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Darryl Greenamyer
Darryl Greenamyer is an American aviator. He started his flying career in the US Air Force Reserve.〔"On Scene: Greenamyer's Folly" ''Newsweek'' December 20, 1976.〕 After leaving the Air Force, he then began to work at Lockheed where he eventually became an SR-71 test pilot at Skunk works. While working at Lockheed he met many of the engineers who would later help him make modifications to future race planes. He won his first victory in the Unlimited Class at the Reno Air Races in 1965. He is the third most successful competitor in Reno Air Race history.
== History ==
On August 16, 1969, flying the highly modified Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat "Conquest I" (N1111L), Greenamyer broke the 30-year-old FAI Class C-1 Group I 3 km speed record with a speed of . An earlier attempt in 1966 by Greenamyer had to be aborted due to directional stability problems and an attempt in 1968 ended with a blown piston.〔'The Making of Conquest I' Sport Flying 1976.〕 The previous record had been set by Fritz Wendel flying a German Messerschmitt Me 209 in 1939.〔(), Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum collections database, Grumman F8F-2, Bearcat, "Conquest I," object A19770989000.〕 The record-breaking was featured in the 1970 documentary "Man for the Record" (Pennzoil/Cobra Enterprises).〔(), Exhibit, "Intermission: Films from A Heroic Future," Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), 25-Nov-2009 to 28-Feb-2010, Montreal.〕 Greenamyer won the National Air Races six times with this airplane before donating it to the Smithsonian in 1977.〔
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