2010 Thunder Mustang crash at Reno races

Liberator · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:11 am **Posts:** 837

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... e=1&ref=nf

Bad crash of a "Mustang" at Reno in 2010 - a friend of mine has said Reno has had some bad years recently.. and 2010 i recall he said was one of them?

P51Mstg · **Joined:** Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:36 am **Posts:** 1202

THUNDER Mustang crash. Lost it on landing, VERY VERY windy, they cancelled the last few races.... Sharp airplane...

Mark H

rc38pilot · **Posted:** Sat Mar 09, 2013 11:00 pm

I was on the race crew,was very glad to see george walk away from Rapid Travel !!!!Part of the wing still hangs in my office...George still attends the races every year working on the Blue Thunder and Picabo race teams...

Wildchild · **Posted:** Sat Mar 09, 2013 11:02 pm

For one, can we get the topic changed to 2010 Mustang crash at Reno? kind of scared me...

And I actually like the idea of having Thunder Mustang's or Kit Mustangs with V12's race at Reno. If they crash, build another one. It's not like you lost a actual '51 airframe.

bombadier29 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:17 pm **Posts:** 272

Nothing to do with warbirds at all.

I was in the jet pits when it happened. It was an impressive accident and he was lucky to have gotten alive.

Dave Downs · **Posted:** Sun Mar 10, 2013 8:04 am

Don't read the comments unless you want your blood pressure to take a dramatic rise........the internet is wonderful place...sometimes

And please change the title to add the date and clarify that is was a Thunder Mustang

Sabremech · **Posted:** Sun Mar 10, 2013 8:48 am

I don't understand all the sensitivity with the title of this thread. Unless you think the Reno Races were held recently, it doesn't take much to figure this out. If it scares you, don't read it.
David

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Sun Mar 10, 2013 9:24 am

Doesn't scare me at all.
The images and story have been recently flying around Facebook so it was the first thing I thought of when I saw this old piece of news.
My opinion is the posting is in the wrong location and should have been posted in "Air Racing, Air Show, and General Aviation" also, it is NOT a warbird, so it really shouldn't be posted in the Hangar.
I'm very glad he survived the crash.
Jerry

Dave Downs · **Posted:** Sun Mar 10, 2013 9:49 am

Sabremech wrote:

I don't understand all the sensitivity with the title of this thread. Unless you think the Reno Races were held recently, it doesn't take much to figure this out. If it scares you, don't read it.
David

I know when Reno is raced - I thought it might have been an up-date to 'Galloping Ghost'

And no, it doesn't scare me - I've had the unfortunate experience of watching a friend die in an airplane.

Glyn2 · **Joined:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:51 pm **Posts:** 4

No kidding - the knee jerking "please change the title" responses never cease to amaze me. Why people are so insistent on having all such threads marked with the date etc is very puzzling. Once you open the thread and read the content you are able to discern the details - we don't need the title to be so complete that there is no need to read the thread. For the two seconds between when you read the thread title until you are able to click on it may be a time fraught with angst and despair but once the page loads you're ok again. Lighten up people!

Iclo · **Posted:** Sun Mar 10, 2013 11:38 am

Putting a correct and detailed title, take what ? 10 extra seconds ?

When performing a search on a board having enough information in the title of a post to know if the post could contains valuable information or not, is relevant.

But of course Liberator/Daniel has a long history on various boards to post useless informations, more generally a simple link to youtube or facebook, with in the good days 2 lines of comments.

I wonder what is the opinion of the majority of the members of this board about this kind of post and posters ?

Matt Gunsch · **Posted:** Sun Mar 10, 2013 11:40 am

it is very simple why we ask to change a title, WE FLY THESE PLANES, When we see a headline like this, we wonder if someone we know just died

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10563&hilit=Words+not+to+use+in+your+subject+line&sid=7bcae3849745edcf46f7990dc7d5f28d#p93651

Sopwith · **Joined:** Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:49 pm **Posts:** 551

Iclo wrote:

Putting a correct and detailed title, take what ? 10 extra seconds ?

When performing a search on a board having enough information in the title of a post to know if the post could contains valuable information or not, is relevant.

But of course Liberator/Daniel has a long history on various boards to post useless informations, more generally a simple link to youtube or facebook, with in the good days 2 lines of comments.

I wonder what is the opinion of the majority of the members of this board about this kind of post and posters ?

Totally agree with you Iclo,this seems true to form of Daniel/Liberator.I don't uderstand where he's coming from with his posts.A bit more introduction other than a sentence at most would be in order,but then I guess we are all different.

WIXMOD-Charlie · **Joined:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:53 am **Posts:** 256

Thread title changed

maxum96 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 10, 2013 2:09 pm

Impressive pictures of the accident. But check the guys other pictures on his Facebook account. Awesome pictures he has.

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