Unlimited Air Racer 'Voodoo' Heat 3A with mayday landing.

This was the second heat race for the Gold racers during the Reno National Championship Air Races.
Voodoo with Will Whiteside at the controls was third from the poll and quickly jumped into second behind Strega at the start of the race, just before going around pylon 4 on lap 4 Voodoo's engine broke a valve, Will used his speed and turned it into altitude so he could position himself for a mayday landing on runway 14.
For more info on Voodoo air racing, checkout http://www.voodooairracing.com/

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Air Racing
• Airshow
• Warbird
• P-51 Mustang

[aglandcattleman]

What does he pass @ 5:59-6:00?

[Voodoo1650]

@aglandcattleman

Once he drops down and passes the Tigercat and the camera switches to the wing view, he then comes up on the P-51 Mustang 'Merlin's Magic', he then passes the other Tigercat just before the engine lets go.

[AlanMartinNala]

ADMIRABLE footage, among other reasons because until now I have never had the chance of watching one of these races from an onboard camera. Besides, since I don´t live in the US, there are a number of things that I still don´t know about these races, such as: how many laps do pilots have to fulfill? How many participant on average per race? Around ten maybe?

[Voodoo1650]

@AlanMartinNala

Hi Alan,

The Gold heat race on Friday is 6 laps, Saturday it’s pushed to 7 and then Sundays Gold final is 8 laps, the course is 8.433 mile long and it doesn’t take them long to get around at the speeds they’re going.

Depending on the size of the Unlimited field they usually run 6 to 8 planes in a race.

[4thgenpilot]

great flying

[canals22]

Thank God there was no fire... you guys really earn your drinks... Thanks for sharing.

[DoomsDaySlip]

What happened to the engine? I know a little bit about this stuff, but I can't put my finger on it

[flyingtigre1]

You guys are the very best.

Keep up the good work. And hope to see you win many championships.

F-1

[straighttailpilot]

Id love to have the honor of flying formation with rarebear. although hed probably stall spin crash and burn at my 182s max speed haha.

[straighttailpilot]

what I would give to fly one of these puppies.

[turbominivan60]

crap 

[miller787brx]

Wow! What a great video!

[aglandcattleman]

@Voodoo1650 Ok I see it now.  Thanks