Practicing shooting prop blur in the yard.
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Practicing shooting prop blur in the yard.
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Did a quick trip to the Black Rock desert, second one in 2 weeks. Nice sun rise on the playa this morning.
The Nevada rocket society is there for the week. This morning enjoying my morning coffee I heard something that was not normal, it was a rocket going way up. I stopped by and they were happy to tell be about their rockets/group. One guy was explaining that until Friday at 6:pm they Navy limits there flight to 8,000ft, after that through Sunday its limitless. Pretty interesting hobby, some of the motors cost upwards of $600.00 per shot. Pretty laid back group, they were BBQing ribs this morning at for the evening feast.
They said there will be a lot of people there this weekend and rocket action will be non stop.
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2012 - The wind
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2021 - STOL Practice
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2021 - Nice front line seat.:cool:
2021 - In the pits.
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2021 - Interview
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2021 - Not the best quality but cool seeing 8 sport planes rounding the back pylon.
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2021 - F35 put on a nice show.
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From what I heard that was a Female Capt. in the Air Force & the only female qualified to be part of the F-35 demo team. She did a damn good job of flying it.
Bob,
Thanks for that bit of info. She did a outstanding job.
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Originally Posted by Lockheed Bob
Have to throw in my appreciation as well. Major Kristin Wolfe (callsign Beo) is not only a great pilot but having briefly met her and watching her with the fans, especially, the kids, she is also a great ambassador for the Air Force. It is clear she loves her team and they love her. Smiling, laughing, and cutting up until, as she says, "Showtime!"
I have zero doubt I was in the presence of a future pilot because of her and the team.
James
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Was an honor and a pleasure to work with Maj. Wolfe and her entire team. The level of professionalism is inspiring and brings everyone's game up a knotch or two.
Couple that with Steven Hinton flying the Heritage Mustang, it certainly kept me sharp!
BTW...on Saturday (wind gusts up to 40kts), both Steven Hinton and Maj. Wolfe keyed the mic to say, "Boss, that was really rough." Hinton included (paraphrasing) "that's the roughest I've ever experienced here at Reno."
And just to poke a little at RARA....not ONE performer scratched due to winds all week. Not one! :bullhorn::thumbsup::1poke:
Yeah, baby!
HAH! Way to go there Boss! Yeah, Saturday was something else in terms of winds. All I could think of was imagine what one of those new America's Cup "flying" boats would be doing (not necessarily something good!)Quote:
Originally Posted by Air Boss
Yeah - The Major Wolfe/Steve Hinton combo was pretty special in so many ways but maybe most of all because both just love to fly at a level that the rest of us can only dream of.
Great to shake hands - even with the backdrop of Sani-Hut row! Congrats on a clean event and great job to you and the entire crew. I do think the Honda Jet demo crew owes you guys a round though... :cool:
Come on September 2022!
James
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2021 - VoS overload for a 4 year old.
Even playing in the dirt gets boring after 6 hours.
Taking kids into the show is a must, which we did on Sunday.
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Heres is his mom in VoS in 1991.
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VoS dirt is in their genes.
I can just imagine 20 years from now, I'll be in my late 80s and we'll be there in introducing the 4th gen. to VoS.
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2021 - Here you go, I have blessed this aluminum duct tape to give Miss America the extra speed she needs to beat a Sea Fury. :cool:
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2007 - Canadian Snowbirds
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2021 - In the hanger shot 1.
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2021 - In the hanger shot 2.
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2021 - In the hanger shot 3
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2021 - In the hanger shot 4
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2021 - In the hanger shot 5
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2021 - In the hanger shot 6
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2021 - Last 2 of the hanger series.
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Moriarty, NM
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So a user named Carbonprop, in New Mexico. Any connection with our friend Steve? Steve has many championships to his credit...
Neal
from Reno 1983
shawn
Hi Neal, Yes, it is me, Steve Hill, Crew Chief, Team Nemesis and former F1 prop builder...Quote:
Originally Posted by wingman
Hello back, Steve. Birgitta says to say Hi.
How many Reno Championships do your propellers have at this point?
Who's making props for the class since your retirement? When I left Racing I think everybody but the two or three slowest Bronze were running Twisted Composite props. How many are still running? How long do you think one of your props can remain raceworthy?
Neal
Hi Birgitta!Quote:
Originally Posted by wingman
My props were on the F1 Gold Winner every year from 1991 to 2017. I sold the prop-making business to Eric Dienst, an F1 pilot from the Chicago area operating as Rev'd Up Composites. I don't know how many are still running but I suspect quite a few. Carbon fiber construction has an extremely high resistance to fatigue so the props I made should last a long time. Thanks for asking.
These days I try to fly my sailplane as much as possible and also produce sailplane parts, do weight and balances, install new instrument panels, etc. Had a fun adventure riding along with another F1 pilot, Justin Phillipson, when we took the NXT from Moriarty to its home at NASM in 2018.
www.twistedcomposites.com
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I remember reading about that flight in the NXT when it happened. A pretty epic flight.
Has anybody ever written up a coherent account of the IF1 propeller odyssey -- the catastrophic failures of the metal props, the struggles with wood in going really fast. and the development (pretty much by one man) of the carbon fibre variety at the end of the 1980s? That's one of the many really interesting things that have always been going on behind the scenes in Racing -- other examples might be fuels in T-6, props in Unlimited, kit vs one off in Sport, and on and on. The fans never see this stuff, but I find all this -- the engineering, the testing, the in-class politics -- really fascinating. There's a lot of Air Racing history that's never been written and may never be. You were around for some of the USARA-PRPA-IF1 battles that were tearing things apart in Jon's early racing days.
It sure was tight in that NXT cockpit. Crappy photo plane, too. It's a good thing it went so fast...
Neal
I guess we killed this thread...
Does seem that way.
Maybe a Mustang for today? I opened the window of the Press bus for this. It was much more comfortable than standing out in the sun and wind.
Neal
I'd love to learn more about the IF1 propeller odyssey, I really don't know much at all about it. Maybe we could start a separate thread?Quote:
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I'd certainly be interested in exploring this. Steve Hill is a very big piece of the story, but it would be good to also get a man named Bill Rogers involved. He has posted here in the past as "Billro". Bill was crew chief for John Parker's championship efforts in Formula 1 and was involved in the great political battles between Eastern "sport plane" racers and what he considered the "real racers" in the West, as well as the propeller issues ongoing through everything. All this, with breaking metal props and crash landings was happening at much the same time. It was a very interesting and confusing (to insiders and to outsiders alike) time. Many interesting, complicated threads to the story. I wonder if Steve Hill would be interested in such a discussion?
Neal
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Due to my memory loss, I get to rediscover things I've gotten to do by sorting through my files.
1997, just a fan who had discovered the power of the Internet..
Probably should be in the what a ride thread but.. Neal posting that shot just made me think of how extremely fortunate some of us are to get to experience stuff like this!