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    New article in this months addition of Smithsonian's Air and Space. Great picture of Tsunami and the All Coast Super Corsair in formation. Here is the link: http://www.airspacemag.com/history-o...ace-180958478/

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    Great article. It would be neat to see Tsunami fly again some day.

    Besides Tsunami, what other one off unlimited racer projects are out there?

    Shockwave

    American Spirit/Jackson-Cornell

    Wildfire

    Machbuster/Renegade/RP-4 - not quite sure this belongs in the category with the above
    Random Air Blog

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      Re: Born to Race

      Originally posted by Samuel View Post
      Great article. It would be neat to see Tsunami fly again some day.

      Besides Tsunami, what other one off unlimited racer projects are out there?

      Shockwave

      American Spirit/Jackson-Cornell

      Wildfire

      Machbuster/Renegade/RP-4 - not quite sure this belongs in the category with the above
      This is the most important one and it's been getting some attention recently, there's been a lot of talk on other sites about when it's finished if it's even allowed to race at Reno after all the rule changes.
      Nonetheless, at least this is out there and is still being built in an attempt at Reno gold!

      Our dear colleague Orion (Bill Husa) was working on a race plane at the time of his passing. He had nicknamed it "Gumbo" and I had the privilege of Bill showing me over it when I visited his facility a few years back. I was surfing Barnstormers (as we diehard enthusiasts do) and found an...
      Reno from '99 to '22

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        Re: Born to Race

        Originally posted by GRNDP51 View Post
        This is the most important one and it's been getting some attention recently, there's been a lot of talk on other sites about when it's finished if it's even allowed to race at Reno after all the rule changes.
        Nonetheless, at least this is out there and is still being built in an attempt at Reno gold!

        http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/fo...ign-gumbo.html
        With twin IO-720s, that's too much displacement for the Sport Class and it likely doesn't weigh enough for the Unlimited Class either. From an "eyeball engineering" perspective, that doesn't look like enough vertical fin and rudder, either.

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