few more from the Reno Air races

pete wpete w Registered Users Posts: 386 Major grins
edited September 21, 2009 in Other Cool Shots
original thread posted in sports, maybe it should have gone here.

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=144320

The Blue Angels were there this year in place of the Thunderbirds.


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The race finale was on Sunday , 8 laps of an 8 mile course racing less than 100 feet of the ground at speeds over 500 miles per hour. Some other shots in the previous post .

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This is the winner 22 year old Steven Hinton youngest ever pilot to win the Gold Unlimited race. His dad was the previous youngest pilot.

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F15's also did a fly by,

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Steady

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What would the races be without the girlie's.

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More here
http://wraight.smugmug.com/Travel/Reno-Air-Races/7506291_guLCV#P-1-15

Enjoy
Pete W
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Henri Cartier Bresson

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