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Air Race Plane

Beautiful design. Photographer: Dana Neibert.
Crowds watch the air races in awe. Photographer: Dana Neibert.
Pilots make their way over Navy carriers to the course. Photographer: Dana Neibert.
Pilots make their way over Navy carriers to the course. Photographer: Dana Neibert.
Hannes Arch has continued his exceptional form in the Red Bull Air Race by taking first place in Qualifying for the second stop of the season in San Diego (USA). The 41-year-old topped the time sheets with a 1:18.42,...

MiG-21

This 1960's era Mig-21 was towed from it's normal hangar over to the Red Bull airfield to be put on static display for the public pitlane walk.
Nigel Lamb about to taxi out of the start up area to the runway for his 2nd qualifying run Saturday. The dark areas of the plane are not painted, rather, it is bare carbon fiber.
Empty Red Bull cans left lying around as trash? No! The astute observer will notice that the cans are laid out in the exact same pattern as the air gates on the actual race course. As far as I...
Pilots push their planes out to one of 2 start up areas located under the Red Bull control tower. They start up their engines, test the flight controls and perform other pre-flight checks. Once they are finished and they...
After putting on his g-suit, parachute and climbing ino his MXS-R plane, Matthias Dolderer gets some last minute advice before being pushed out to the warmup area.