Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Precious Metal P 51XR

Precious Metal P 51XR Mustang, Racing at the 2014 Reno Air Races
Voting period ends on 24 Oct 2014  at 21:35:28 (UTC)
 * Reason:One of a kind P 51XR Mustang N6WJ Precious Metal Reno Air Races 2014. This is the ONLY P 51 in the world that runs a Rolls-Royce Griffon engine originally produced for the British Spitfire, this plane also features Contra-rotating propellers as you can see in the photo. The pilot is Thom Richard.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Precious Metal (aircraft) - Reno Air Races - Contra-rotating propellers - Rolls-Royce Griffon - North American P-51 variants
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Air
 * Creator:WPPilot


 * Support as nominator – talk→   WPPilot   21:35, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - striking picture - (hope nobody comes with some technicality I never discovered) Hey, it's like the Swedish flag...Flag of Sweden.svg Hafspajen (talk) 21:57, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * FYI the pilot is Swedish. talk→   WPPilot   00:21, 15 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Weak support - A fair bit of motion blur, but the text is mostly sharp, so that's not an oppose for me. Perhaps next time you can increase your ISO to 320 to get down to 1/1600 or so... might help cut back on motion blur. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:18, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * It is tough @ 500MPH but thanks for the comment Crisco, will do. talk→   WPPilot   00:21, 15 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Support Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:39, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose I dont think its a blur thing, to me it looks like the focus has been slightly missed --Muhammad (talk) 04:53, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Muhammad, you have contributed some wonderful photos to Wikipedia and I wanted to address your comment. This plane is about 200 feet away, traveling at 450mph, fifty feet off the ground. I am stationary, on the ground (about 200 feet away), so the slight blur that you mention is the sheer speed of the subject. Cheers! talk→   WPPilot   17:53, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I understand the difficulty, maybe I was being harsh --Muhammad (talk) 17:19, 16 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Support Great mid-flight shot that captures important features of the plane, such as the contra-rotating propellers mentioned in the description. I, JethroBT  drop me a line 19:06, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Weak support Have been thinking a lot about this one. I still dont like the blur/OOF but it is the best image we have of the aircraft --Muhammad (talk) 18:15, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 21:39, 24 October 2014 (UTC)