Air racing is the fastest and most dangerous motor sport in the world. Pilots fly in a pack of eight planes around a tight course of pylons. At speeds reaching up to 500 mph, flying as low as 50 feet off the ground, there is no chance to use a parachute when accidents happen.

This one-hour documentary film follows husband and wife race team Jon and Patricia Sharp over a four year period and three grueling race seasons. The Sharp’s are dreamers who will risk everything to create the most advanced airplane ever made for air racing. Jon Sharp will pilot their bold new design, the Nemesis NXT, a two-seat propeller-driven airplane that can fly as fast as a jet airliner. When the time comes to attempt a first flight, Jon can only “strap himself in, hit the throttle and hope for the best”

Air racing’s new Sport Class is filled with super high tech aircraft built by the pilots themselves. Racers heavily modify their aircraft and engines in a never-ending struggle to be the fastest. Ground crew carefully monitor engine pressures by live computer link and giving instructions to the pilot. These hopped up engines run on the edge of exploding to generate as much horsepower as possible.

But just flying isn’t enough. The Sharps now enter fierce competition with some of the best pilots in the world. The Sharps’ Nemesis NXT is being called the future of air racing... but is it? After pouring their heart and soul into the project, the Sharp’s new racer is nearly destroyed by a landing gear failure in front of fans, sponsors, and competitors. With their plane badly damaged they contemplate cutting their “dream machine” apart just to get it home. After a year of rebuilding, things only get worse. A mysterious vibration threatens to tear their plane apart each time they race. Jon is forced to call “Mayday” and make an emergency landing, while praying his landing gear will not fail him again.

Even Jon Sharp begins to doubt his dream of the ultimate race plane as the stress of trying to solve the plane’s vibration problem and avoid catastrophe during competition start to add up. Will the Sharp’s secure their place in aviation history?

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