Piston motor of Pacific American Airlines newlyl converted all freighter, the Douglas DC-6B/F "Bullet II." Note the gold-painted DC-7 speed fairing over the hub.

The Chino Planes of Fame Air Museum / Fighter Rebuilders Team at work flight testing the Pond / Rutan racer at Ontario Airport, California, before Reno in the early 1990s.

Medal of Honor winner Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington signing autographs at the 1981 Reno Air Races. Boyington has since made The Great Passage and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac from Washington, D.C. Boxer Joe Louis and Actor Lee Marvin are buried in the same section.

A Formula One race prepares to get underway at Reno in 1981. From left to right, Gary Wilson, in Aloha, Race 71; Jon Sharp in Bilbo; Jim Miller in Texas Gem, Race 73; Dusty Dowd in Race 5; Tom Summers, in Race 35, "Sump 'N Else; and Eldon Lutz's The Flying Dutchman, Race 38.

Lyle Shelton's take off run for qualification at the 1976 California National Air Races at Mojave, California. Fresh from paint, the aircraft would belly land after this takeoff putting Shelton out of Air Racing for the next few years. The aircraft now known as Rare Bear, was campaigned as "The Spirit of '77," Race 77. the three-toned purple paint scheme was designed by Artist Virgil Austin, who painted the beautiful mural at USARA's Van Nuys, California, headquarters, in the late 1970s.

Rocky Hartland's rare North American Lark at the USARA Spring Symposium, at Mojave, California, in April, 1977. The aircraft was called "Playmate IV," and was last seen by the Editor in the 1990s while in derelict condition at Whiteman Airpark, in California's San Fernando Valley.

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