Following the break during World War Two the races resumed in Cleveland from 1946 to 1949 with the dynamic addition of more powerful ex-military aircraft such as the De Havilland Mosquito, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, North American P-51 Mustang, Supermarine Spitfire and Vought F4U Corsair. Can you imagine the excitement these low and fast races must have created when aviation was only just starting to take a foothold in history?