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As I recall, the whole race record is 503 which is moving for a piston powered prop aircraft. Qualifying laps are faster than the whole race. They can only hold up for a while when pumping all that Nitrous at supercharger pressures 3 times normal. We have missed the last several races so I am...

Don't be sorry about the round verses in-line! That's what made the Reno Air races so fun (and, I think radials held the most wins over the 18 years we attended.)

I took the time to do some online searching and the Beech D18 tricycle conversion was done by Volpar. Later this was a factory option I guess as I found a currently for sale D18 trigear that is being represented as original. I found a photo with no details of a DC 3 with triple turbo prop...

The only tricycle gear DC 3 that I saw was a photo in a magazine article that dealt mostly with trigear conversions of D18's. Personally, I have seen only a handful of turboprop conversions. This was back in the late 60's when I was trying to convince my wife that we needed a plain old D 18 to...

I vote for a DC 3. The "N" number N4008 was assigned to a Waco in 1975 and that appears to be a current registration. The British got lots of the C47 production in WWII and those were know as "Dakota's". Because of the large production for WWII and post war, these planes were plentiful and cheap...