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events like this? and have there been recent events at air races that should make us worry about them in terms of their safety? well, this is really the only type of air race of its kind in the world. there are other types of high-speed events, the redbull pylon racing. this type of race is really one of a kind. there have been a lot of safe guards built into this racing over the years from lessons learned from past incideacciden. you can never mitigate the risk to zero because, you know, when you have an aircraft moving at 400, 500 miles an hour, things happen very quickly. the altitude of the aircraft is very low. so any kind of reaction time that the pilot may have or if you have a mechanical problem may not allow the safety margins that are typically built into the normal part of the racing course. we re told that this was a vintage aircraft that crashed. a p-51 mustang.

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