'BUCK SHOTS'

[BuckyD]

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"And Away We Go!"...

RACE: Sat. 9/13/86-Reno NCAR-UNL HT-3B-

It's John Penney flying Lyle Shelton's F8F-2 #77-"Rare Bear" holding the lead, during the pace lap of Reno '86's Saturday Silver Heat f/Unlimiteds, as the pack blasts down onto the W. Chute- "Valley of Speed", after turning old Outer 6 Pylon.

Following behind The Bear is (L-R): Tom Kelley in P-51D #19-"Lou IV", Howard Pardue in his #14 F8F-1 Bearcat, Ron Hevle in Wiley Sanders' P-51D #96-"Jeannie Too", Lefty Gardner up high in his P-51D #25-"Thunderbird", Bob Yancey flying a nice tight courseline in his F4U-4 Corsair #101-"Old Blue", w/Dale Clark in Sea Fury #40-"Nuthin' Special" following Clark. Not included in the picture,- Skip Holm was trailing last, flying Joe Kasperoff's P-51D #39-"The Healer".

When the dust settled after the 6-lap heat, the final results were: 1st- #77 @ 406.870-av/mph, 2nd- #19 @ 377.870, 3rd- #96 @ 367.682, 4th- #25 @ 367.316, 5th- #40 @ 349.441, 6th- #39 @ 346.595, 7th- #101 as a DNF & 8th- #14 as a DQ.

DBD

[BuckyD]

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"HAPPY FLAG DAY!" - God Bless The Good Ole' USA!!!

In honor of Old Glory today, here's a few vintage photos to share of that venerable Unlimited Class P-51D air racer- #11-"Miss America"...

DBD

[Bob]

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BuckyD,
With PreciousMetal returning to racing, and its debut at PRS. Any chance you could whip up a few pics detailing the history of this fine racer?
Thanks in advance.

[BuckyD]

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Hi Bob-

Re. your spcl request - see P.25 / Post #242 of this 'Buck Shots' running thread.

Hope that will suffice for now, as I have to pack to leave f/PRS in the a.m. Thx! Over 'n out...

DBD

[BuckyD]

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"Precious Metal"- is Back!

'BIG Congrats' goes out to race pilot- Thom Richard & crew on Thom's successful PRS checkout in the Unlimited Class flying his new aquisition: the magnificent Griffon-powered high-mod 'Mixmaster' Mustang racer- #09-"Precious Metal" (N6WJ).

Here's a 'tip-'o-the hat' selection of PRS 'Buck Shots' of Thom taking PM around the racecourse pylons during both morning & afternoon flying sessions on Friday (6/17/11)...

"Best of Luck" @ Reno 2011!

DBD

[Bob]

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Awsome pics Bucky, must be nice to get out to the pylons

[Leo]

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Always and still a wicked looking racer!

[BuckyD]

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'GOOD HAIR DAY' @ The Air Races...

Probably alot of folks at Reno '06 NCAR remember seeing this colorful film crew cadre out at work covering the event...

DBD

[Jason S.]

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'GOOD HAIR DAY' @ The Air Races...

Probably alot of folks at Reno '06 NCAR remember seeing this colorful film crew cadre out at work covering the event...

DBD

Yeah, I remember when they were there, the guy on the far right is pro skier Glen Plake http://outside-blog.away.com/blog/20...len-plake.html
Jason

[AAFO_WSagar]

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Whatever became of their effort?

[BuckyD]

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No clue, Wayne. Have no idea who they were working for. If ya really wanna know, you could contact RARA or Glen Plake fm their crew via the website blog link Jason put up in his reply to my photo on the prev. thread page...

DBD

[BuckyD]

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"DREADNOUGHT!"

Mon. 9/9/85-Reno NCAR Qualifying & Practice- Race pilot- Neil Anderson dives Frank Sanders' big P&W R-4360-powered Hawker Super Sea Fury- Race #8-"Dreadnought" down onto the fast W. Chute "Valley of Speed" & was top Unlimited Class qualifier w/his speed of 443.129-mph that year.

DBD

[BuckyD]

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" Very Close Call & Big Lucky Break!". . . . . . . .

This past Sunday's (7/10) spectacular Duxford Airshow Skyraider/P51 mid-air collision during execution of a LH peel-off break fm a 3-ship formation pass, and Mustang pilot-Rob Davies' amazing low-level bailout (w/the damaged AD landing safely & no injuries to either pilot or spectators) -really generated world-wide media attention.

That same afternoon up here in Alaska, a Piper Navajo & a Cessna 206 floatplane flying directly towards each other through narrow Lake Clark Pass suffered a mid-air & both damaged aircraft landed safely afterwards in Anchorage (-the Piper w/9-aboard @ Merrill Field & the C-206 w/4-pass. @ Lake Hood seaplane base).

A mid-air collision in which no one's injured w/both planes able to land safely is one of the rarest-of-events, and it brought to mind one such example that happened during Reno '97 Unlimited qualifying (Tues-9/9) between Howard Pardue's Hawker Sea Fury & Sam Richardson's Yak 11-"Czech Ride", which some air race folks might recall. My friend & fellow air racing historian/author- Gary Williams describes the details in his excellent book series-AIR RACING RESULTS as follows, to go along w/a few Buck Shots photos:

"Howard Pardue (#66) was on his qualifying run heading to Pylon #4 when Sam Richardson (#29) called-in f/a timed-lap & dropped down onto the course near Pylon #6, just about the time Howard got there (see photo). It's apparent that neither saw the other for Howard continued on to complete his lap, landed, and returned to the pits to find he had prop tip damage. Sam pulled up high & found his Yak was damaged but controllable. After a safe landing, Sam realized his vertical fin was damaged & he was missing fully half of his rudder!"

Pardue was able to qualify 5th-fastest @ 407.048-mph & successfully-managed to race in all his UNL heats & Sunday's Gold-w/a Yak victory score mkg. painted in the appropriate place on the LH fuselage.

Unfortunately f/Richardson & his crew,-they had to work all during race week repairing his chewed-up v.fin/rudder assy. by installing a unit obtained fm a Yak owner over in Carson City (if my memory's still working ok).

The Monday (9/15/97) departures day photos show Nelson Ezell warming up HP's Sea Fury (w/victory score) & Sam's response painted on Czech Ride's rudder.

That was a miracle aerial encounter 4 sure & we're all really glad for that!

DBD

[BuckyD]

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"Mixmaster Motor Maintenance"......

Thur. 9/17/98-Reno NCAR-Stead Field: Bill Rogers & crew at work making engine tune-up adjustments on the mighty Rolls-Royce Griffon V-12 inline engine powerplant in the exotic custom-built Levitz-Rogers Lear-winged Unlimited Class Mixmaster Mustang- Race #38-"Miss Ashley II" at the end of the day.

DBD

[Big_Jim]

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A mid-air collision in which no one's injured w/both planes able to land safely is one of the rarest-of-events, and it brought to mind one such example that happened during Reno '97 Unlimited qualifying (Tues-9/9) between Howard Pardue's Hawker Sea Fury & Sam Richardson's Yak 11-"Czech Ride", which some air race folks might recall. My friend & fellow air racing historian/author- Gary Williams describes the details in his excellent book series-AIR RACING RESULTS as follows, to go along w/a few Buck Shots photos:

"Howard Pardue (#66) was on his qualifying run heading to Pylon #4 when Sam Richardson (#29) called-in f/a timed-lap & dropped down onto the course near Pylon #6, just about the time Howard got there (see photo). It's apparent that neither saw the other for Howard continued on to complete his lap, landed, and returned to the pits to find he had prop tip damage. Sam pulled up high & found his Yak was damaged but controllable. After a safe landing, Sam realized his vertical fin was damaged & he was missing fully half of his rudder!"

Pardue was able to qualify 5th-fastest @ 407.048-mph & successfully-managed to race in all his UNL heats & Sunday's Gold-w/a Yak victory score mkg. painted in the appropriate place on the LH fuselage.

Unfortunately f/Richardson & his crew,-they had to work all during race week repairing his chewed-up v.fin/rudder assy. by installing a unit obtained fm a Yak owner over in Carson City (if my memory's still working ok).

The Monday (9/15/97) departures day photos show Nelson Ezell warming up HP's Sea Fury (w/victory score) & Sam's response painted on Czech Ride's rudder.

That was a miracle aerial encounter 4 sure & we're all really glad for that!

DBD

I have this whole incident on videotape as I too was standing out near the guide-pylon on "the road", and it really is a voilent impact as that poor little Yak gets tossed about the sky pretty hard. Sam did a great job saving it, that's for sure...