The North American P-51 Mustang had ... into a staple of the Reno Air Races. First piloted by a United Airlines pilot and former USAF test pilot Clay Lacy, this Mustang owed its new name to ...

SPECTATOR NIGHTMARE: A World War II era P-51 Mustang disintegrates after crashing into the grandstand at a Reno, Nv. air show yesterday. A Reno, Nev., air race turned into a bloody horror show ...

A piece of airframe fell off the ill-fated P-51D Mustang before it crashed ... air frame to Jimmy Leeward's P-51 separated at the Reno National Championship Air Races as his airplane crashed.

Nearly four months after a P-51 Mustang veered out of control and slammed into spectators at the Reno, Nevada, air races – killing 11 people, injuring scores of others and jeopardizing the ...

RENO, Nev. — They came from every corner to the Nevada desert to watch the nation's premier air race ... when one of the planes in the race, a WWII-era P-51 Mustang fighter plane called The ...

Veteran stunt pilot Jimmy Leeward lost control of a P-51 Mustang, which plummeted into ... What we do know is that the air races at Reno have a deadly history, and the contest's intensity means ...

Precious Metal is a one-of-a-king P-51 ... racing planes in the world. But disaster just the unlimited class air racer as a fire broke out while it was traveling to the renowned Reno Air Races.

Dramatic new footage (below) shows the moment of impact when a souped-up P-51 Mustang crashed into the ground and exploded at the Reno air races last week, killing the pilot and nine onlookers.

RENO, Nev. — The World War II-era plane that plummeted into an air-race crowd like a missile bore little resemblance to its original self. It was rebuilt for speed, if not for stability.

Sixty-two years ago, a P-51 Mustang roared across the ... ordered military planes out of air shows and air races. In the 1960s, Reno used an old military base in the middle of the desert to ...

A P-51 Mustang has crashed into the crowd during the Reno Air Races in Nevada killing at least three people and injuring up to 75. The vintage World War II aircraft - a P-51D type Mustang ...