The “wide panorama” was certainly on the plan I saw earlier this year.. Has there been a more recent update?

Thanks MM. I think I’m getting confused with the one that won in 2015 wearing an odd brown and cream camouflage scheme. I think it might have had an incident shortly thereafter but good to see British designs doing well at Reno.

Great shots. Nothing prepares you for the noise as they come round the pylon on to the finishing straight on the first lap of the Gold Final. One P-51 at full throttle (plus a bit) is great but four or five is absolutely awesome. Throw in a couple of large American radials and it’s aviation nirvana.

The VC 10 is still a great looking aircraft, especially in that colour scheme. Great photos, thanks.

At the risk of thread drift but doesn’t that colour scheme accentuate the lines of the Spitfire. I wish someone was brave enough to do something similar today rather than the drab camouflage which breaks up the lines of so many of the “fliers”. Back on thread i was lucky enough to get a flight in the Twin Pin at the launch of the Avro RJ at Duxford some years ago. Lovely rumbly old thing but a bit”just postwar” inside. Still it was always intended to be a utility aircraft and the take-off was something else.

The Air Britain book has it being produced by Swearingen as a pressurised Comanche. It had a 260 hp Lycoming,TwinCom landing gear, Comanche tail and wings and a new fuselage. First flight 11/3/67 but crashed on takeoff from Lock Haven 23/3/67 when the pilot had problems with the electric nosewheel. The project was then cancelled and removed from the Register in 1969. Pity as Hooligan says, it looked like an early Malibu.

Excellent shots and good music too!