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 Post subject: Reno Air Races!
PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:22 am 
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Reno Air Races are on - Formula One, Sport even Jet, T-6...
check it out...

http://www.airrace.org/racingClasses.php

This one though from 1991 is intense-prop failure in a Lancair

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0txEC0Rhdg

Anybody there right now?


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:48 am 
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dang that looks like fun

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So much fun. Looks like it was a success....unfortunate the number of fatalities. Is this common for the races?


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i think this was the first year for fatalities at Reno since 98. rough year though. id love to go sometime.

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