EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013

[Bear]

I think I know this C-47, "9X". Can someone tell me who the owner is? How about an "N" number?

Hope this helps.

http://www.texasflyinglegends.org/c-53-skytrooper-c-47

[garbs]

Tonight's installment:

[Dave Homewood]

Neat. Did they get a formation of all the P-40's up together?

[garbs]

Did anybody else think that Jet Man was an incredibly groundbreaking event, obviously quite dangerous and involving a huge amount of effort but at the same time not that exciting an airshow act? I'm just sayin'...

[garbs]

Neat. Did they get a formation of all the P-40's up together?

No - not any attempt as far as I saw. The only one to fly was with the Tora group. No P-38's at all this year; the Spitfire we had heard rumors about never materialized and I also heard that a pair of P-47's were weathered in somewhere in Tennessee. Best line I heard at Registration all week was:

Gentleman at window with British accent; "I understand that there is a Turbine Mosquito here this year"

Me; "Well, yes, but that is a production helicopter, not an upgraded DeHavilland product"

Gentleman; "That Sucks!"

Felt genuinely bad for the guy who had flown FJ-4 Furies and was looking for Dr Sugden's example but it had been moved or was out flying. I really love my job when I can hook guys like that up with pilots/owners of actual examples on the field.

Last for tonight - will post the rest of the Tora stuff next time:

[Dave Homewood]

A pity they didn't have a P-40 massed flypast. The most I have seen in the air together is three, two P-40N's and a P-40E at Wanaka in 2006; and then at Omaka in 2011 we saw the P-40E, P-40N and P-40C together which was a real treat.

It's really neat that so many of those Tora, Tora, Tora aeroplanes are still flying together 43 years after the film was made. I'd LOVE to see that display someday.

Haha, I love that Turbo Mosquito story.

[bdk]

Chino always seems to have 5 of something or another flying each year. Me, I'd rather see a bigger variety than duplicates.

[kalamazookid]

Howard Pardue's old Wildcat sure looks great! Thanks everyone for sharing pics.

[JohnB]

The idea of having guys paint the invasion stripes on the plane as a re-enactor event is brilliant!!!! It's great to have something different...and rather unexpected. Watercolors?


Also, I would have left a large pickle jar in front of the Wildcat project...it would be interesting to see how much was donated by EAA-ers and the crowd.

[Dave Homewood]

If you left a pickle jar lying around John the B-17 might have bombed it.

[vg-photo]

Nice shots, everyone,

Garbs, I love the shot of the Corsair startup!

I finally got my edits completed and posted. The link below will take you to the shots on my website, 94 galleries!
http://www.vg-photo.com/airshow/2013/Os ... nture.html

Here are some samples from the week.

A6M2 Zero


Aeroshell Team during the night show on Wednesday night


F-86 with the leading edge slats and speed brake deployed.


David Martin Aerobatics.


Mustang!


Art Nalls in the only civilian owned Sea Harrier


Tinstix (Melissa Pemberton and Skip Stewart)


Tora Tora Tora!


More T-6s than you can shake a stick at.

[Dave Homewood]

Wonderful Eric. That Harrier photo and the shot with all the Tora fighters are both superb.

I had an interesting evening last night when two WONZ Forum members came over, they'd both attended Oshkosh and we had about five hours of photo show-and-tell. It was interesting to hear what they thought of the airshow compared with kiwi airshows. Lots of pluses and a number of "we do it better here"s too.

[vg-photo]

Thanks Dave. Having seen some of the shots in various places of shows in New Zealand, I would LOVE to get to one of those one day. I chatted for a bit with John Freedman from Australia, while on the show line about some of the shows in both Australia and New Zealand.

[Dave Homewood]

I have caught up with John at the last two Classic Fighters airshows at Omaka (2011 and 2013) and he is always enthusiastic about how good the kiwi shows are. There's no denying we are very lucky to have world class pilots flying much closer to the crowd and much lower than a lot of countries allow. We also have a superb safety record at airshows in NZ too. So we must be doing something right.

[Mike]

A pity they didn't have a P-40 massed flypast.

Dave,

Oshkosh doesn't really work that way. It is more of a fly-in than an airshow, and the warbird portion of the show consists mainly of a few aircraft flying racetrack patterns, apart from the massed trainer formations at altitude. Most of the warbirds present don't fly at all while they are there, they fly in, park for a few days, then fly out again.