Identify the "Ooops...."

[Big_Jim]

Details?

[Leo]

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Ridge Runner?

[a4gturn]

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"White Lightnin"

[Race5]

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Scatterbrain Kid II

[Dialtapper]

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Well it is Alby's hanger where the Bear resides today.

It is a P-38.

Other than that don't remember this happening to any P-38's at Stead.

Didn't Scatterbrain Kid II and White Lightnin happened in Tex.?

[MRE]

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Ridge Runner for sure,don't know about the 38.

[Tim Jones]

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The P-38 is obviously, to me, not part of the problem here.
Wing and prop appear to be Mustang related.

Appears that the only thing the Mustang and P-38 have in common is the building.

[stuntflyr]

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That's Frank Taylor's P-38 after he bought it from Harrah's.

[mjragan]

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The first pic is a Mustang wing, P38 in the hangar with Mustang parts on the ground next to it.

[Big_Jim]

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#7 Ridge Runner III...or what was left of it on Sunday, 9/19/82. The fuselage was on one flatbed, the wing on another, and a pile of cowling, gear doors, the prop, spinner, and reduction gear in the Aviation Classics hangar next to Frank Taylor's P-38 project.

Dan Martin led the pace lap of Saturday's Silver Heat, only to blow the engine just as he crossed the start line. He was unable to make the field and landed gear up in the weeds, doing significant damage to the plane. While it was flying again by 1984, it would be another 13 years before the racing bug would be enough to bring Martin back to Reno again.

[AirDOGGe]

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Definitely RRIII circa 1982 after suffering an engine failure and belly landing in the dirt. the red spinner and snapped-off gearbox are good clues.

You can even see a photo of the aircraft still laying on the ground in John Tegler's book, and the right wing tip damage in said image looks identical to that of the wing on the flatbed trailer.