plane crash reno disaster

scoopic.blogspot.com -Until the moment his highly changed World War II-era P-51 Mustang fighter plane shot violently upward Friday at the Reno Air Races, then slammed into the bottom, pilot Jimmy Leeward was pushing to catch the P-51 flown by Windsor resident can Whiteside.

Whiteside could be a well-known and revered Sonoma County aviator whose day job is flying the company plane owned by the Trione and Codding/Baker families. Whiteside felt Voodoo was performing simply because it required to as he and 6 different pilots raced Friday in an exceedingly preliminary heat around Reno's nearly nine-mile oval course. a bit like world-class race cars except winged and far faster, planes within the premier Unlimited category fly simply fifty to 350 feet on top of the bottom as they race around 50-foot pylons, six times round the course
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