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Reno Diaries 2022 – Ep. 5
Happy to report the Gold Sport pilots got on the course today! Unfortunately Andy Findlay had to pull off after two laps, leaving Jeff...
Real Racing Today
With an incoming cold front starting to push, the smoke has cleared for the best visibility so far this week and the racers are...
Endeavor For Sale
Readers familiar with Formula One air racing may have been wondering where F1 racing standout Endeavor has been this year.
The short answer is Endeavor...
Turbo Glamour
Imagine if you had this pile of custom-built turbo plumbing to put on your airplane. How long do you think it would take to...
Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert, designer and builder of current Formula One front runner Fraed Naught among others, unexpectedly passed away at home yesterday of an aneurysm.
The...
And We’re Racing (for awhile)
With 10 miles of visibility today the pylons are getting dusted today at Reno. Or were until our early afternoon deadline when the smoke...
Morning Brief
If you think that Reno Racing is just a bunch of guys that hop in their planes and go ripping around the pylons, then...
A Report From the Smokehouse
Today has been an unusual day at the air races, if only because wildfire smoke has taken over the schedule. Visibility has ranged from,...
Formula One First Report
Going into todays heat races, which will get underway when the smoke permits, the story in Formula One is a brewing shootout between defending...
A View From the Pylons
The Reno Air Races have had a few days of qualifying for the various race classes and had their first day of actual heat...
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Shop Safety
This article covers what you should have learned in your high school shop class, but didn't, and more. It discusses safety glasses, proper treatment of chisels, gloves, jewelry, shop coats, hand tools, urban myths, safe shoes, hardware, biomechanics, capturing wayward chips, machinery placement in the shop, air-powered tools, cleanup, pneumatic cutting tools, and other common sense advice; by Bob Fritz.
Flight Review: Horse Perennial
LeRoy Cook flies Larry Kinder's award-winning Mustang II, a fast and fun homage to the legendary P-51 Mustang.
