For all of you that wondered what it's like at 500mph over the desert... Here is a cockpit ride along with Steve Hinton Jr during the Gold race at Reno this year.

https://vimeo.com/75721498


My brother (on the Voodoo crew) put this together with his telemetry data.

Few notes on the data:
Note: the GPS receiver gives some erroneous data points above 3 G's. It's older tech and not designed to do what we're doing with it. Thus, I would trust the TAS on the right column for better average speeds. It's reported from the pitot-static system. GPS will give reasonable results for straight line data (Valley of speed and pylon 2-4). Also some blips in the RPM that are being looked at.. Telemetry errors, not the airplane.

Chris

Very cool! Thanks for sharing this.

Thanks for sharing!

Very cool!

That is a great composite video with all of the performance data folded in. If it weren't for the speed, the course seems pretty boring. One long left turn over some boring scenery. Actually sitting in the stands, or watching from the pits adds the deep rumbling sound of the big engines with Doppler shift as the planes go by. That is a big part of the attraction for me. For interesting visuals of the flying, I prefer the Red Bull races that combined acro over an impressive setting. Too bad those are a thing of the past.