By Tom McNerney Photo by Bruce Croft TwoZeroWest.com Jeff LaVelle back to his winning ways once again, sets new Qualifying and average race speed records at the 2014 Reno Air Races in his Glasair III.  Jeff now holds the new Sport Class Qualifying record of 409.812 mph!  And to top that off, during Heat 3A on Saturday Jeff posted a new record for average race speed over 6 laps of 403.227 mph!  Simply amazing.  The time preparing his Glasair III certainly has paid off as the airplane spent the majority of the week completely cowled up ready to go.  That is something not very common at the Gold level of racing and says a lot about how well he has the airplane running. Congratulations to Jeff and we hope to learn some of his secrets for next year!

David Robinson, Pilot of Sport Class aircraft “Race 92” (Pilot Page HERE) is proud to announce securing a corporate sponsor for the 2014 Reno Air Race. While at Oshkosh this year, the race team solidified a full sponsorship with Redbird Flight Simulations, an industry leading flight training and simulation company. Redbird Flight Simulations was established in 2006 with the specific purpose making simulation more accessible to the general aviation industry. Since its inception Redbird has delivered innovative, reliable and high-quality training devices to flight schools, colleges, universities and individual pilots around the world. With more than 800 devices in service worldwide, Redbird has quickly become the fastest growing and most innovative simulator provider in the industry. Redbird has continued to expand their company and scope, and have quite literally begun to shape the way flight training is conducted. From the simulator, to their full service flight school, they are a first class technology and training company. This will be the Redbird Chief Pilot, Jerry Gregoire’s first time to visit the Reno Air Races, and we are honored to have the first visit include a sponsorship. Look for Redbird Racing Team at the Sport Class Pit hangar this year. We are excited to see everyone in Reno. Visit the Redbird web site at http://www.redbirdflightsimulations.com

Press release: For immediate release. “Blue Thunder II Crew Report” Wednesday, July 02, 2014 www.BlueThunderAirRacing.com It has been too long since you have received any information about Blue Thunder II and the crew. In our last report we had installed a new data recorder and preparing for the Mojave Experimental Fly-In. You have all heard about the events at Mojave in other publications and our experience was quite successful. I used the trip down and back as a test to see how we can do in the AirVenture Cup Race on July 27th we can review the results at the Oshkosh Convention.