FReepers go to the Races! (The Air Races That IS!)

Reno Air Race Association ^ | 30 June 2005 | hattend

[hattend]

It's that time of the year again, start making plans, get your vacation plans in order. Get your hotel reservations NOW!!! (they're going quick)

Are any other FReepers going?

Dashing Dasher is a FReeper Racer (#4, Biplane Class)!!!

My wife and I are Rare Bear Fan Sponsors and we can't wait to see the Bear defend it's title this year.

[hattend]

Who will be there? Go Bear!

Where?
Stead Field, Reno Nevada

When?
September 14th -18th (click on title link)

Air races and air shows, military teams, static displays, aircraft vendors. Something for everybody.

[hattend]

Pinging you to ping others

[hattend]

Ping

[hattend]

The Military Show Teams appearing are the USAF Thunderbirds and the Canadian Snowbirds!

[hattend]

I'll be in Box A-81 armed with one of these:

All FReepers are welcome to come by and have a Margy. If you can't come into the box seat area, get by the fence and yell! heheheh

See you there!!

[dfwddr]

DD, you now have your own keyword... how COOL it that !@!!!! ROFLMAO !!!!

[Echo Talon]

wish i could be there. bet it would be a blast! Are any P-51's
or P-38's going?

[hattend]

There are very few P-38s still airworthy at this time but there is usually one at the static display area. The last one to race regularly was "White Lightning" but it was damaged in a crash landing a few years back and is currently under repair.

There are P-51's galore! Like ten of them racing. There are two gold (top) class P-51 racers, Strega and Voodoo. The world's fastest P-51, Dago Red, retired after last year's race but I wouldn't be surprised to see it back one of these years.

Don't just wish you could be there...BE THERE!!! If not this year, start planning for next year. 3rd weekend of September.

[Echo Talon]

Wish I had the time and funds to do something like that.

[tophat9000]

Saying to fly by

---

"Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death ... I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing."

- At the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base Madena, Japan

---

"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3."

- Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot)

---

"The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire."

---

"Blue water Navy truism: There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky."

- From an old carrier sailor

---

"When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash."

---

"Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club."

---

"What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, .... the pilot dies."

---

"Never trade luck for skill."

---

The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are: "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" and "Oh S...!"

---

"Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers."

---

"Progress in airline flying: now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant."

---

"Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight."

---

"A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication."

---

"I remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous."

---

"Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!"

---

"Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries."

---

"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."

---

"When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten."

---

"Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day."

---

Advice given to RAF pilots during WWII: "When a prang (crash)seems inevitable, endeavour to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity as slowand gently as possible."

---

"The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you."

- Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)

---

"A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum."

- Jon McBride, astronaut

---

"If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible."

- Bob Hoover (renowned aerobatic and test pilot)

---

"Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you."

---

"There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime."

- Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB,
AZ, 1970

---

"If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to."

---

Basic Flying Rules: "Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space.

---

It is much more difficult to fly there."

---

"You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal."

---

As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft, having torn off the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives, the rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks "What happened?". The pilot's reply: "I don't know, I just got here myself!"

- Attributed to Ray Crandell (Lockheed te

[Dashing Dasher]

I can't wait! The DackWacker!

The best part about being a Biplane Racer is that we're done by 10am everyday - which gives us time for a nap before noon!

A-81 - See you there! I'll bring my Sharpee!

;-)

[Dashing Dasher]

My favorite Reno related quotes.....
Both by the genius, Art Vance.


Racing at Reno...
"You're a success at Reno, if number one...you don't kill anybody; number two, you don't kill yourself; number three, you don't hurt yourself; and number four, you don't bend up the airplane."


Flying the Sea Fury "Furias"...
"Flying Furias is kind of like doing your girlfriend on the hood of your wife's car at the drive-in while your wife honks the horn. Very exciting, but not too fun."

[hattend]

As you taxi by on your way back to the pit area, look for the whiteboard with "If you need lube, you've got the wrong dude - Go #4!!"

That's our box

LOL!!

[Dashing Dasher]

My mother will be so proud.

[hattend]

"Flying Furias is kind of like doing your girlfriend on the hood of your wife's car at the drive-in while your wife honks the horn. Very exciting, but not too fun."

Sounds like a T-shirt idea.

[Dashing Dasher]

Isn't that hilarious!

That quote was actually in an article in warbird press. I laughed my butt off....

[hattend]

My mother will be so proud.

Well, I'll make sure you're the only one who can see it...good thing you all are strung out taxiing back in.

;-)

I figured more FReepers were airheads. Perhaps I started this thread too early but hotels and RV spots are going fast.

[hattend]

Great quotes! I copied them to a word document so I have quick access to them later.

Thanks

[Dashing Dasher]

http://www.skygod.com has great quotes!

[Howie]

Wish I could go. Attended once back in the early 60's and that awesome ground-shaking sound is still imbedded in my memory.

Good luck