Reno Airrace - Rare Bear 2003

This is when Rare Bear just only had a 3 bladed propeller. Now she flies with a 4 bladed propeller, and is the currently record holding aircraft with a top speed over 523 Miles/Hour (840 Kilometer/Hour)

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Reno
• Airrace
• Rare
• Bear
• 2003
• speed
• record
• racing
• ww2
• warbird
• currently
• extreem

[sneakytouchyourplace]

Those planes make the most badass sounds ever

[chubsmagoo]

Giant butter knife prop blades.

[stewjw]

Great machine, the airframe even works well as a model RC plane as well.

[rpsmith221]

Isn't it amazing how world war 2 warbirds became modern day air racers? I haven't kept up with this much, but I wonder how many different examples there are of these there are?

[check6ii]

Prop is a modified p-3 orion prop.

[moplin1]

@chubsmagoo I think he said the weight of the prop was holding the plane down

[chubsmagoo]

Why did they change from a 3 blade to a 4?

[vendetta81]

too kjp45 and blewett76, the owners of these aircraft worked very hard to be able to afford to fly, maintain and modify these aircraft. when you have the means to do so you can say yay or nay on whether to modify and race. that said, doing so means ALOT of work and expense by the very best in aviation maintenance. to do all of this hard work and be told that you're wrong for doing so or that it must've been easy is a bit insulting. btw, cnc shops won't make parts for us because of liability.

[jdhiner1]

That is the most awesome sound especially when its live.

[FiveCentsPlease]

@kjp45

It's a little more complicated than pop-rivets and tin snips. Thank fully there are a few people still practicing the art of metal work. The P-51 is the only aircraft to experience what might be considered an inventory of new parts (except engine) due to its popularity and number of flying examples. What may signal the end of big piston racing in Reno is the fact that the value of these warbirds is getting so high that they are more valuable in bone-stock condition than as a racer.