Reno Air Races & The Great Reno Balloon Race - Videos By The University Of Nevada
Friday, September 28, 2012 at 09:08PM Sometimes I just don't understand the internet. These two videos put out by the University of Nevada have been on youtube for a week now but have hardly been viewed... but these videos are fantastic! In my opinion they should have thousands and thousands of views by now. They are apparently part of a 'This Is Nevada' project and they each showcase an awesome aviation-oriented event that takes place in Reno during the month of September. For 2012, The Great Reno Balloon Race took place September 7-9 and then the Reno Air Races of course took place September 12-16.
The production work in these videos is fabulous, with an excellent music background and near perfect editing. So I'm doing my part to try to crank up the numbers of views that these videos have. Any flavor of avgeek should be quite satisfied soaking up either the awesome speed and power of the Reno Air Races video, or the beauty of hot air balloons (the slowest of flying machines) in the video below - especially the first part of the video where they rise all aglow into to the pre-dawn sky. Wow! I think there's a pretty good chance you'll agree with me when I say that there's just something so very special about things that fly... and when a video does a great job of capturing that very special nature, you have a valuable tool to light the fires of passion in people of all ages for the amazing thing we call flight. Enjoy : )
Reader Comments (2)
Martt, I just found your post about the Air and Balloon Race videos, and I want to thank you for the complimentary words about the videos! I work for the University of Nevada Integrated Marketing department, and filmed and edited both of the videos, so I was a treat to see a full post about them. I grew up watching the air races from the fence line, so I was excited when I got the green light to make a air race video for U of N, showing off what there is do in the area for our prospective students.
We reposted the balloon race video, after trimming 30 seconds off of it. http://youtu.be/LDYFMVnIwaQ
Lee Pfalmer- It was easy for me to say good things about your videos because they really are extremely well done! Thanx for leaving the comment and keep up the great work : )