Photo Album: "Custom Built Unlimited Class Racers"

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Photo ID: 0535537

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Sandberg-Boland Tsunami

Reno - Reno-Stead (RTS)
USA - Nevada, September 9, 1991

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N39JR (cn 001) "Tsunami", a custom built Unlimited class racer is seen in the pits at the Reno Air Races. This aircraft was designed by Bruce Boland for air racing and despite the similarity in appearance, is not a modification of a P-51 Mustang. The aircraft was powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin and was very fast. Despite this, it only won one Unlimited Gold Race (in Sherman Texas in 1990). It was destroyed in a crash several months after this picture was taken, killing the owner, John Sandberg.

Photo ID: 0763382

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North American/Rogers P-51R

Reno - Reno-Stead (RTS)
USA - Nevada, September 1997

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N57LR (cn 87-1002) "Miss Ashley II" in the pits at the 1997 Reno Air Races. Bill Rogers built this Unlimited class racer by combining the fuselage of a P-51 Mustang (built from plans obtained from NASM) with the wings and horizontal tail of a Lear Jet 23 (cn 23-018). The aircraft was powered by a Rolls Royce Griffon with counter rotating propellers, taken from an Avro Shackleton patrol bomber. Miss Ashley II was destroyed in a crash at the Reno Air Races in 1999 and its pilot Gary Levitz was killed.

Photo ID: 0789040

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Scaled Composites 158 Pond Racer

Reno - Reno-Stead (RTS)
USA - Nevada, September 9, 1991

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N221BP (cn 001) The Pond Racer during its first appearance at the Reno Air Races. This was an Unlimited Class racer designed around two 1000 hp Electromotive-Nissan VG-30 3-liter GTP engines, which ran on methanol. The aircraft was destroyed in a forced landing crash on September 14th 1993, killing pilot Rick Brickert.

Photo ID: 1583584

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Greenamyer Shockwave

Reno - Reno-Stead (RTS)
USA - Nevada, September 14, 2009

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Darryl Greenamyer's uncompleted Unlimited Class racer on display at the Reno Air Races. This racer combines the outer wing panels of a Sea Fury with a new centersection and fuselage. The tail is from a F-86 Sabre and it is planned to be powered by a P&W R-4360.

Photo ID: 1187070

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Cornell-Jackson American Spirit

Ione - Eagle's Nest Airport (CA20)
USA - California, February 28, 2007

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This Unlimited Class racer combines the wings and tail of a T-2 Buckeye with an F-100 nose gear and an all-new center fuselage. Powered by a R-3350 driving a three-bladed prop made up out of Electra blades in a C-130A hub. Construction started in 1993, but the project has been on hold since funds ran out several years later.