky13]

Yip....just found it as well!
Cheers lads!

 

[Lucky13]

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/photo-shows-colonel-charles-lindbergh-and-his-wife-the-news-photo/515132372#photo-shows-colonel-charles-lindbergh-and-his-wife-the-former-annek-picture-id515132372

 

[Capt. Vick]

If you go to the NASM on the Mall in Washington DC and look at the helicopter display in the background and watch the accompanying video you will learn from the pilots of this around the world aircraft many things...including that the helicopter is far to expensive to ever just sit in a museum!

 

[Shortround6]

It was quite a famous plane in it's day.