Thursday, September 16, 2010

Reno Update - 9/16/2010

Here's a recap from yesterday, provided by LiveAirShowTV.   (Email readers - fyi. this is embedded video).  To quote LASTV - "An update on the start of racing at Reno. Who's in....Who's out....Who's the one to beat".

LASTV was in the Strega pit with Steve Hinton and team this morning.  They were planning on visiting Bob Button, Wil Whiteside, and the crew in the Voodoo pit shortly afterwards.  We'll share that as soon as we get word it is posted!



Marilyn Dash kindly forwarded some pictures to us early this morning (we were already on our way to Stead airport when they were received, so sorry they are late being posted). These were from the fence on Wednesday.  


Dreadnought - photo by Anthony Taylor

Sparky - photo by Anthony Taylor

Strega - photo by Anthony Taylor

Reno – Day One from aroundthepattern.com 
The first official day of the races was today, Wednesday. The morning sessions were filled with qualifying periods and the afternoon sessions were the first of the heat races for all classes except the unlimiteds.
The Reno Air Race Association has a website at airrace.org. All of the qualifying times and race results will be posted there.  I ‘borrowed’ some of the qualifying times and placed them in this pdf file. It shows the top four qualifiers in each class.  For those of you interested in the unlimiteds, Steve Hinton (the younger) qualified first Flying Strega at 484.255 mph followed very closely by Will Whiteside flying Voodoo at 479.180 mph.
The races are not the only things going on at Stead. Between the race sessions there are air show acts. When  ...

Reno 2010: Relentless Loses Prop in Flight from The Fabricator 
Unexpected may become the watchword for the 2010 Reno Air Races, especially in the Super Sport Class. Qualifying runs and heat races began Wednesday, September 15, with racing running through Sunday, September 19, at Reno, Nevada’s Stead Airport. ...

The Fastest Place on Earth- Reno Air Races! - VictoryGirl
So just who goes to the Reno Air Races?  Everybody who loves the whine of a turbo-charged, fuel injected, tinkered-to-damnation inline engine  and the daring of pilots willing to speed 350 kmp, 9 inches from each other’s wings, 12 feet from the ground around a 3 mile closed course!
We’ve been here a day, and already we’ve met good friends and ...

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