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Wings and Wheels: Utah’s Festival of Speed delights fanatics and families alike
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One other 12 months, one other superior occasion by town of Spanish Fork, Envision, and Utah County wealth administration advisor, Richard Seal. Wings and Wheels: Utah’s Competition of Velocity at all times brings out a enjoyable crowd, and this 12 months was no completely different. A number of thousand individuals have been on the Spanish Fork Airport to witness a few of the state’s quickest vehicles and most original planes in motion.
Like final 12 months I attended with my dad, a retired air site visitors controller. He’s a strolling encyclopedia for something with a motor, which made the day as instructional because it was entertaining.
A day of enjoyable
From the early morning hours of acrobatic flying to the late unique half-mile pulls, each occasion was a tribute to the very best machines of the land and sky.
“This occasion is like none different. We attempt exhausting to deliver individuals of all pursuits collectively to get pleasure from some insane vehicles, wonderful airplanes, and funky stuff they will not see wherever else, like Lamborghinis and McLarens racing airplanes with explosions happening behind them. It is superior,” stated Trevor Hoyt of Envision, one in every of Wings and Wheels’ essential organizers.
Co-organizer Richard Seal echoed Trevor’s sentiments. “Realistically, nearly anyone ought to come to the occasion and have enjoyable,” stated Seal. “It does not matter for those who’re a automobile or airplane individual. What we have tried to design is plenty of communities coming collectively to have a good time. Autocross, money days, racing, exotics, airplanes and most of the people — everybody all collectively.”
Whereas all of the vehicles, airplanes and occasions have been unimaginable, listed below are a few of our favorites from all through the day.
Unique vehicles racing an airplane
There are few sights as memorable as a 1,650-horsepower Lamborghini Huracán and a vivid orange McLaren GT capturing down the runway towards Brad Wursten in his MX2 to, actually, explosive outcomes. With explosions going off behind the trio, and Wursten inverted over the vehicles, it was an exhilarating sight to see these pace demons working in live performance collectively for the proper picture op.
Stunt flying
Brad Wursten’s aerial acrobatics have been, as at all times, top-notch and really entertaining. Between him and the brand new Prime Gun film, I would be stunned if there wasn’t an extended line of would-be pilots signed up for flight college proper now. Wursten is a Logan native, so for those who make it to the subsequent Warriors Over the Wasatch Air and House Present at Hill Air Drive Base, you are more likely to see him and his death-defying stunts once more.
Warplanes
There have been classic warplanes and WWI biplanes on show. The spotlight of the day for me was seeing the P-51 “Mormon Mustang” up shut and within the air. This legendary warplane, now owned by John Bagley in Rexburg, Idaho, was an inspiring and patriotic sight. The second you hear the Rolls-Royce Merlin 12-cylinder engine hearth up, you recognize that one thing particular is about to take to the skies. Upon its departure from the Spanish Fork airport, the pilot graciously handled the spectators to a sequence of low-altitude flybys. Listening to the roar of this traditional airplane fly overhead was one thing I am going to always remember — and maybe by no means see once more, given how few of those struggle heroes are left.
Money days and the unique automobile runway assault
The remainder of the day was filled with thrilling automotive occasions, the highlights being the money days races and top-speed unique pulls.
The money days races have been as thunderously thrilling as ever. Watching vehicles that produce properly over 1,000 horsepower blast down the taxiway at ludicrous speeds was a jaw-dropping affair. A favourite of mine was an outdated, orange Datsun 240Z full of a 6.0-liter turbocharged V8. To see a automobile that small wield an engine almost as giant because the automobile itself was nothing in need of spectacular.
The final occasion of the day was the unique automobile runway assault. With a half-mile stretch of the taxiway at their disposal, it was unimaginable to see a few of the quickest vehicles within the state obtain properly over 170 mph and even 200 mph, together with Teslas, Porsches, Lamborghinis, Audis, Camaros, Corvettes, Challengers and GT-Rs.
We’ve some world’s greatest vehicles in Utah, and this was one of many solely alternatives to see them of their aspect, freely stretching each ounce of their horsepower.
Over 50 airplanes on show
From classic jets to fashionable airplanes and garage-built beauties — Wings and Wheels: Utah’s Competition of Velocity had all of it. A lot of their house owners attended and it was nice to listen to their tales of how the fun of flying has given them a interest to get pleasure from for, in some cases, a long time.
As cool as this 12 months’s tenth anniversary was, we will not await subsequent 12 months. “It may be particular. We will not reveal something but, however subsequent 12 months goes to blow this 12 months out of the water,” stated Hoyt. In the event you missed this 12 months’s Wings and Wheels: Utah’s Competition of Velocity occasion, you will remember to wish to make it out in 2023.
For extra data on the occasion, go to the Wings and Wheels: Utah’s Competition of Velocity web site, right here and right here.
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Utah Highway Patrol responds to your suggestions on making Utah roads safer
SALT LAKE CITY — FOX 13 News is Driven to Change and that includes bringing you reports on important topics like road rage, construction, and wrong-way drivers. During our coverage, we continually ask for any questions or concerns you may have along Utah’s roadways.
The feedback has gotten an enormous response, so FOX 13 sat down with Lieutenant Cameron Roden on Good Day Utah to help address input we have been getting, from the perspective of Utah Highway Patrol.
Speeding in Utah, there’s so much of it, and then you can sometimes say that that leads to tailgating, which may lead to road rage incidents. What are you seeing out there in terms of speed and what can we do to lessen the effects of that?
Lt. Cameron Roden: Speed is our number one thing that we see. That’s our number one traffic stop that we make, and we know that it leads to the majority of crashes in the state of Utah. So we definitely put an emphasis on speed and it does lead to other things. Not just crashes. It leads to road rage and other things .So, as far as what changes can we make, we need to start with ourselves, and really say, ‘Hey, do I have a problem?’ You know, we just need to start with ourselves and not think that it’s something else’s problem. If we slow our speeds ourselves, and then it’ll start to to catch on and people will do that speed limit. So, but the legislature has definitely taken some steps to help us address, especially the the speeds that are those excessive speeds where we have that one zero five law now that addresses those speeds and increases fines and and hopefully discourages people from those extreme speeds.
Some of our viewers talked about maybe capping some of the speed limits for truck drivers. Is that something that’s even feasible?
You know, that would be something that would have to go through that, that legislative process to see whether we that would be something that would help. But ultimately, if we we start with ourselves, hopefully that will make that change and reduce crashes and fatalities.
There are things being done to try and intervene and stop wrong-way drivers before they happen. But some of our viewers propose things like spikes. What are your thoughts on implementing something like that?
We’ve had over the last several years, a rash of wrong-way drivers, and it’ll come in onesie twos, and then we’ll go for a period of time without that. And so, but this spike over the last couple of years has caused us to to create a task force to look at wrongly driving what things can be done. And so getting all these stakeholders together between UDOT and Highway Safety, looking at what technologies and things that could be implemented, and and things like, wrong way detection cameras. Those are some things that are being actually used in the state of Utah right now to help us spot those and and advance signage, getting people to realize they’re going the wrong way and turn around. The the spike strips have actually been talked about in our task force a little bit. And if something like that would even be, it is that technology available right now. And as what we could actually implement in the state of Utah, there’s nothing that really fits the bill right now because of our environment. We have our snow plows. We have snow and things like that. Something like that really wouldn’t be practical right now.
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