Upcoming Reno

[GregP]

For all you Reno fans, here is a Hawker Sea Fury with a Wright R-3350 warming up.

Perhaps you can see how night fighters could home in on such a spectacle?


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMPdV6xA8X0

More later ...

 

[GregP]

Here 's a typical Reno Unlimited Gold emergency and the ensuing aftermath.

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/aviation/upcoming-reno-40437.html

Not the best of times for Team Furias!

 

[GregP]

For you Sea Fury fans, here is race 232 qualifying before it blew up, and shredded the cowling:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DX7SNEiixc

Skip Holm said he was running better than he ever had when if blew up.

Bad carma ...

 

[GregP]

And here's what happens when it all goes wrong.

I was there and saw it. Kevin is alive and well and so is his wife Andrea.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqPPCCKAFp8

We have pieces of that aircraft in the museum.

 

[GregP]

We're looking forward to good times again an 2014.

Not s shoo in by any means, but Steven Hinton Jr. is at LEAST an odds on favorite with so many in a row.

Go Stevo!

 

[BiffF15]

I was there and saw it. Kevin is alive and well and so is his wife Andrea.

Greg,
Small world! I was at that show as well (narrator on the F-15 West Coast Demo Team). Jimmy Buffet played that night at the airshow if I remember correctly.
Cheers,
Biff

 

[FLYBOYJ]

As of right now I'll be going to PRS and Reno - I'll be crewing this jet...

 

[GregP]

Hey Joe,

Don't you DARE come home without 2014 pics, Joe!

Get us a good cockpit shot, OK? .... assuming the owner doesn't mind, that is.

I am under the very strong impression that the TS-11 is a very nice, forgiving aircraft with no vices. I heard that from Ivan Rasmussen of World Wide Warbirds out of Deer Valley, Arizona in the late 1990's early 2000's.

Hi Biff,

I had a very good friend who worked at the GM proving grounds where it crashed and we poked around the crash site several weeks later. Not much to see, actually.

I have spoken with Kevin about that and asked why he didn't go out the right side rather than the left. He said he never thought about it, and didn't think much of which way the prop was turning, but probably WOULD think about it in the future since hitting the horizontal tail wasn't any fun. On almost any scale, it ranks right at the bottom of fun things to do.