Reno Air Races 2023

[nuuumannn]

Gidday folks, a few preliminary shots of the Reno Air Races. What an experience! I'll be posting more as I edit the thousands of images and write copy of my coverage of the races. Keep an eye as I'll be posting images as I process them. Firstly, an early morning photoshoot of P-51 Swamp Fox and an interloper...

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More to come...

 

[SaparotRob]

Beautiful shots!

 

[Gary Cain]

Excellent photos! Keep them coming!

 

[nuuumannn]

So, I'm gonna include images from the races here, but for those of you interested in following along with a pictorial account of my trip, I have opened a new thread:

Nuuumannn's quick trip to Reno!

Gidday everyone. This year I decided to make the trek to the final Reno Air Races as I felt that as a true aviation enthusiast, I couldn't live with myself if I had not been to the Reno Air Races at least once. The air races are that much of an institution and I felt very privileged to have been...

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For now, though, some P-51s rounding Pylon Two...

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[Jeff Hunt]

WOW!

Cheers

Jeff

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[rochie]

Very nice Grant

 

[BiffF15]

Nice! Thanks for sharing!

 

[GregP]

So, I'm gonna include images from the races here, but for those of you interested in following along with a pictorial account of my trip, I have opened a new thread:

Nuuumannn's quick trip to Reno!

Gidday everyone. This year I decided to make the trek to the final Reno Air Races as I felt that as a true aviation enthusiast, I couldn't live with myself if I had not been to the Reno Air Races at least once. The air races are that much of an institution and I felt very privileged to have been...

ww2aircraft.net

For now, though, some P-51s rounding Pylon Two...

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The purple Mustang was in pieces 2 weeks before Reno at Fighter Rebuilders in Chino. They did a fantastic job of getting it done exactly on-time!

I watched that happen over a period of months, and I really wasn't too sure it would get done in time ... but Stevo Hinton was, and he was very certainly right. Looks better than it did in 1970 when it National Champion flown by Clay Lacey!

 

[GrauGeist]

Fantastic shots, Grant!

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Excellent pics, bud.

 

[nuuumannn]

The purple Mustang was in pieces 2 weeks before Reno at Fighter Rebuilders in Chino. They did a fantastic job of getting it done exactly on-time!

It was great to see, it certainly stood out, that's for sure. Steve Hinton was doing his thing in Bardahl on Saturday, as was Miss America, who was the only one who kinda' presented a challenge to Steve in times achieved, but according to an old hand, he reckoned Steve was gonna take the Gold. Given the cancellation on Sunday, that was the case...

 

[Airframes]

Great pics Grant.

 

[Peter Gunn]

Great pictures, thanks.

And the Boise Bee to boot! I loves me some P-51B {insert fanboi sigh}