Lady B!Quote:
Originally Posted by Big_Jim
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Lady B!Quote:
Originally Posted by Big_Jim
... Mojave, 15 Nov 1970 ...
Gene Ackers, N6667 "Race 22"
Mike Loening, N5482V "Race 2"
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I really like the variety of shots you are sharing here.Quote:
Originally Posted by sledge39
Such cool stuff.
Out of curiosity what did you shoot your shots with?
Your posts have got me to start thinking of dusting off my boxes of 35mm slides from the late 70s - mid 80s.
Be a nice project for snowy day this winter.
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Another historical racer that needs to be brought back.
Even if only for trophy laps so fans and future fans can at least see and hear her in person.
Go Dago Go
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Those are great! Yours?Quote:
Originally Posted by sledge39
Since I almost went to that event when I was just turned 13 (in '64) I'm fascinated with anything from the event.. were you there???
Good stuff Brad,Quote:
Originally Posted by Big_Jim
Trusty Rusty is one nice looking P51.
Thanks for sharing your adventure there with us here..
Anymore random contributions from your archives?
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Some really bithin’ stuff in this thread. Thanks to all contributors. So many pics I’ve never seen before. I keep going through the whole thing wanting to single out a thanks for each awesome shot but then I get totally distracted by the next shot. :rolleyes:
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A busy day...
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4504/...b0ed62d7_b.jpgHam88-Silver--raw0010 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr
x2 :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Fence Sence
What a nice pair of 38s, always nice when they come out to play.
Let them puppies breath :cool:
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Desertdawg wrote ...Out of curiosity what did you shoot your shots with?
. In those days I was using two 35mm film bodies with normal, 135mm, 300mm, 300mm + 2x converter, 500mm mirror
AAFO_WSagar wrote ...Those are great! ..Yours? ..were you there???
. All shot and post-processed by 'YT'... Was at Reno '64 the full nine(9) days
.. More from Reno '64 ..
01 Thorn, Lyford, Love
02 after the cross-country from St. Petersburg, FL
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Well sir, if I have never before thanked you for your presence, please allow me now to thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing Reno Air Races history here!Quote:
Originally Posted by sledge39
I'm sure you've heard my tale of woe where my 13 year old enthusiasm waned after looking at the event from the top of the last hill almost made it out on my three speed bike back in '64 when I was 13 living in the suburbs just past Greenbrae Shopping Center (going toward Pyramid Lake)
This has fed my fascination wondering what I might have seen and experienced had my buddy and I braved it and let gravity pull us down the hill we had just climbed, toward the circling glittering dots rounding the pylons below... at the time, we knew not what we had missed by not wanting to pedal back up that darn hill! But we had run out of water and stamina and if I remember correctly, school started the next day, or, had already started and we had to be there early...
Anyway, sorry for drifting :OT-2: ! It's just that I was.... there... just not... "there" and I suppose that's what has fueled my passion for all of this after all!
Can't wait for September!
PS! I just required my second to last laptop which has the necessary expansion slots (no longer available, that I can find) to add cards so I can read my SCSI drive array where all of everything that was not on the laptop and my "recent" (probably three years old) backups that went swimming with the fishes last year... can't find an emoji that has a dombass beating himself on the head for putting his laptop in the "basement" of a recently launched boat!
ANYWAY, HOPEFULLY I can access about a three year old backup, plus all of my old stuff!
Reservations made, GSR RV park, have to have hookups, small pets that don't do well in baking motorhome!
That fits perfectly there.
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You did well, these 2 shots are awesome. Love the paint scheme she looked nice in white. The shot with drop tanks is a stunner.Quote:
Originally Posted by sledge39
I could look at that one everyday.
What Wayne said x2.
Lon,Quote:
Originally Posted by Lon Moer
Where is that, Lincoln, CA?
Thanks for sharing.
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.. More from Reno '64 (part 2) ..
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I'm thinking Schellville Ca.Quote:
Originally Posted by Desertdawg
Will
Crunch time.
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I miss Reno.Quote:
Originally Posted by Desertdawg
I miss it too.. but have you not been in more than the year?? If so, I think we have support groups for those who have missed a year, or.... :eek5: more? …Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob
I've whined elsewhere re: how much this darn server costs, but... wht to ell! ey!
If I can get/keep the ad clicks paying for about half the server cost, pensioner/social security can eek a hundred bux a month or so to keep er afloat!
Unpublicized fact:
We, (the aafo server… me) have hosted several pretty important websites over the years. For the most part, it's just been gratis. The server costs me the same, no matter how many websites are on it. Most servers in the class that I've leased for this website for many years, are built to handle MANY active websites. The bad option is called "shared hosting".. This is where most of the world's websites live, it's cheap, reliable for a lot of cases, but totally does not work for a place like this that can have momentary visitation rates in the.... many thousands and more. When our lottery winning pylon 4 bus was rolling in after the 2011 disaster, cell phone traffic was hopeless, we were held in place, not knowing what happened, I was able to access the internet via the overloaded cell voice network, hooked into the message board and learned what had happened.
Anyway.. we currently host the Heritage Trophy website, as we have since the very beginning of the program. We host a tribute to Lefty Gardner for his family, Bob Hannah has had some of his websites for years.
I was going to dump the server, dump the unpaid websites and go to shared hosting.. Darn it, I just paid off my car, though not as much as the monthly server costs, does give me a bit of room to breathe!
This topic has opened into an amazing place! I may need to dig in and separate some of the topic branches into separate threads.
I know it's the moderators and my job to deal with complex growing threads like this one but I'd love to see some suggestions from the sidelines!
On the one hand, this separate thread is already popular and well visited, on the other, there are several sub topics buried within the thread title that do not have anything to do with the original posted topic..
Obviously, some really cool side topics have surfaced within this thread.. If you were in charge, would you
Gaining access to my archives... downloaded from the server! One of them is not mine, but we should not forget the contributions from Dominique Thirot over the years! Do not know where he currently is but he is missed!
Stuff already posted in the past.. already on the server, just relinking..
2015 My first time to Reno and the first year with that wrap. Looks like we are installing the 360 Camera mount. We mounted it to the ADI tank using suction cups and a bunch of zip ties.Quote:
Originally Posted by Desertdawg
(As an aside, personally I kinda like it when the conversation continues and goes off topic. That's how face to face conversations work, and I think it limits things when we force people talk about one topic. Sure you can always just create a new topic, but the discussion seems to lose momentum for lack of a better word.)
I had that pic of Miss Merced as my desktop for years. I agree, I wish he would post again.Quote:
Originally Posted by AAFO_WSagar
Will
The Sunday shower 2013
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First two are at Ione and the last one is at Schellville/SonomaQuote:
Originally Posted by Desertdawg
Double dose of Miss USA :cool::cool:
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Reno 2014
Family affair.
I bet that little man will be asking dad sooner than later - Dad, when can I race airplanes?
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Hanging on the wall of PJs Saloon.
Oh PJs, haven't been there in while, use to be a regular stop.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fence Sence
The chicken wings and German "Spatin" bier where a good time starter.
There is so much old "Reno Air Race" memorabilia hanging around in this town.
Wonder what Lyle liked there?
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The old Gold N' Silver Inn on 4th street had a banquet room that had every years race poster hanging. Haven't been there in probably 10 years though. Got married 35 years ago in the Chapel of the Bells next door and had our first toast there...
One of the Masonic temples in Reno has a nice collection in their party hall.
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... more Reno '64 ...
Not racing, just a flyby
Lacy N182XF Race 64
Slovak N9885C Race 80
Adams N332 Race 9
The yellow and white biplane is Clyde Parsons Great Lakes
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I sure am enjoying these photographs from 1964. There was not much quality work being done back then. Some ugly paint jobs, though. Thanks, Sledge...
Neal
Two tails better than one. :cool:
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I'll see your two tails, and raise you two tails in the air...
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Will