OSH 2012 Award Winners

Dan K · **Posted:** Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:13 am

http://www.airventure.org/news/2012/120 ... nners.html

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11330

Another B-25 award for the guys at Aero Trader!

51fixer · **Posted:** Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:13 am

bdk wrote:

Another B-25 award for the guys at Aero Trader!

Wixer Mark Denest received one for another PT-19 rebuild.

Steven M. Dennis · **Posted:** Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:37 pm

51fixer wrote:

Wixer Mark Denest received one for another PT-19 rebuild.

Congratulations Mark! Leslie's PT is indeed beautiful. And congratulations to all the other award winners. Well deserved all around. There was some beautiful hardware there this year. Thought Race 74 should have come home with something though. Phoenix award maybe? It sure is gorgeous!

365 days until Oshkosh 2013.....

Steve :wink:

JDK · **Posted:** Sun Jul 29, 2012 7:22 pm

Ha ha... There's a world outside the USA (shock :shock:

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For:

Quote:

Bronze Age (1937-1941) Runner-Up
Guy Bourke, Little River, Virginia
1939 Waco AGC-8, N66206

Read:

Quote:

Bronze Age (1937-1941) Runner-Up
Guy Bourke, Little River, Victoria, Australia
1939 Waco AGC-8, N66206

No beat up on the EAA admin, plenty to do, and I don't know what they're working from, but you read it here first, guys.

Baldeagle · **Posted:** Sun Jul 29, 2012 7:37 pm

and how does a 1939 Piper Cub win a Champion Replica award??

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Speedy · **Posted:** Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:10 pm

The Collings A36 was something else. Unreal....in a real way.

Dan Johnson II · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 1:49 am **Posts:** 659

I'll probably get slammed for this comment, but is there an award for everyone who comes to Oshkosh?

I had no idea there were that many different categories.

Dave Homewood · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:10 am

Congratulations to the great team of guys at Avspecs Ltd from Ardmore, New Zealand, for winning a Gold Wrench award with Rod Lewis's P-40C Tomahawk, well deserved.

JDK · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:40 am

Dan Johnson II wrote:

I had no idea there were that many different categories.

There's a lot of different aircraft there! And categories for some - far from all - of the groups that turn up.

k5083 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:56 am

Actually there are some missing categories. Isn't there usually a Best P-51 and Best T-6/SNJ/Harvard prize?

The Judges Choice, Preservation and Phoenix awards are good things to have available in discretionary numbers to reward great work that gets shut out of the big prizes.

The grand champion antique was a beautiful Lockheed 12A from Canada which I unfortunately didn't get a pic of because it was surrounded by admirers at all times.

August

P51Mstg · **Joined:** Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:36 am **Posts:** 1202

The Thunder Mustang N241DT won an award and had the Fokker tossed on it by the storm..........

Condolences to the owner......

Mark H

Speedy · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:15 pm

Dan Johnson II wrote:

I'll probably get slammed for this comment, but is there an award for everyone who comes to Oshkosh?

I had no idea there were that many different categories.

No. Because as we found out first-hand, there is no plaque for "Best ex-Canadian Armed Forces CT-33".

kalamazookid · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:22 pm

This is probably a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway. How do the judges determine which awards will be available in a particular year? Is it based on turnout? I ask this because I see in the past that there have been awards for Best Corsair, Best Navy Fighter, etc. and those honors obviously weren't awarded this year. Is it pre-determined before the show whether these types of awards will be available or is that a decision made based on the turnout? Just curious.

k5083 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:02 am

The judges meet and work all of that out once they see what planes are there. I think they take into account quantity, quality, and whether the better planes have taken home prizes already in past years. This year I was able to sneak into the meeting and get this photo.

August

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