Racing Committee officials inspect a competing floatplane before the Speed Week Air racing. (This is on a seaplane beaching ramp, August 1935 on Spontoon Island.) There are many international entries in the various categories of vehicle races. The entries compete with various airworthiness requirements and handicaps within various categories. This seaplane is likely to race in a 'two-engine floatplane' category. There are additional long-distance races that may have multiple types of airplanes competing in the same race. In some cases, there may be different handicapping categories to attempt comparisons between aircraft types.

The inspectors will check the structural condition of the air-frame, the fuel capacity, the fuel mixture, and engine size. Various safety factors will be checked, such as radio & navigation equipment, life-rafts & survival gear, mooring equipment, and condition of the floats and other landing gear, and the crew's understanding of the Speed Week racing rules. They also make sure there is sufficient crew for rest-breaks in the longer races.

An inspector notes that underneath the port engine, there is a housing for a Veeblefitzer-Cortney patent oil pump. Officials are an assisting local apprentice, plus 2 foreign, and one local Spontoonie technical inspectors. The crowds of local & foreign visitors are kept at a distance from the aircraft before the actual races. There may have been some cases of sabotage of the competition in years past.

Concept, design, pencil art by Jerry Collins; inks and some aircraft decoration by Ken Fletcher.