Tom Wilson
Pumping avgas and waxing flight school airplanes got Tom into general aviation in 1973, but the lure of racing cars and motorcycles sent him down a motor journalism career heavy on engines and racing. Today he still writes for peanuts and flies for fun.
F1 Shaping Up
Qualifying is often telling the tale with racing around Reno's pylons, but when the heat races start the reality of Sunday's Gold money races begins to take shape.
Our Dumb Mistake
Earlier we commented on John Parker's Thunder Mustang as being supercharged... Turns out our long term memory was having fun with our rapidly slipping short term recall.
F1s and Bipes
Number one qualifier in Formula One is not the expected Steve Senegal but rather Lowell Slatter in Fraed Naught at an impressive 253.597 mph. As for Senegal, he posted 250.431 mph in qualifying and 245.846 mph in this morning's heat race. Maybe it's a case of being busy as Steve is also racing a Super RV-8 in the Sport Class where he ran just a little slower at 235.107 mph.
Flying Brix
If model airplanes are the gateway hobby to building your own experimental, then Thomas Lockwood's Lego-based Flying Brix must be the contemporary version of Guillow's balsa kits--or an alternative to conventional wooden display models.
Wednesday at Reno
While Editor Dye has already made the first of 2016's pilgrimages to the National Air Races, today was our first for the year. As...
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Flight Testing
Personnel roles, emergency contingencies, communications-there are many moving parts involved in the first flight of a homebuilt. Paul Dye catalogs them and offers a sample flight plan that worked for him.