SATISFYINGANEEDFOR
RENO PYLON RACING SEMINAR DRAWS PILOTS
SEARCHING FOR A UNIQUE CHALLENGE
BY DAVE HIGDON
RENO—The landscape here could fit into a Fighter Weapons School training scene
from the movie Top Gun: desert pinks and shades of brown with snow-streaked
washes on high mountain peaks, framed by patches of green nearer the valley floor where airplanes skim the landscape—roaring past at speeds ranging from
more than 200 mph to near the 500-mph mark.