Little more airplane stuff

[opos]

Found this video taken at Reno...I had a friend, the late Ed Browning that campaigned the old dual prop highly modified '51 at Reno...Steve Hinton flew it...they set the world close course piston aircraft record in '79 at just a tic under 500 mph..and they also crashed at Reno with an engine failure..didn't kill Hinton but came real close...This video is fairly recent.."Rare Bear" is my favorite and has been for some time..wonderful organization campaigns that one.

https://youtu.be/wDpi2esvm4M

Second video is the old footage of the Baron RB51 and the world speed record runs

https://youtu.be/58wb-fAW8nQ

 

[Fox Mike]

They are great! The RR Merlins are OK but I love the sound of those old radials.

 

[gramps]

Beautiful planes. Lucky Steve Hinton that got to fly RB!
gramps

 

[tinman]

Thanks to a friend who thought it would be entertaining to scare the bejesus outta me many years a ago, I am not a "little" airplane kinda guy.....but after seeing one of these in Seattle last month, I am ready to go get a license to fly. The one I saw had a Corvette engine fitted.

https://youtu.be/aarkJyi0Ghk