Reno Air Racing

[MLS-12D]

A great little article here (http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/188234-1.html). :ok:
But I guess you nosewheel pilot types don't much care. You've got your Jepps to revise and logbooks to fill out to make sure you're current. And none of you could probably handle a day on the ramp in the high desert and then most of the night with the tailwheel types at the casinos. Naw, I shouldn't have even brought up the subject.
P.S. Anyone who can make a Harvard (T6 actually, but let's not be picky!) fly 238 mph (http://www.warbird.com/wrlkpg.html) has my respect! :ooh:

[david viewing]

I went down there in a 172 from Canada in 2000 and would recommend it to anyone with an interest in any kind of racing. We landed at Quincy, CA., and drove the last 50 miles because of concerns about meeting slot time requirements at Reno. With hindsight, I'd just go to Reno next time. I don't know if there is any chance of landing at Reno Stead, though, unless you are a retired astronaut.

The sun is blinding and if you are a Brit you will need plenty of protection from it. Happily they were selling straw boaters at the field but I wouldn't count on it! But as a Brit, it was an amazing and unexpected privelige to see that almost every entry in the unlimited had either British airframe or RR derived engine.
http://www.viewing.com/reno/gold2.jpg

An airband radio is a must and binoculars a good idea since you can see the entire course from the stand (I thought they would disappear over the horizon and re-appear for the finish 20 mins later!)
http://www.viewing.com/reno/field.jpg

[Chippik]

MLS
Great article, well written. It would be great to hear the RRs etc being pushed to the limits like they would have done during the war, just imagine the sound :cool:
but alas its quite a distance from blighty:(
maybe sometime Ill get to see em
a slight aside for MLS, Thanks for your info before its comming in very handy:ok:

[Kolibear]

if this has been posted before - apologies


One Second in the life of a Racer (http://www.enginehistory.org/rolls-royce.htm)

[MLS-12D]

Good to hear from you, Chippik! :)

Any aviation enthusiast who can't make it to Reno in person might enjoy the following substitutes:

(1) Robert Gandt, Fly Low, Fly Fast: Inside the Reno Air Races (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670884510/qid%3D1098455017/026-0115192-3669207) (1999); and

(2) The Sounds of the World's Fastest Motor Sport (http://www.aircraftrecords.com/productH_frame.html).