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 The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Racers Over Stead 2008 A Barnburner of a Year as Records fall at Stead Airport, Nevada, in September, 2008. Bill Destefani surprises them all! Jon Sharp blows away the field in Sport Class ~ exceeds the 400 mph mark in Sport Class. Curt Brown dominates in Jets. Ken Dwelle the sentimental favorite winning in AT-6. Senegal wins his first in IF1. Aberle repeats in Sport Biplane. Steve Hinton Jr. becomes the youngest pilot in the history of the Unlimited Class at age 20, flying "Sparky," Unlimited Class Race 44 (above), the Jelly Belly-sponsored North American P-51D Mustang of Brant Seghetti. Hinton Jr. may take the helm of Strega as early as 2009, if Destefani retires. Erica Simipson lost in the crash of her IF1 racer. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
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 The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Racers Over Stead 2008 Space Shuttle Commander Curt Brown blisters the course in a Viper-powered Aero Vodochody L-29 Delfin. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Racers Over Stead 2008 Action on the backcourse in the AT-6 Class as Ken Dwelle wins his first Gold. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Racers Over Stead 2008 Senegal wins his first ever IF1 Gold in Endeavor. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Racers Over Stead 2008 Aberle and Phantom go unchallenged and repeats in Sport Biplane Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Racers Over Stead 2008 "Breathtakinly Fast..." Jon Sharp and the NemesisNXT exceed expectations. Sharp proves his racers is now as fast as the Unlimiteds and the quest for speed won't stop there! Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Racers Over Stead 2008 The T-birds impress... Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Racers Over Stead 2008 Penney and Rare Bear Mayday in the Gold... Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Racers Over Stead 2008 Like Father, Like Son... ...Dan Vance wins the Silver in September Pops. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Racers Over Stead 2008 Pole Position... Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Racers Over Stead 2008 Contri~rotating Tailfeathers on Dan Martin's leased "Dago Red!" <g> Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Racers Over Stead 2008 So, that's what they look like underneath! Tony Higa, of Japan, on final approach in his Sport Biplane racer. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
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The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Critical Mass Restoration Progresses Historic Day ~ The original Hawker Sea Fury T-20 that became Critical Mass, the highlly-modified Hawker Sea Fury Race 10, flown by Tom Dwelle in the Unlimited Class of Air Racing. The aircraft seen above is shown in civil markings as "D-FOTE" and later became D-COTE. The T-20s were utilized for flight training and target towing duties for the Luftwaffe. Regarding our corrections to the caption above and below... Note From Ken Dwelle: "One small correction to the first photo Mark. The registration was D-FOTE from 1958-1963 and you can read that on the bottom of the wing in the snow photo. After 1963 it was D-COTE. The other thing is that I don't think the Luftwaffe operated the Sea Furies, it was German company named: Deutsche Luftfahrt-Beratungsdienst (DLB)." Note 2 ~ Added by Thomas Genth: "Ken is right, the things are a little bit complicated ! The aircraft were bought by the German government, but operated by civil companies. At the time the D-COTE photo was taken, they worked for the Deutsche Luftfahrt Beratungsdienst (DLB). Later on it was the Rhein Flugzeugbau and actually a company called Ice Air is operating a fleet of Pilatus PC9 target tugs for the Luftwaffe doing the same thing .... But it is true, they were never official Luftwaffe aircraft and there was only one trainer and the other 16 Mk 20 were all fitted with the winch for target towing!" For more on the German Civil Sea Furys/Furies and their disposition, including those converted to Air Racing, see: Thomas Genth's Sea Fury website: http://www.thomasgenth.de/SeafuryD/indexeng.html This particular website includes the Genth family history with the Luftwaffe, including the WWII and post-War eras. Photo: Thomas Genth |
The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News! Click Here For: Critical Mass Restoration Progresses The Dwelle Family and Nella Oil have been busy as of late! |
The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Critical Mass Restoration Progresses Fuselage in jig, December, 2007 Photo: Ken Dwelle |
The Home Pylon.Com Air Racing News Critical Mass Restoration Progresses Racing Days ~ Business end of the Hawker Super Sea Fury racer, Critical Mass, Race 10, powered by a Wright 3350 engine. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
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 Rare Bear on climbout from Nellis AFB, Nevada, with John Penney at the controls, during Aviation Nation 2002. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 Ray Cote's historic racing plane, "Shoestring," Race 16, which was developed during the Goodyear Midget days of the Post WWII 1940s and campaigned into the 1980s, before being retired to the Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 The World's Most Famous P-51 Mustang in action ~ Brent Hisey's Race 11, "Miss America." Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 IF1 Racing Plane "Jimi Jam," Race 88. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 Chris Rounds and the Red Knight on a Photo Pass over Northern Nevada. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 Jimmy Doolittle and the Curtiss R2C Schneider Cup Racer. Photo: NASA / Langley |
 The Canadian Snowbirds Jet Demonstration Team Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 Jim Wright and the Hughes H-1 Racer Replica. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 Wayne Cartwright on the course in Six Shooter, the AT-6 Texan Class Race 44. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 Supermarine S6 Racer Replica at the Santa Monica Museum of Flying Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 Patricia Sharp ~ one half of the NemesisNXT Air Racing Team (Jon would tell you "the better half;" Patricia would tell you "Jon") ~ working with one of the NemesisNXT kitplane racers and sport aircraft under production at Mojave, California. The aircraft Patricia is working on ~ Ship 3 ~ has already been delivered, built, flown and campaigned in Sport Class Air Racing by Kevin Eldridge, of San Luis Obispo, California, and in 2007, won the AirVenture Cup race between Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 Jon Sharp ~ the other half of the NemesisNXT Air Racing Team ~ hard at work on the NemesisNXT production line at Mojave, California. The aircraft he's working on, the NemesisNXT prototype, has already flown and with Jon at the controls, won two back-to-back National Championships in the Sport Class of Air Racing. Kevin Eldridge's NXT placed in the same races. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 Sport Biplane Class Race 77, Smith Miniplane "Rich's Brew," campaigned by Rich Beardsley. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 Bob Button's American Spirit, an L-39 of the Jet Class in Air Racing. Seen at Aviation Nation during the Boyd Gaming Las Vegas Style Air Racing demonstrations that are forerunners to World Class Air Racing at Mesquite, Nevada. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
 Goodyear F2G Super Corsair Race 57, which won the Thompson Trophy in the late 1940s with Cook Cleland at the controls; still racing as of 2007 with Bob Odegaard manning the helm. Photo: M. Daniels / ILIPS Group International |
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