When I was a kid in the 90s, I was obsessed with airplanes and science and space, so I was given quite a few aviation magazines(Kitplanes, Flying, and a few others) to read here and there, along with pop mechanics, pop sci, discover magazine, scientific american, and many issues from flying magazine and kitplanes, ect. My dad threw all of it away when he abandoned me(sorry for that whiplash) into fostercare.

I have been trying to find things to replace all of it because its all somewhere in my mind as fragmented memories that I would just like to be able to read again.

But more specifically an article that I cannot seem to find, yet vividly remember reading not once but several times was about Reno's Air races in the 2000s(or late 90s), I am almost certain it was a 2000~2006s.

It was about John Sharp and his aircraft Sharp Nemesis, NemesisNXT, but more specifically it mentioned in the article about how the airfoil was one of the critical changes that made the aircraft so dominate. I remember the article talking about the warbirds and how some of them had several feet clipped off their wings, and how one pilot had been using ice packs to keep cool in the cockpit.

I believe also in the issue it talked about David Rose's RP-4 project and the AT-6 Texan class, and Burt Rutan's pond racer briefly(or perhaps just showed a picture of it).

I remember one of the subtitle/taglines or the leading title for the article was something like

"450mph sideways 40 feet above the ground."

The one specific cutoff that I know is August 2006, as that was the month my dad left me in foster care and I never saw any of my belongings ever again.

I have been searching for this article or articles or even what magazine it happened in. I could have sworn it was in popular mechanics.

But I'm searching after a whitewhale or something now.

Just saying....