2022 National Championship Air Races Photos

[Leo]

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Just a few random ones as I process them. New camera so learning a new tool. The last one is the P-63 climbing out towards the T-storms.
The weather was kinda sucky. The only time it wasn't smoky it was raining.

[AAFO_WSagar]

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Nice stuff! Thanks for taking the effort and sharing here!!

[kennsmithf2g]

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Some misc. Sport practice/qual images

[kennsmithf2g]

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from Gold Sport Race

[kennsmithf2g]

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T6 1v1 final

[kennsmithf2g]

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Biplane Heat 2B finish

[kennsmithf2g]

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F1 Silver Race

[RAD2LTR]

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Will

[kennsmithf2g]

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220918 Reno Unlimited Silver from Section H of the Reserved Bleachers
1st Place #6 John Dusty Doud Jr. ?Shanty Irish? P-51A
2nd Place #0 Mark Moodie ?Span Can? P-51D
3rd Place #55 Ken Gottschall ?Man O? War? P-51D
4th Place #49 Michael Pfleger ?Lady B? P-51D
5th Place #63 Patrick Nightingale ?Pretty Polly? P-63C
6th Place #62 Tom Nightingale ?Bunny? P-51D
DNS #4 Jeff LeVelle ?Sweet and Lovely? P-51D

[Plane Nuts]

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Quote from ZacYates

"Hear hear, my Shanty Irish folder seems to be growing by the hour! (I'd like to make a 1/48 model so am gathering references)"

"Seeing where the gun camera is mounted on P-51As I have a question for Dusty: have you thought about putting a GoPro (or similar) camera in there for a race? It would make for amazing footage"

[CJAM427]

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Beautiful work Will! I'm excited to see what else you conjured up - particularly Bardahl Special, Pretty Polly and Shanty Irish (no pressure )!

Hey Zac, I'll play.

Shanty & Bardahl from Pylon 8 on Friday and Polly from 2 on Sunday.

[tedstriker]

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Wasn't that airplane originally named the A-36 Apache? I think the name Mustang came later from the British after they installed the RR Merlin in it.

Yes, it is.

We spoke with them in the pits today. It's not just an original P51A, but it is the oldest flying P51 in existence. It is Allison powered. The Allison is a down-draft carb, so the intake is on top of the cowl. Merlins are an updraft carb, with the intake on the bottom of the cowl.

It's been fully restored and is simply a beautiful airplane. It has raced at Reno before the restoration. At that time, it was known as Polar Bear.

[CJAM427]

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My first time on the pylons, awesome and equally challenging experience!

Here's a couple from F1 Heat 3B

[kennsmithf2g]

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Heat 2A

[ZacYates]

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Will, all exceptional! I especially like photo2 What a gorgeous shot of an equally beautiful airplane!

Hear hear, my Shanty Irish folder seems to be growing by the hour! (I'd like to make a 1/48 model so am gathering references)

Seeing where the gun camera is mounted on P-51As I have a question for Dusty: have you thought about putting a GoPro (or similar) camera in there for a race? It would make for amazing footage!

but if you manage to learn how to fly in something hard, everything else is easy.

This was a point the livestream announcers mentioned during every T-6 race - newly-minted P-40 and P-51 pilots would go back to their instructors to ask why they had to learn on something so hard!