50th annual Reno Air Races under way - RGJ.com | The 50th annual Reno National Championship Air Races kicked off Wednesday at Reno Stead Airport under mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the high 80s.
Video: Original Reno Air Races Pilot Reflects On 50 Years of Flying - KRNV My News 4 | RENO, Nev. (KRNV & MyNews4.com) -- Long before airplanes were built for speed and just about everything in aviation was simplified, there was Fred Rechenmacher. “It was dirt runways, just regular biplanes,” Rachenmacher said. “I happened to have a biplane at the time as the races were held on the road to the lake.”...
Video: 50 years of air races in Reno - MyNews4 | RENO, Nev. (KRNV & MyNews4.com) -- It's the 50th year for the National Championship Reno Air Races. In 1964 they took off from the Sky Ranch airfield in what is now Spanish Springs...
Reno Air Races: Prior winning P-51 Mustang must race from worst to first - RGJ.com | If Strega, the P-51 Mustang that has dominated the Unlimited Class in the Reno National Championship Air Races the past five years, is to repeat in 2013, it will have to race from worst to first...
Strega's Canopy Implodes at 500 mph By Pia Bergqvist Flying Magazine | The competition in the Unlimited Class at the National Championship Air Races taking place in Reno, Nevada this week is off to an exciting start. On Tuesday, during the second day of qualifications for the Unlimited Class, part of the canopy on Strega, the airplane that won the class during the past few years at the hands of Steven Hinton, flew off...
Video: Qualifying rounds kick off for Reno Air Races - KRNV My News 4
Air Race photo: Crews work on Rare Bear - RGJ.com | Crews work on Rare Bear on Wednesday morning, Sept. 11. The plane lost a magneto during a qualifying round on Tuesday.
Historic 50th National Championship Air Races takes to the skies - The Leading Aviation Industry Resource for News, Equipment and | “As the last remaining event of its kind and the premier air racing event in the world, this year – our 50th year, is extremely special and we plan to do everything we can to celebrate our history and our future,” said Mike Houghton, president and CEO...
Inside the Reno National Championship Air Races - MensJournal.com | They are the last heroes of the Wild West, bucking and galloping across the sky in vintage airplanes at the world's most dangerous rodeo, the Reno Air Races.The Flying Cowboys of the Reno Air Races.
Unlimited Class – Taxing, Take offs, Fly Byes and Landings, Reno 2010 - Warbird Babe | I didn’t
think I would ever use these short clips when I was filming them on my
tiny Flip video close to Runway 8 at the Stead Air Field. And, I really
couldn’t remember which airplanes I had taped in 2010 or 2011. In
preparing for the races this year, much to my surprise, I stumbled
across a few clips of Jimmy Leeward flying his beautiful P-51, the
Galloping Ghost. Captured with Jimmy are several other beautiful
aircraft...Video: Local Park Takes On Air Races Theme - KTVN | One of the Reno Air Race's legendary planes is now a permanent part of the community, after a dedication ceremony today in Stead. Standing tall on a pedestal, rising above the sacks of concrete and construction machinery, sits a gleaming model of a military legend: the F8F Bearcat, the flying star of designed to chase Japanese zeros...
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