Air Races!?!

[snowracer69]

Anybody else going? My boss qualified today at 232 mph. He's in third right now, which is the exact place he started last year to win the whole thing. Two ahead of him are his main rival (a woman) at 235 mph and another fella at 237. He ended up smoking them both last year though, and today he told me he's still got some tricks up the ol' sleeve.



T-6 Gold Class, Nick Macy in Six-Cat (the most beautiful black T-6 you've ever seen).



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I head out Friday, will be in the pits all day Saturday and Sunday. If you're gonna be there, stop on by.



Josh

 

[KBennett]

Sweet! I love the old warplanes.

Best of luck!

 

[ndennis]

This just in... courtesy of avweb.com :



Instead of getting ready for the most anticipated race at the National Championship Air Races, Jon Sharp's Nemesis NXT team is trying to figure out what went wrong as the 400-plus-mph hopeful two-seat kitplane landed at Reno Stead Airport on Tuesday. Race spokeswoman Sue Putnam told AVweb the aircraft made what looked like a routine landing but the pilot "heard a bang" on the left side. "He tried to keep it on its right side as long as he could but of course it eventually came down and the landing gear collapsed and it slid along the runway," Putnam said. The Sharp team had hoped to showcase Nemesis NXT, a tiny composite taildragger sporting a Lycoming 540, in a highly touted match against Darryl Greenamayer's highly modified Lancair Legacy in the Sport Class. Pre-race speculation talked about speeds reaching 450 mph, faster than many of the Unlimited Class racers. The Sport Class is restricted to kit aircraft with reciprocating engines.



Kind of puts a damper on the racing. At least no one hurt.

N Dennis

 

[snowracer69]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! ARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! SOOOOO ANGRY NOW!!!! Nemesis is one of the reasons I was going to Reno! I am currently designing (for my senior design project) a sport-class air racer that would hopefully compete w/ the Nemesis! We were all looking forward to getting to see it fly! I hope they can get her back in the air quick!



Ruined my day... ... what a sweet little plane it was too!