- "Chubby" but efficiently aerodynamic fuselage.
- Huge radial engine with 800 hp; engine drove a Smith controllable- pitch propeller.
- Short coupling of the control surfaces, which made it hard to fly.
- Includes a pilot with a flying cap.
- Option to rig the flying wires in three different ways.
- Jimmy Doolittle set the landspeed record in a Gee Bee in 1932.
