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Precious Metal to miss Reno Air Races...maybe forever
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09-08-2015, 11:32 PM
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Awful bad luck. Hopefully someone rebuilds it.
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Really sucks - I'm glad someone saw it and was able to alert him before it got out of hand and in a situation he may not have gotten out of!
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09-09-2015, 03:35 AM
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I am certainly no aviation expert... but I did see a documentary about how they are starting to build smaller/lighter airplanes for this type of racing... I love the old WWII warbirds but maybe it is time we saved them for air shows and pulled them out of racing?
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I saw Precious Metal last year after Reno at Deer Valley airport (KDVT), on a fuel stop on its way home. Gorgeous plane, it'll be rebuilt.
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IIRC, wasn't that the idea behind 'Pond racer' (a Burt Rutan design)?
It used two turbo Nissan V6 motors. Found it.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Pond_Racer
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I think Thom Richard was understandably over-dramatic with his prediction that PM is out of racing for good. He had just narrowly missed being killed in a possible fuel tank explosion, or a sudden fuel fire on takeoff, so let's wait and see what the owner wants to do with the airplane once they can get a good look at it. Racers are worth a lot more money converted back to stockers (with over-perfect paint and all the WWII accessories and gee-gaws added) so that could be where they decide to go. It was a Whittington creation back in the '80s so if it's going to be put back to stock there may be a lot more work to do.
By the way, he used to be Richard Thom and then he changed it around.
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09-09-2015, 11:22 AM
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Can you imagine them running the Indy 500 in these? 
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There is no money to be made developing racing aircraft. Aircraft developement and certification is stupendously expensive, without a market for the product no one is going to start building racers. Big difference building a track car purpose built for racing and doing the same with an aircraft.
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Nemesis NXT Official Internet Site Probably one of the big hurdles in Unlimited class is lack of big engines. Who makes V-12 airplane engines these days?
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