Reno Air Races 09
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Reno Air Races 09
Hello all. Well, this Sept. I went to the Reno Air Races and had a blast. Just thought I'd share some photos from the weekend. It was incredible to hear the warbirds in absolute full throttle!!! 
A Ford GT40 at the airshow
Sorry Dondo, you've got nothing on this!!!
A Ford GT40 at the airshow
Sorry Dondo, you've got nothing on this!!!
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A stock Bearcat
A rubber chicken on a Bearcat
A highly modofied Bearcat, RareBear
Czech Mate, a Yak 11
A P40
Another P40
An F7 Tigercat
The F7 Tigercat's nose art
A Hawker Sea Fury
Sawbones, a Sea Fury
Riff Raff, a Sea Fury
Dreadnought, a Sea Fury I think he's over 4000 HP
A Sea Fury
Strega, a P51 and the winner of the Gold Unlimited class. The plane clocked in over 500 MPH for 3 consecutive laps in it's qualifying heat on Saturday.
A P51
Voodoo, a P51
Miss America, a P51
Air Biscuit, a FM-2 Wildcat
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A purpose built racing biplane. He absolutely smoked all of the other planes in his class. I believe he lapped every plane in the race.
Planes from the Formula class
Team Poky. I believe you can buy a plane like this from only about 125-250K and it'll do over 400 MPH
Poky on take off
Nemesis
Relentless
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The Gold Unlimited class awaitng take off
The Gold Unlimited class at the start of the race
A Corsair crossing the finish line
A Sea Fury at take off
P51s going at it
Corsair vs. P40
Sea Fury vs. P51
The T6 class (air racing's Nascar) at the start of the race.
T6s at the first turn of the race. It was a tight pack and there was almost contact.
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The A10 Warthog, my favorite plane.
The A10's 30mm cannon.
A 30mm round for the A10
F15 Eagles
An F15 prepairing for take off
An F15 at take off with a long low pass
F15s in the air
A Russian jet.
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This is Fat Albert, it's the Blue Angels C-130 support plane.
The Blue Angels on the way to the runway. They even taxi extremely close.
Blue Angels taking off in tight formation
Fly by with Carrier landing gear extended
18" of seperation
All 6 of the Blue Angels in formation.
Im totally jealous! I want to go do that one of these years. What I would do to fly a P-51. Though P-38 are my favorite WW2 plane though.
Did you get any movie clips? I hear Paul Allens collection of planes fly around my house all the time. Ill run trip scramble to get outside to see them.
Thanks for the pictures!!!
Did you get any movie clips? I hear Paul Allens collection of planes fly around my house all the time. Ill run trip scramble to get outside to see them.
Thanks for the pictures!!!
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Man, that's one hell of a telephoto lense you've got there. The perspective on some of those races is awesome, did you manage to get above their flight level in a few cases? I wish I'd had a lense like that or at least good binoculars for when the blue angels were here...
I'm totally jealous though. A-10's and C-5's were above my house daily growing up but every summer, there was a stunt plane that practiced every afternoon, but I've never seen anything like those races!
I'm totally jealous though. A-10's and C-5's were above my house daily growing up but every summer, there was a stunt plane that practiced every afternoon, but I've never seen anything like those races!
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