[PICS] Oshkosh 1982 memories
Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:13 am
I was scanning some old pics this weekend and thought it might be nice to share. 1982 was my third Oshkosh, but my first with a good SLR camera and slide film. Also with the resolve to get up early in the morning and take some uncluttered pictures.
Chuckie heads out for a morning sortie.
Fifi was looking sharp in her movie paint from The Right Stuff, but with her name added to the nose in big blue letters.
Howard Pardue's FM-2P.
Three Mustangs that used to be regulars at OSH and many shows in the midwest. Miss Coronado, Ho! Hun, Bald Eagle.
The EAA used to haul its static warbirds out help populate the warbird flight line during the convention.
The EAA Buchon was set up in a little friend-and-foe tableau with Aluminum Overcast.
Sunrise over the Air Zoo's Hellcat the previous year's Grand Champion.
The Air Zoo's Corsair had been Grand Champ in 1980.
Four Sea Furies graced the ramp that year, and in those days they all had the proper engine.
The Grand Champion trophy in 1982 was taken by Ray Stutsman's P-47G Little Demon, which helped raise the bar for inside-and-out authenticity of restoration in those years.
Ray and Dick Dieter also brought this handsome TBM, which had been restored to its exact postwar configuration and paint job.
With some effort and a little luck I got all yellow T-6/Harvards in this picture. The one in the foreground was, again, owned by Stutsman.
The T-28 lineup.
Forest fires in the Canadian prairies put a lot of smoke into the atmosphere and produced sunset-like sunrises late in the week.
In those days the T-33 was still in the USAF inventory, so you could go to Oshkosh and see active-duty ANG ones (above) alongside privately owned warbirds (below).
There were two real sensations in the warbird paddock that year. One was Pete Regina's new P-51C, nowadays Princess Elizabeth.
The other was the Yak-11. This was the first Yak of any kind to appear on the airshow circuit in what was then called the free world, and from today's perspective it is hard to recall what a stir it caused. It also had one of the funnier and more appropriate civil registrations I've seen, G-AYAK (which was exactly what everyone said when they first saw it). Today it's for sale by Kermit Weeks, having taken a whack in the Hurricane Andrew hangar collapse.
Bill Ross's P-38 was an Oshkosh regular and always as pretty as anything on the ramp.
That year Lefty also showed up, treating us to his great solo routine.
Ross tucked in behind him for a photo op flight.
A third P-38, though it didn't fly, at least moved under its own power. The EAA decided to spare its P-38 the indignity of a tow when moving it around the field.
I had always wanted to stand right behind a P-38 starting. I didn't mind the wind, but didn't reckon on how much fluid a P-38 ejects from its turbosuperchargers on start-up. First it sloshed out by the gallon, then when the fans got turning it came back as a finely atomized spray. Despite my best efforts in the campground showers, my cologne was Eau de Pierre No. 38 for the rest of the week.
Lovely paint job on this Staggerwing; I don't even want to know if it's not accurate.
Thanks for indulging me in these reminiscences!
August
Chuckie heads out for a morning sortie.
Fifi was looking sharp in her movie paint from The Right Stuff, but with her name added to the nose in big blue letters.
Howard Pardue's FM-2P.
Three Mustangs that used to be regulars at OSH and many shows in the midwest. Miss Coronado, Ho! Hun, Bald Eagle.
The EAA used to haul its static warbirds out help populate the warbird flight line during the convention.
The EAA Buchon was set up in a little friend-and-foe tableau with Aluminum Overcast.
Sunrise over the Air Zoo's Hellcat the previous year's Grand Champion.
The Air Zoo's Corsair had been Grand Champ in 1980.
Four Sea Furies graced the ramp that year, and in those days they all had the proper engine.
The Grand Champion trophy in 1982 was taken by Ray Stutsman's P-47G Little Demon, which helped raise the bar for inside-and-out authenticity of restoration in those years.
Ray and Dick Dieter also brought this handsome TBM, which had been restored to its exact postwar configuration and paint job.
With some effort and a little luck I got all yellow T-6/Harvards in this picture. The one in the foreground was, again, owned by Stutsman.
The T-28 lineup.
Forest fires in the Canadian prairies put a lot of smoke into the atmosphere and produced sunset-like sunrises late in the week.
In those days the T-33 was still in the USAF inventory, so you could go to Oshkosh and see active-duty ANG ones (above) alongside privately owned warbirds (below).
There were two real sensations in the warbird paddock that year. One was Pete Regina's new P-51C, nowadays Princess Elizabeth.
The other was the Yak-11. This was the first Yak of any kind to appear on the airshow circuit in what was then called the free world, and from today's perspective it is hard to recall what a stir it caused. It also had one of the funnier and more appropriate civil registrations I've seen, G-AYAK (which was exactly what everyone said when they first saw it). Today it's for sale by Kermit Weeks, having taken a whack in the Hurricane Andrew hangar collapse.
Bill Ross's P-38 was an Oshkosh regular and always as pretty as anything on the ramp.
That year Lefty also showed up, treating us to his great solo routine.
Ross tucked in behind him for a photo op flight.
A third P-38, though it didn't fly, at least moved under its own power. The EAA decided to spare its P-38 the indignity of a tow when moving it around the field.
I had always wanted to stand right behind a P-38 starting. I didn't mind the wind, but didn't reckon on how much fluid a P-38 ejects from its turbosuperchargers on start-up. First it sloshed out by the gallon, then when the fans got turning it came back as a finely atomized spray. Despite my best efforts in the campground showers, my cologne was Eau de Pierre No. 38 for the rest of the week.
Lovely paint job on this Staggerwing; I don't even want to know if it's not accurate.
Thanks for indulging me in these reminiscences!
August
Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:40 am
Ahhhh... The good old days! Nice shots!!!!!
Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:04 am
Great pics! Thanks for taking the time!!
I love Shangri-La and Little Demon.
The Staggerwing looks good in Navy colors!
I love Shangri-La and Little Demon.
The Staggerwing looks good in Navy colors!
Re: [PICS] Oshkosh 1982 memories
Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:08 am
k5083 wrote:
Lovely paint job on this Staggerwing; I don't even want to know if it's not accurate.
Thanks for indulging me in these reminiscences!
August
Hello August.
This D-17 used to belong to Bob Pond/Planes of Fame East. I can't tell you if the markings are accurate, but if you want the c/n I can look it up when I get home. It has since moved on- Last I heard Howard Pardue owned her...
Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:23 am
If this Staggerwing is owned by Howard, then she is in a gorgeous red civilian scheme now.
Great pictures August! If you didn't know the details of all the Oshkoshes and of all the airplanes, you'd think the pictures were taken just this year. Very crisp. Slide shooting had its advantages.
Great pictures August! If you didn't know the details of all the Oshkoshes and of all the airplanes, you'd think the pictures were taken just this year. Very crisp. Slide shooting had its advantages.
Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:36 am
Thanks Bryan and Ryan, I'd love to have an N-number for the Beech.
HAS. HAS its advantages. Which is why I still shoot them ...
August
Ryan Harris wrote:If you didn't know the details of all the Oshkoshes and of all the airplanes, you'd think the pictures were taken just this year. Very crisp. Slide shooting had its advantages.
HAS. HAS its advantages. Which is why I still shoot them ...
August
Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:45 am
Is it possible that this Staggerwing was the one that went to Lone Star for Several years. She is wearing the appropriate colors?
Also interseting to note that a couple of other pictured birds went through Galveston including the P38 that would become Putt Putt and Little Demon.
Also interesting to see Fuddy Duddy with no Turrets - just like the first time I saw her at my first airshow in NJ
Thanks for a great set of photos- really brings back some memories.
Steve S
Also interseting to note that a couple of other pictured birds went through Galveston including the P38 that would become Putt Putt and Little Demon.
Also interesting to see Fuddy Duddy with no Turrets - just like the first time I saw her at my first airshow in NJ
Thanks for a great set of photos- really brings back some memories.
Steve S
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Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:57 am
Steve S wrote:Also interesting to see Fuddy Duddy with no Turrets - just like the first time I saw her at my first airshow in NJ
That B-17 is Chuckie. Fuddy Duddy wasn't on the airshow circuit with the big yellow tail until 1988.
Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:20 pm
Thanks Kzollitsch- I have so many memories of seeing Fuddy Duddy wiht no turrets that I immediatly thougth that was her.
My Bad
Steve S
My Bad
Steve S
Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:49 pm
wow! such cool shots! even though i was only 6 at the time i remember seeing all those planes. certainly the highlight of my day. thanks!
Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:08 pm
Glad you guys like these. Here's just a few more:
August
August
Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:23 pm
k5083 wrote:Glad you guys like these. Here's just a few more:
August
Great photos August. Just a note. This is not 44-74832 even though the serial says so. This is N335J 44-74502 after Gary Norton bought it. It was bought to replace 44-74832 which had burned up in a hangar fire in Athol, ID. Both Mustangs had been owned by Max Hoffman at one time, and both got to wear the 4th FG colors with blue anti- glare panel.
T J
Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:47 pm
Thanks T J, duly noted!
August
August
Re: [PICS] Oshkosh 1982 memories
Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:37 pm
Warbirdnerd wrote:k5083 wrote:
Lovely paint job on this Staggerwing; I don't even want to know if it's not accurate.
Thanks for indulging me in these reminiscences!
August
Hello August.
This D-17 used to belong to Bob Pond/Planes of Fame East. I can't tell you if the markings are accurate, but if you want the c/n I can look it up when I get home. It has since moved on- Last I heard Howard Pardue owned her...
If its Howard's, Steve Dickey should be able to comfirm it as he see its everyday when its there...
Lynn
Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:46 pm
Cool photos. I love Oshkosh. I really hope someone puts a razorback(or whatever) P-51 in Shangri La markings again.