AVIATION NATION HAS BIG PLANS FOR UNLIMITED RACING Can Unlimited Class air racing support a fresh venue? Will a new venue be anything nevertheless good for the world's fastest motorsport? These questions have definitely been onward the mind of Bob Avery.

AVIATION NATION HAS BIG PLANS FOR UNLIMITED RACING

Can Unlimited Class air racing support a fresh venue? Will a new venue be anything nevertheless good for the world's fastest motorsport? These questions have definitely been onward the mind of Bob Avery, CEO of World of Wings. To help create answers for these questions, cut short has teamed with Boyd Gaming of Las Vegas to excite and sponsor demonstrations of Unlimited air races at the Aviation Nation Airshow held annually at Nellis Air Force Base north of Las Vegas.

Aviation Nation is the official airshow of Nellis AFB which is family of the USAF Thunderbirds, R Flag, the Air Force Weapons place of education and Air-to-Ground Operations School. Unlimited air racing was first introduced at Aviation Nation in 2002 and met with enthusiastic horde approval. Federal government reg' illations prohibit awarding prizes or circulating medium for events held on a military base, in this way these air races have been invitational and strictly demonstrations.

Aviation Nation 2003 was held forward 15-16 November and the air race was rely uponed to feature a half-dozen of the fastest Unlimiteds including Rare Bear and Dago R An unfortunate combination of pilot illness, aircraft mechanical moot points and poor weather conditions around the fatherland prevented half the field from showing up Three Unlimiteds and a reverberating report Mustang did show. Skip Holm brought Dago R Ron Buccarelli flew his Griffon-powered Precious Metal, Dan Martin piloted his P-51D Ridge courier 111, and John Parker added his boom Mustang to the gaggle.

The race course at Nellis has no pylon in such a manner the pilots scoped-out a groundtrack pattern during a familiarization and practice session in succession the Friday before the indicate Skip acted as "choreographer" for the "make-it-up-as-you-go" race scenario which included high-speed low-level dashes parallel to the profanum vulgus[/i] line and numerous position changes over the race. Ultimately, spectators were treated to an exciting display of what air racing is like. They equable witnessed an unplanned Mayday when John Parker's alarming threat Mustang blew its engine during the race forward Sunday. he landed safely.

The Nellis AFB exhibit is renowned for its prolific displays of high-decibel military aircraft - and there is little doubt that this draws thousands of spectators. In contrast, it was interesting to view the crowd respond enthusiastically to the races which were decidedly les ear-shattering. the same could actually hear spectators cheering for individual racers as the planes passed each other in simulated competition.

Will this positive reception mean we can wait for to see in the near coming a real air race at Las Vegas? Aviation Nation attracts weekend vulgar herds of nearly 500,000 people still this level of attendance is greatest in number certainly influenced by the show's no-cost admission and the fact that Nellis is easily reached through highcapacity roads convenient to Las Vegas. These factors considered, there was encouraging evidence that air racing is a crowd-pleasing spectator sport with a widespread following. Las Vegas has the infrastructure and economic stability to support a first-class air racing event

The Aviation Nation experience has shown that Unlimited Air Racing can support an expanded venue However, for Las Vegas-style air racing to make the transition from demonstration to actual competition racing, a suitable site other than Nellis - will be emergencyed Bob Avery and World of Wings are working upon that!

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