Unlimited Air Racer 'Voodoo' Heat 3A with mayday landing.

[@octane130]

Simply the best Reno Air Race video I've ever seen! Just great. Thanks!

[@ponycarfan]

I was there when that happened.... unforgettable. Awesome job this time, as well, Will!

[@ianutube22]

That altitude gain was amazing.

[@leokov]

Thanks for the fast reply voodoo, you are all involved in a fantastic enterprise.

[@Voodoo1650]

sking0369 Voodoo with Will Whiteside at the controls was third from the poll and quickly jumped into second behind Strega at the start of the race, just before going around pylon 4 on lap 4 Voodoo's engine broke a valve, Will used his speed and turned it into altitude so he could position himself for a mayday landing on runway 14.

[@kevinstone9638]

thats a pilot. He remembered the most important thing fly the damn plane.

[@Voodoo1650]

Even though the valve broke the engine builders had put keepers on the valves for just this reason, this kept the vlave head from droping down into the cylinder and destroying the engine completly.

[@Voodoo1650]

Hi leokov, You are correct, during the climb he pushed over into a little negative G and the fuel vented out of the small vent out towards the wing tip.

[@sking0369]

Thanks for replying. I noted his climb to altitude trading off his airspeed, thought that was neat. In fact the whole vid was awsome, found my heart racing as I was watching.

[@CubisticRainbow]

I was there...He had the saddest look on his face when the emergency crews and I got to him. It took hours of coaxing and a couple beers to lighten his mood. It wasn't his fault. Everyone has their bad days.

[@SeanHollingsworth]

+Kirk Petersen Tell me you got pictures of this!!! ;-) At least he did a phenomenal job piloting! :-)

[@CubisticRainbow]

+Sean Hollingsworth No I didn't get a picture of his face I was busy helping him away from the plane

[@SeanHollingsworth]

+Kirk Petersen A good man you are, sir! :-)

[@CubisticRainbow]

+Sean Hollingsworth Well the good thing is he was racing again last year...You should have seen Miss America crash, she's also a p51D Mustang it was bad but the pilot survived

[@ArchTeryx00]

It was in no way his fault. Racing engines always operate on the edge; this was a minute flaw that became a failure point. He did EVERYTHING right, including saving the plane (and more importantly, himself!) with an absolutely textbook engine-out landing. Will Whiteside should have been proud of himself, not so despondent. They ought to show this video in flight instruction classes as to how to deal with an engine emergency in flight.

[@Voodoo1650]

Hi thresher4, No Bob didn't put the plane up for sale due to the accident, he was actually going to retire in 09 but that didn't happen then it was going to be 2010 but the winds stopped the final race so he said 2011 would be it.

[@flyingtigre1]

You guys are the very best. Keep up the good work. And hope to see you win many championships. F-1

[@Voodoo1650]

@AlanMartinNala Hi Alan, The Gold heat race on Friday is 6 laps, Saturday it’s pushed to 7 and then Sundays Gold final is 8 laps, the course is 8.433 mile long and it doesn’t take them long to get around at the speeds they’re going. Depending on the size of the Unlimited field they usually run 6 to 8 planes in a race.

[@Yosemite-George-61]

Thank God there was no fire... you guys really earn your drinks... Thanks for sharing.

[@Voodoo1650]

Hi shane607384, The numbers on the upper left hand portion are IAS in mph on left, GPS in mph on right and G-force on the bottom. We go by the IAS due to the fact that when the plane is in a turn the GPS antenna drops some of the signal and it gives sporadic data.

[@h20rrl]

Good job landing the plane and staying away from the other racers.Everyone safe and thats all that matters.God speed

[@mike104740]

I don't know why they broadcast these races on TV? That would be perfect!

[@rampking1]

Watch the speed increase after, "Gentleman, you have a race" ! ( when the T-33 pulls out) Smokin' !!! Just made my day! Thank you for posting *****5*****

[@thomasfuentes9712]

Hello voodoo team! You have the most beautiful plane !! Thank you for cockpit vidéo, it's so fun!! I would like very much to join Reno air race school, but i'm french and young (19years) :(. Good flight for the futur ;)

[@anmol3457]

you must be 28 now. Happy new year.

[@nedpike2186]

Wild. He's moving himself back & forth in the cockpit to optimize CG at speed vs CG at slow.

[@peelreg]

No, I don't think so. When you see him slide forward it is an illusion. He slid the canopy back, and the camera was mounted on it.

[@MikeKobb]

Did you make it to the races this year? Strega and Voodoo sure put on a show. Too bad September Fury blew the engine up so you didn't get your other showdown, but at least the Bear was flying, if a bit slowly.

[@tomcatdrivergypsy101]

P.S. I really missed that purple, yellow, and green Mustang mixing it up with Strega this year. I think it would've been a great contest. And I hope that if in fact Voodoo makes a return, Strega will too come back for the Big 5-0 before Tiger calls it quits. I want to see an epic Gold showdown between 1.) Voodoo and Strega and 2.) September Fury and the Bear. :) Cheers.

[@thresher4]

Great,the straight dope is always best.I wonder if there was any other incidents of trim tab failures like what happened.I don't recall any I read about.

[@Alantheleopard]

ADMIRABLE footage, among other reasons because until now I have never had the chance of watching one of these races from an onboard camera. Besides, since I don´t live in the US, there are a number of things that I still don´t know about these races, such as: how many laps do pilots have to fulfill? How many participant on average per race? Around ten maybe?

[@barrymarcus9139]

Love the Bearcat and P80

[@sking0369]

I see the smoke at 6:28. What happened? Prop continued to windmill so I don't think you had lower end engine problems, head gasket??

[@Glofilter]

Rare Bear's prop is ridiculous. :)

[@kingbuzzo2509]

hah, nice. Seems like you hear the engine rpm raise just a little bit as he passes the black air craft. Is that the straw that broke the camels back so to speak?

[@thresher4]

Do to the 2011 accident,did Bob B. put the Voodoo up for sale? Great video,very good info on being able to keep the valves from grenading the engine.

[@Voodoo1650]

I still haven't heard for sure if the plane has sold yet.

[@dennisintersimone3416]

Darn!, now I need to go to voodoo donuts, Eugene Oregon

[@Voodoo1650]

@aglandcattleman Once he drops down and passes the Tigercat and the camera switches to the wing view, he then comes up on the P-51 Mustang 'Merlin's Magic', he then passes the other Tigercat just before the engine lets go.

[@leokov]

At 6:38 are you venting fuel overboard from the wingtip?

[@TheNevadasky]

Stunning!

[@soundsforsleeping365]

Wow! What a great video!

[@TacticalOni]

What happened to the engine? I know a little bit about this stuff, but I can't put my finger on it

[@Voodoo1650]

I added a link in the description to the 1998 Voodoo trim tab accident, this one was bad but the plane went straight up and didn't roll into the ground like Galloping Ghost did.

[@Voodoo1650]

@Frotax Frotax No, Bob stopped racing in the late 90's, not long after the trim tab incident that almost killed him, the pilot in this video was Will Whiteside, hew flew Voodoo for a few years before Steve Hinton took over

[@tomcatdrivergypsy101]

Sorry about coming back and bombarding you with questions, but out of curiosity, are you a fan who's channel is dedicated to Voodoo Air Racing or are/were you a member of that team? Thanks a bunch.

[@4thgenpilot]

great flying

[@tomcatdrivergypsy101]

Hi there, I saw this reply in regards to Voodoo being up for sale, and I was wondering if you knew anything about this rumor I heard that a couple weeks ago, Voodoo had been sold! Can you confirm this as true or false and/or if it will meet an unfortunate fate like Dago or will be raced again?

[@kenns9]

gear and flaps down at over 200mph!!

[@johnkamm8886]

That is flying fast baby........big boy pants are on

[@aglandcattleman]

What does he pass @ 5:59-6:00?

[@craig_sez8534]

Yeap i could here the engine pop and rpms drop..Kept her runnin just for the hydraulics i would imagine..

[@aglandcattleman]

@Voodoo1650 Ok I see it now. Thanks

[@bimmjim]

When the motor stops, your brain immediately starts doing a bunch of math even if you don't realize it. You need a new solution. Trade speed for altitude, of course. Then do the curves in your mind.

[@straighttailpilot]

Id love to have the honor of flying formation with rarebear. although hed probably stall spin crash and burn at my 182s max speed haha.

[@ArnieBarnes]

Please don't limit the Gold to the planes who have the most monies to play. RARA, please give the ones who can challenge some help. Your killing the air races.

[@utuberlesmouches]

great video, for once i do "understand" this "event" - so the glide od this Mustang seems "human" ( kind of...) no the best sailplane ever built but still a real aircraft able to reach the tarmac - weel done ! ( from this purple machine other very intersting videos available - wih anothjer break done - pilot pulling then for altitude to convert for another glide nose down for safe landing - an ecoligical demonstration for speed is life and height can be speed - ) bravo !

[@lw8249]

520 mph on a piston plane.

[@Koaslice191]

oops.

[@straighttailpilot]

what I would give to fly one of these puppies.

[@josemarcosdasilvapinto9443]

the best is thunder mustang

[@SeanHollingsworth]

When they are coming down the chute, and the T-33 pulls away. . . . No need for the little blue pill that is advertised on TV. . . . Problem solved! ;-)

[@ArnieBarnes]

I't sucks that they raised the cost of Bronze and Silver class do to politics in the rara. The class step up was a joke.

[@tomcatdrivergypsy101]

OK, thanks anyways!

[@BigWater59]

looked like a full power landing not a mayday.

[@Voodoo1650]

We actually broke a valve on this flight, the engine builders had put keepers on the valves so if they broke the parts would not fall into the cylinder and destroy the engine. Will had enough engine left to get him over the threshold and make a safe landing.

[@SeanHollingsworth]

+DerbiSenda12345 Really 'easy' to fix!! All you have to do is throw money at it . .tons and tons of money! ;-)

[@charlesr5210]

Yeah. But those engines are almost like dragster engines. They are tweaked to make gobs of power at the expense of reliability. There's also a reason why part of the circuit goes over the runways. If there's an emergency, they can climb up into a pattern similar to a military flame-out pattern and nurse their sick bird home as gently as possible.

[@martin09091989]

how dose thes keepers work? I cant imagine how ! Is there another lighter spring further down on the shaft, and a braking point above it? This would make the valve train much more heavy. How high do this engines rev?

[@pauleyplay]

Keepers ? Valve breaks, at the least the head is banging around the cylinder. What am I missing ?

[@R.Clayton]

it so much faster it looks fake lol

[@SeanHollingsworth]

+Robert Clayton Yet when you are near the ground, at one of the course pylons, they are terrifyingly fast!

[@tomasinacovell4293]

Rich MAGA At Play!