Megan Vande Voort, whose husband, Shane, owns Classic Aviation at Pella Municipal Airport (KPEA) in Iowa, sent us these photos of a Cub at sunset.
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Bragging rights
While Steve Hinton Jr. didn’t claim the top spot in the Unlimited category at the 2017 Reno Air Races, he still maintains bragging rights — which were displayed prominently on the aircraft. As seen in photos sent in by William E. Dubois, the usually colorful Voodoo was encased in all white at the 2017 races, […]
And the winner is…
Pilot James Consalvi, flying the highly modified P-51 “Strega,” took first place in the Unlimited Gold Championship at the 54th annual National Championship Reno Air Races on Sept. 17, 2017. Consalvi, captured here after the race by William E. Dubois, beat Steven Hinton Jr. in Voodoo in the final lap. Hinton has won first place […]
High flying at Reno 2017
Ace photographer Lisa F. Bentson captured these photos on the second day of the 2017 National Championship Air Races in Reno:
Reno: Day 1
Our Air Racer in Residence, William E. Dubois, and his son, Rio, and photographer sidekick Lisa F. Bentson, sent us these photos, snapped during the first day of action at the 2017 National Championship Air Races in Reno.
Sun rises on Reno
Our intrepid Air Racer in Residence, William E. Dubois, and his photographer sidekick Lisa F. Bentson are in Reno, as the races officially kick off Sept. 13. They sent us these photos of the grounds before the races got into full swing: Crack of dawn Wednesday, Sept. 13, at the start of the National Championship […]
If James Bond flew an RV…
Penny Hamilton sent in these photos, snapped when two different aircraft with a James Bond theme visited Granby/Grand County Airport-Emily Warner Field (KGNB) in Colorado. “A James Bond 007 fan painted his RV to celebrate the British super agent,” she noted. On another day, a Cherokee 235 stopped by the airport, sporting the Pussy Galore Flying […]
From San Francisco to Lake Doubtful
Two readers sent in two very different photographs captured during general aviation flights. In the first, Glenn Swiatek submits a photo of San Francisco from 10,500 feet, snapped on Sept 2, 2017. “Since I am based at Hayward Executive Airport (KHWD), I have only been above the Bay Area at a high altitude just a […]
A fighter’s low pass
Piergiorgio Goldoni sent us this photo he captured of a low pass by a model RC Tupolev TU-28-128 “Fiddler” on the runway at Modena-Marzaglia Airport (LIPM) in Italy.