Reno 2004 "Big Bossman" Practice and Qualifying

Mike Brown brought his beautiful Grumman F7F-3P Tigercat back to Reno for 2004 and posted a well respected 363 mph qualifying speed.
Also, later in the week during qualifying, Brian Sanders was preparing for an afternoon flight when unfortunately the right main wheel failed on him as he was turning into the run-up area. Included in the video is the wheel change and taxi back to the ramp with a late evening high power run up with flames coming out of the exhaust stacks.

[@SuperMarioMustang]

Awesome! And no overwhelming background noise from an engine runup for the majority of the video like last time 😂

[@timothyroth8073]

Beautiful !

[@YZ250W1]

Thank you! Nice kitty!

[@_lliu3oqppehu9l_83]

😍

[@chunkblaster]

Are they doing the races this year with covid? Id love to go see this stuff first hand

[@Voodoo1650]

As of now, yes airrace.org/

[@joeblow5037]

You can't get any sexier that that. 👱‍♀
*unless it comes with a BLT 🥪🥓