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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-10-2023, 11:54 AM
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Yep! A P-51 'Mustang'. This was a "Heritage Flight", an event that pairs a modern military airplane with an older warbird for a flyby at air shows.
 IMGP9754 copy by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
F8F 'Bearcat' and an F/A-18 'Hornet'
 B0239573 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
P-51 'Mustang' and an F-22 'Raptor'
 IMGP8434 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
P-51 'Mustang' and an A-10 'Thunderbolt' (AKA 'Warthog')
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-09-2023, 10:25 AM
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Thanks! The brown one is a Fairchild Republic A-10. It's armed with a GE GAU-8 'Avenger' gun. The GAU-8 is a 30mm 7 barrel Gatling gun that spits out 3900 rounds per minute. The Warthog always wins because you do NOT want this machine behind you!
 IMG_0441 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-30-2023, 09:33 PM
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We always called 'Touch and Go' landings "Crash & Dash"...
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-09-2023, 06:11 PM
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It's sad to see the sun set on such a unique event.
 B0162581 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
There are rumors that the air races will continue at some other as yet unnamed site. But the insurance isn't the only problem. It needs a place that can support (lodging, food, etc) thousands of spectators and aviation crews. This city will also need a remote airport that can be closed for about a week every year. Stead airport where the races used to be was an abandoned WWII Army airfield about 15 miles from Reno. Over the years Reno has grown out to the area around the airfield and the likelihood that an airplane will crash into a housing development or one of the countless industrial sites has become too great.
 IMGP0197 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
 IMGP1133 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
 B-25 pano 1 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
I really like the Heritage flights.
IMGP9754 copy by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
 B0239568 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
 IMGP8447 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
and other things
 IMGP0554 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-08-2023, 06:50 PM
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Since the cars,boats, planes,etc thread has broken up, I need to bump this up so us wingnuts can find someplace to post.
 B0164558 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
 IMG_0154 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
 B0164782 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
 B0163785 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
 IMG_0184 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
 IMG_0622 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
National championship air races in Reno, Nevada. Bless everyone who made those memories.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-24-2023, 12:45 PM
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Gimme an F! (F-15, F/A-18, and an F-22.) The ramp at the national championship air races in Reno, Nevada.
 B0163361-Pano by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
9 landscape frames stitched in Lightroom.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-29-2022, 10:00 AM
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An unusual perspective of the CH-47. Or another look at the venerable Chinook....
 IMGP4667 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-26-2020, 12:32 PM
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A C-130 taking off past a thunder cell.
 IMGP1968 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
28mm Super Takumar f3.5 on a K5ii
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-17-2019, 04:20 PM
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They were taken with a Sigma 150-500 on a K5ii.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-17-2019, 10:47 AM
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Here's a few more of the Screamin' Sasquatch taken at the National Championship air races in Reno, Nevada.
 IMGP9614 by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
 Screamin' Sasquatch by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
 Messin' with Sasquatch by Miles Shaylor, on Flickr
The Screamin' Sasquatch is a 1929 Waco. The engine is a radial Pratt & Whitney 985 but between the main gear is a GE CJ610 turbojet engine. (The airplane has both a jet and a reciprocating engine!) It uses both 100 octane avgas and Jet A fuels, and requires controls (and indicators) for both engines.
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