Reno Air Race 07 Unlimited F8F Bear Cat

Get in the cockpit for an upclose view of Tempus Fugit II with Dave Morss at the controls. The beautiful Bear Cat belongs to Provenance Fighter Sales. Special thanks to the team from Provenance headed by Simon Brown for making this possible.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Dave
• Morss
• air
• plane
• F8F
• Bearcat
• Reno
• Unlimited

[shimarizu]

AWESOME!!! And what is that music?, also AWESOME!!!

[karenmorss]

Thanks. This is the theme song for the tv show Saving Grace by Everlast. KM

[MMFineArts]

Wow, awsome! My son's friends love the music, what/who is it?

[karenmorss]

Thanks, Mark. This is the theme song for the tv show Saving Grace by Everlast. KM

[Ojimy47]

Why the music?  I want to hear the sounds from the engine. If I wanted to hear music, I'd plug in my iPod.

[yakovlev3a]

F8F is an old favorite of mine. Nice vid. Good music too

[wendellb36]

Theme to saving grace by everlast very moving with the recent tragedy at reno

[wendellb36]

Everlast?

[wendellb36]

I can't place the music who is the group?nickelback?

[philkidd]

The transitions from video to still pictures is irritating at best. Totally ruins the flow. The music takes away from what viewers really want, to hear that lovely radial roar.

[AintLifeGarand]

Thanks, Karen! :)

[bfgray]

@cantroos The transision from sub to super sonic is very difficult and requires a much different shape aircraft. (Hence Concord looks diff then a 737) It also requires far more power. In level flight the 737 cannot come close. There was an incident over the greatlakes (long time ago) where a 727 went into a near vertical dive and super sonic--they barely managed to save it by dropping the landing gear--slowing it down enough to pull out at some 5k alt. The plane was scrapped.

[cantroos]

@bfgray well what if say the guy just put his foot all the way down and just held the accelator on full as long as he could, do you think maybe a jet plane like a 737 would break the sound barrier? Or maybe if he did that while diving really sharply. Like going from 40 000 feet to 10 000 with the throttle full power.

[bfgray]

@cantroos Your joking right? Otherwise start listening. The speed of sound depends on the density of the air so it varies a little with the weather and drops off with altitude. At sea level it is aprox. 760mph, at the airliner crusing alt. it is about 660mph. At Reno mach 1 would be over 740mph. At Reno the fatest prop planes do laps about 500mph. Airliners cruise about 0.7 to 0.85 mach--600mph plus or minus. (None break mach 1 except the Concord which is now a museum pc.)

[cantroos]

@bfgray no way, that's faster than the speed of sound, so the whole plane would just shatter into one hundred and five pieces.

[bfgray]

@cantroos (I don't know if your serious) I have been to these races many times including this year...I'm not familiar with this particular plane but the fastest of them can exceed 500 mph.