as the story is set during the 1930s. The 1965 film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines depicts a £10,000 prize air race between London and Paris. The film takes place in 1910 and utilises many authentic reproductions of aeroplanes from that era. The November 1981 Duran Duran single My Own Way features the opening lyric, "I saw you at the air race yesterday." The 2013 Disney movie Planes follows the story of a cropduster who dreams of becoming an air racing champion in the global 'Wings around the Globe' race. William Faulkner's 1935 novel Pylon, about a group of post WWI flyers turned barnstormers and air racers, and their unconventional lives set against the backdrop of a fictionalised New Orleans. The novel was adapted by screenwriter George Zuckerman for the 1957 Douglas Sirk film The Tarnished Angels starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, and Jack Carson. The TV series Metajets is about a group of air racers in the future who fly jets as a part of an air racing organization which is their cover for their actual work as an air squadron that fights against a terrorist organization. See also Model aircraft#Competitions Drone racing Notes References Air Race 1 World Cup Ninety Nines Royal Aero Club Records Racing and Rally Association 100 years of air racing Red Bull Air Race Parabatix Sky Racers Aero GP Reno Air Races Sport Air Racing League