Air Shows & Events

Back to AVweb’s daily coverage of Reno ’99 Preview Rare Bear, Lyle Shelton’s highly modified F8F Bearcat returns to Reno. In practice on Tuesday, the Bear broke a clamp holding an exhaust stack damaging a cylinder and other engine components. The crew was finishing up the cylinder change-out on Wednesday afternoon. After P-51 “Voodoo Chile” […]

NOTE: AVweb’s coverage includes many more photos. Preview  |  Day 1  |  Day 2  |  Day 3  |  Final Day Preview Reno — to air racing fans, the name conjures up thoughts of Mustangs, SeaFuries and Bearcats in full cry bending around the pylons on the racecourse atReno/Stead Airport. The P-51s, Furies and ‘Cats of […]

While I was at EAA AirVenture ’99 in Oshkosh, I had thehonor of interviewing Paul Poberezny, whotold me, “Flying on the airlines isn’t flying, it’s transportation.” At thetime, I didn’t appreciate the significance of Paul’s remark quite as fully as I do now. My trip to Oshkosh was flying. I flew there in Mike Busch’s […]

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Making Airshows Exciting Again With CASPA, The Friendly Contest An airshow is anairshow is an airshow — pilots fly and people watch. Although the pilots giveit their all, sometimes it seems as if there’s nothing new under the sun. TheChampionship Air Show Pilots Association (CASPA) may have found a way to put the”wow” back into […]

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