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Will Whiteside displaying Bob Button’s highly modified
N.A. P-51D Mustang "Voodoo" (Race 5) overhead Yolo County Airport west
of Sacramento, CA. |
| 2. |
John Currenti flying the Commemorative Air Force’s
Douglas A-24B Dauntless over the Texas oil fields at the 2005 CAF FINA
Airsho in Midland, TX. This year’s CAF FINA Airsho will be held on
October 9-10. |
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Based in Masterton, New Zealand with The Old Stick &
Rudder Company is Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk (NZ3009). It is seen being
flown by well known UK based display pilot Stuart Goldspink in the sky
over Marlborough, New Zealand on the practice day at Classic Fighter
2009. |
| 4. |
Steven Hinton rounds pylon 2 in “Strega” (Race 7), a
highly modified N.A. P-51D Mustang owned by Bill "Tiger" Destefani.
Hinton won the Unlimited Gold Championship at the 2009 National
Championship Air Races in Reno, NV at a record speed of 491.8220 mph.
This year’s Air Races will be held on September 15-19. |
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Crowd favorite “Air Biscuit” (Race 2), a Grumman FM-2
Wildcat (86572 N86572) being flown by Tom Camp during the Sunday Bronze
race at the 2009 National Championship Air Races in Reno, NV. |
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Dr. Brent Hisey is seen in his N.A. P-51D Mustang
(44-74536 N991R) “Miss America” (Race 11), during the Sunday Bronze race
at the 2007 National Championship Air Races. |
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Race 33, a highly modified Lancair Legacy flown by well
known race and test pilot Darryl Greenamyer at the 2009 National
Championship Air Races. |
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Marilyn "Dasher" Dash in her Pitts S-1S "Ruby" (Race 4)
rounding the pylons at the 2009 National Championship Air Races in Reno,
NV. |
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Philip Goforth flying his Formula One Stratocaster
"Knotty Girl” (Race 69) at the 2009 Reno National Championship Air
Races. |
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Robert “Hoot” Gibson taxiing back after an Unlimited
Gold heat in Mike Keenum’s Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 “Riff Raff” (Race 99)
at the 2009 Reno National Championship Air Races. |
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Edward P. Soye is seen flying the Great War Flying
Museum's replica Fokker Dr.1 Triplane (C-GFJK) during a Dawn Patrol at
the 2006 Geneseo, NY Airshow. |
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The Warbird Heritage Foundation’s Douglas A-4B Skyhawk
departs AirVenture 2010 in Oshkosh, WI to perform in the jet warbird
show. It is painted to represent an A-4C flown by LCDR Ted "T.R."
Swartz, who flew off of the aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard
(CVA-31) during the Vietnam War. On May 1, 1967, LCDR Swartz shot down a
MIG-17 over North Vietnam with an unguided ZUNI rocket. This was the
only air-to-air kill by a Skyhawk during the Vietnam War.
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