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  • WOMEN AT THE AIR RACES

    September 19, 2015 Author: Dan McGee
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    National Championship Air Races - Chiwami Takagi-Read heads to the sky.

    Women at the Air Races covers a broad spectrum of involvement. From pilots, to controllers, to crew members, to journalists; here is an article about two of them. STEAD AIRPORT – This year the Sport Class has been growing and one of the new rookie pilots is Chiwami Takagi-Read. She’s racing the plane owned by Richard Ogg although its his name listed in the program. “I’ve been in aviation since 1995 and was a helicopter pilot first, now I’m an instructor and teach from private to ATP,” she said. “When I was a little child I always wanted to fly,

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  • FASTEST PILOTS AT THE AIR RACES

    September 18, 2015 Author: Dan McGee
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    National Championship Air Races - Rick Vandam laid down the fastest lap during qualifying.

    Fastest pilots at the Air Races put down ripping laps during qualifying. And now here they are. STEAD – Now that everyone had raced its time to introduce the fast qualifiers at this years NCAR. These are the ones that everyone wants to catch and pass. Fastest of all is Rick Vandam, who flies a L-39 jet and posted his fast lap at 491.036 mph. He bumped Sean Cushing off the pole on the final morning of qualifying. “Qualifying went great, did a little work on the airplane and it went faster. It was windy and bumpy but everyone had

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  • AIR RACES: WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16

    September 16, 2015 Author: Dan McGee
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    Air Race report for Wednesday had two changes due to late qualifying and everyone at Stead Airport had to deal with a windy and cool to cold day. STEAD – Competitors, crews, volunteers and spectators were greeted by blustery, cool to cold weather today. Still the day went on with some revisions as the National Championship Air Races got underway. First up in the morning was the final time for racers to qualify or post better times. And this caused an upset in one class while another pilot improved his times over the one set Monday. Sean Cushing has posted

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  • TRAGEDY AT THE AIR RACES

    September 8, 2014 Author: Dan McGee
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    Stead Airport (Monday, Sept. 8) Tragedy struck the Reno National Championship Air Races this afternoon. During a qualifying session for the Sport Class there was a fatal crash. At the north end of the course the aircraft flown by Lee Behel suffered some kind of failure and went down. He was the president of the class and one of its founders. Behel’s racer was powered by a Chevy small block V-8 modified for aviation use. Behel is listed as retired and was a pilot for many years with the Nevada Air National Guard when they flew RF-4C Phantoms. And he

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