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The North American T-6 with the No. 68
taxing to the take off. "Big Easy" is piloted by Michael Gillian. |
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Darryl G. Greenamyer is a living Reno
legend. A few years ago after winning some races in the Unlimited Class he went back
to the Sports Class where he dominated the scene. |
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#64 "Red Knight". Pilot of this
AT-6G painted in the striking red is Keith McMann. |
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Only on the second glance you are able to
spot Daryl Greenamyer overtaking the Glasair III of Mike Jones (#10) in this picture... |
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The airline-pilot Jim Booth with
his AT-6 #444 during the race. It`s nickname "MYT-6" clearly explains the
relationship between the plane and Mr. Booth. |
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"Blue Bijou" is the name that
John Parker gave his Thunder Mustang. These smaller rebuilts of the famous P-51D Mustang
are especially hard to distinguish while airborne. hat John Parker seine Thunder Mustang
getauft. |
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Tom Campau pilots his North American
SNJ-5 "Mystical Power" #21 around the pylons. He was this years champion in the
T-6 Class. |
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On this picture you can see the extremly
short fuselage of Michael C. Dacey`s #71 "Fool's Gold". |
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This polished SNJ-4 is definetly one of
the beauties of this class. #70 is flown by James R. Thomas. |
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#71 has just passed the pylon #2. It`s
really hard to believe that the aircrafts of the Sports Class exceed speed of over 300
mph. |
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"Wyoming Wildcatter" is the
name of this colourful T-6 with the #77, which is flown by Jim Good from Casper,
Wyoming. |
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"Firecat" is a true eye-catcher
in the new Jet-Class. Only L-39 Albatros compete against each other in this class. |
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Rick Siegfried passes the pylon #2 with
his #87 "Stocker". |
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The former "Space Pilot" Robert
"Hoot" Gibson, known from the Unlimited Class, passes pylon #2 with the #15. |
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Showing the classical chequered pattern
on the cowling: theAT-6 #90 of Gene McNeely. |
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The #7 is piloted by Lee Behel who
is an Audi and Porsche dealer in San Jose and he is also starting in the Sports
Class. |
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James R. Thomas, Keith McMann und Michael
Gillian fighting wingtip on wingtip for the best places. |
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For 38 years only propeller-driven
aircrafts were flying at the Reno Races and the new Jet-Class was as expected getting a
lot of attention. |
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Jim Eberhardt with his AT-6G #30 under
pressure by Wayne Cartwright and #44 "Six Shooter".
No, Mr. Cartwright doesn`t live at the Bonanza
Ranch (which is by the way situated not very far). |
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Mary Dilda is going for the attack. She,
as a commercial pilot from Memphis/Tennessee is also very experienced in the T-6 Class. |
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One lap later: Wayne Cartwright has
caught Jim Eberhardt. The difference in the top speed of these aircrafts are rather
minimal because they are all in original fittings. |
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Also Curt Brown, here depicted with Bob
Buttons`s L-39 "American Spirit" overtakeing his competitor is a very
experienced pilot. He flew the Space Shutle on over half a dozen missions. |
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Michael Gillian tries to overtake James
R. Thomas on the outer lane. The rules demand that overtakeing some one is only
possible on the outer lane. |
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All the aircraft of the Jet-Class were
maintained by a german team of experts. We had a lot of fun with Bernd, Jens and Fischi
from Aero-Contact (www.aero-contact.com). |
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This picture really shows the low
altitude during the race while the group closes in on pylon #2. |
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Very colourful were the aircrafts of the
Biplane Class. This is the Pitts S1-T "Red Eagle" of Jaqueline Warda. |
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Rittner Will somersaulted during the
landing with his Questair Venture #6 and luckily remained unharmed. |
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Mostly Pitts Special could be seen in
this class but also Mong Sports and Smith Miniplanes. There was not much room left in the
hangars. |
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Tommy Rose very sadly missed this luck.
Just seconds after this picture was taken he died in a crash landing due to a technical
problem on his elevator. |
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