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Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Sun Sep 15, 2013 7:44 pm

Stevo in "Voodoo" takes the gold !!!
2nd - Strega
3rd - Czech Mate
4th - Rare Bear
5th - Precious Metal

Steven is such a class act !!! After 4 straight wins in "Strega" - the talk all week has been - "Is it the plane or the pilot"... Well Steven was asked this question in a post race interview which he calmly replied "Neither - it's the crew"... For 2013 it's safe to say Purple is the new Red !!! Way to go Team Voodoo !!!

Re: Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:42 pm

Rare Bear hasn't had a good showing for a while. Any idea(s) as to why?

Re: Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:37 am

Was sure a surprise to see Czech Mate pass Rare Bear on Saturday. Not sure if the off season work in TX still hasn't been dialed in yet. Strega and Voodoo are faster IMO but it does seem like the Bear lost a step

232 will be going to Ione at 65 mph on the same trailer that brought Bear to Reno after ingesting a section of the intake trunk just after taking the white flag yesterday. Apparently some bits of composite lodged in the carb forcing it to run lean - 2 pretty loud bangs followed; must have really gotten Hoot's attention. Sounds like there was metal in the screens when they pulled them today.

Good clean safe race today, but one wonders what it would have been like if Strega hadn't busted the course line in Friday's Silver. She lapped most of the field twice :shock:

Would have put her in Saturday's Gold, where she presumably would have done what she did today putting Voodoo & Strega in the 1 & 2 spots for the final. Oh well, maybe next year.

Re: Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:12 am

Was there anything awesome in the RR Heritage/vintage parking area this year?

August

Re: Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:16 am

k5083 wrote:Was there anything awesome in the RR Heritage/vintage parking area this year?

August


Some of the regulars and some nice new ones. Will start posting pics when I get home tomorrow - sorry to say I didn't even hear who won

Re: Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:31 pm

Watched it live streaming thru the RARA website link, pretty cool. Czech Mate is running a R 2800, and it's a light aircraft. The race sounded awesome.I found it Sunday and I think it streamed Fri. to Sunday, Watched football and a air race.

Re: Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:28 pm

To view a selection of my photos from the event go to...
https://www.facebook.com/AerialVisuals

Some of the photos were taken with the phone and uploaded on the field in real time, so please forgive the poor quality.

Mike

Re: Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Tue Sep 17, 2013 4:59 am

Well done also to Matt Jackson for driving Strega into a 2nd place....

Matt was so polite to Stevie at the end of the race too showing good sportsmanship..

Re: Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:38 am

darn, did not even know the races were this past weekend. Good for Stevie. Not a good result for Precious Metal, but they had a stock motor yes?

Chappie

Re: Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Tue Sep 17, 2013 4:50 pm

Precious Metal has a Griffon engine turning 2- 3blade counterotating props, standard for a Shackleton bomber.

Re: Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:30 pm

Chappie wrote:darn, did not even know the races were this past weekend. Good for Stevie. Not a good result for Precious Metal, but they had a stock motor yes?

Chappie


Yes stock motor for Precious Metal. It was reported that the race engine had problems so they scrambled to get the stock motor back in to compete. Even though I am a fan of the Bear and I will keep my comments to myself and leave them to those who know more on this years performence (Bring the P3 prop back). I am impressed with PM and the recent article printed on its new owner. I will certainly keep tabs on that one. I really do hope that someone picks up where Jimmy Leeward left off with the Galoping Ghost idea. With the boil off system to have no radiator scoop, wow there looked to be some potential there but im no Engineer.

Re: Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:42 pm

Chappie wrote: Not a good result for Precious Metal, but they had a stock motor yes?

Chappie


Well, there's stock and there's stock. They did sieze a main bearing in the race motor just before Reno, but according to one of the pit crew there was no damage to the case. They had a "Ferry Motor" that was pretty much already in pieces and they set about immediately rebuilding the race motor with ferry motor parts. In the photo below, the red parts are race motor and the yellow are ferry, but it was much better than a stock Griffin:

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There was blue painter's tape on the prop that said "Move Prop and Die" :)

The more I hear about Thom Richard, the more impressed I am. Apparently the sealed cockpit gets to 110F, even at altitude; he has a 10-hour trip to get to Reno from Kissimmee which he does in 5 2-hour legs. He wears a cooling suit but it only operates for about 1 hour at a time.

Last year, when the gear door blew off, it apparently made a pretty clean break and was easily repaired. I asked if they could have continued the race, but after the door departed, the 480 mph airflow across the opening pressurized the wing to the point where the skins were "oilcanning" :shock:

I hear next year they plan to install one of these:

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(Apparently someone has a ton of R-4360 parts and time - the 2-piece row cases all bolt together indefinitely and look perfect. Then it's just a nose case on one end and the accessory case on the back. There was no crank, and the jugs were just sitting on the studs.)

Re: Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:48 pm

k5083 wrote:Was there anything awesome in the RR Heritage/vintage parking area this year?

August


Some of the Heritage Trophy entries:

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Of course I voted for the 'poon. Still didn't hear who won, and I couldn't tell from the RARA site.

Need to upload the rest - more to come.

Re: Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Tue Sep 17, 2013 10:38 pm

Thanks for the details on the PM engine issue. I bet once they get it tweaked, its going to be a serious runner.

Re: Steve Hinton Jr. - 5 Time Champion !!!

Wed Sep 18, 2013 1:03 am

For what it is worth the National Aviation Heritage Invitational results were:

Antique-Interstate Cadet
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Classic-Aeronca Chief
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Warbird-Spitfire
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Large and Peoples Choice-G111
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Grand Champion-Beech D-18S
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I heard that Clay Lacy's P-51 was hit by lightening on Saturday evening and it left a hole in the wing. A photographer said he got a great shot of the Mustang with said bolt attached to the wing and a rainbow in the background.
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