Air Racing
The sport of racing aircraft
416 MPH
Not all speed records look fast on video, but this one does.
February 06, 2012 |
By Tony Reichhardt
Do Something
Washington struggles for a response to last year’s Reno Air Races crash.
January 10, 2012 |
By Linda Shiner
Green Light for Fuel-Efficiency Races in California
Teams gathered their experimental planes in Santa Rosa, California last week for a competition of their environmental industriousness.
October 03, 2011 |
By Heather Goss
Going Once….The 1920 Pulitzer Race Trophy
From the Chicago Daily Tribune, November 28, 1920: "At last the pride of the Army air service, the Verville-Packard chasse biplane, has established its worth by romping ahead of thirty-four starters in the first Pulitzer...
September 02, 2011 |
By Rebecca Maksel
A & S Interview: Andy Chiavetta
The Reno Kid, raceplane builder par excellence.
September 2011 |
By Linda Shiner
One of the "Intrepid Birdwomen"
"Here is a group of feminine flyers who don't just fool around with flying," reported the Los Angeles Times in January 1934. "They hardly ever powder their noses. They don't even carry mirrors. They'd rather poke their not unhandsome little noses into a balky carburetor than riffle up a pack of bri...
March 11, 2011 |
By Rebecca Maksel
"Totally Way Illegal Anywhere Else"
Where do old astronauts go? Some of them simply can't shake that need for speed, so they strap on exotic aircraft and sign up for the Reno National Championship Air Races. Of the three astronauts who have taken up air racing -- Hoot Gibson, Bill Anders, and Curt Brown -- Brown, a two-time Reno cham...
September 16, 2010 |
By Pat Trenner
Stand up, sit down, fall off
It's not new material, but if you haven't seen this, you owe it to yourself to take a couple minutes to watch. Austrian skydiver Paul Steiner did some ambitious wing walking earlier this year in this Red Bull video, with a pair of Blanix gliders flown by Ewald Roithner and Kurt Tippi high above the...
August 30, 2010 |
By Mike Klesius
"Do these long wings make me look fat?"
At an "Ask An Expert" lecture by John Anderson, National Air and Space Museum curator of aeronautics, I learned that although Howard Hughes' H-1 racer is displayed wearing its cross-country "long" wings, the high-speed-dash wings, which are shorter, are in storage at the Museum's Garber facility in...
May 19, 2010 |
By Pat Trenner
The Bear Is Back
The winning-est Bearcat in air racing steps up once more to the starting gate.
November 2009 |
By Preston Lerner
Is Winning Everything?
For an air racing legend named Rare Bear, yes.
September 29, 2009 |
By Diane Tedeschi
Reno Wrap-up
What was hot—and what was not—at the 2009 National Championship Air Races.
September 28, 2009 |
By Linda Shiner
Live! From Reno! It's Air Racing!
For the first time in the 100-year history of air racing, fans can watch a live broadcast of the sport from the aerial race course in Reno, Nevada. This Sunday, September 20, the final races in all six categories will appear at LiveAirshowTV. With cameras in the grandstands and in the control tower...
September 18, 2009 |
By Linda Shiner
Bring Back the Brute
A GeeBee racer in flyable condition? Don’t do it.
March 2009 |
By ROBERT BERNIER
Racing Planes of Fame
A visit to the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California is a tour through the history of air racing.
March 01, 2008 |
By Linda Shiner
