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Jimmy Leeward pilots the Doug Matthews owned Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair during the 2009 Reno National Championship Air Races Unlimited Bronze finals. Jimmy finished the race in 4th position at a speed of 323.395 miles per hour. The Corsair is best known as a Marine Corps World War II era fighter that served with distinction in the Pacific Theatre.

It all started when I was about 5 or 6 years old and I got my hands on a well used Kodak Brownie Target Six-20. I would wander the neighborhood, carefully selecting the 12 exposures, and then run the roll of black and white 620 film to the Fotomat in the parking lot of the nearby grocery store to get it processed. I eventually progressed to a Kodak 110 Instamatic, that I earned by selling newspaper subscriptions, and then in 1977 my parents gave me an Olympus OM-1 SLR for Christmas. The OM-1 opened up a whole new world for me. It was a real camera and felt solid in my hands, but it was also a completely manual camera. No autofocus. No autoexposure. It forced me to learn the relationship between shutter speeds and f-stops, how to control...