by "WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
Published 07/28/2017 at 23:42
by "WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
Published 07/28/2017 at 23:42
Tags: Planelopnik
; airventure
; Oshkosh
STARS: 4
There is so much to see and do here, this only scratches the surface - I missed the homebuilts, Fun Fly Zone, helicopters, Pioneer Airport, tethered balloons, drones, autogiros, seaplanes, and much, much more - I imagine that Jcarr will have a lot of pics of things I missed (and better quality, too), but here you go. Link to the first post:
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"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
07/28/2017 at 23:51, STARS: 0
Also, fuck Kinja, because I’m not sure why the 182 is upside down, yet it’s right side up when you click the image.
"RedlineZ bought an SV (And is getting rid of the z)" (redline350z)
07/29/2017 at 13:14, STARS: 1
Really wish I could have made it to Oshkosh this year. 2 of my supervisors are out there having a blast. Keep up with the awesome pics I’m living vicariously through your posts.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
07/29/2017 at 13:19, STARS: 0
Glad you’re enjoying them- but sorry you couldn’t make it!! This is all that I have, but there are others in Oshkosh now that will post, too, I’m sure —
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/01/2017 at 10:17, STARS: 1
You and I are of the same opinion on the Staggerwing. And I had never heard of the Howard 500. Beautiful plane. I may have to write about it for the “Planes you’ve (probably) never heard of” series.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
08/01/2017 at 10:28, STARS: 0
The Waco F series is actually my favorite, if you can’t tell from the number of pictures of them. In the above pictures, all but 1 is an original Waco (415WW is only a few years old).
But there’s something incredibly beautiful and sleek about the Staggerwing - especially when you consider when it was built. There were actually fewer of them there this year- - I swear I saw 10 or so last year.
I had never heard of the Howard 500, either - but it is beautiful - and amazing that there were TWO of them there. It’s fairly large, too - quite a bit bigger than a Beech 18, smaller than a DC-3. What’s odd about it to me is that the belly is only a few inches off the ground.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/01/2017 at 10:30, STARS: 1
According to Wiki, there are only 2 Howards left flying. So you saw all of them. They were built from parts of the Lockheed Ventura and Harpoon.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
08/01/2017 at 10:39, STARS: 1
Interesting- I just looked at the Wikipedia page, and there’s a picture of the same aircraft as above, and the interior shot is of the *other* aircraft at Oshkosh - N500HP. The 4 photos on the page all appear to be of the two aircraft that I saw (the top and bottom pics are of the same airplane, before and after paint jobs apparently).
So, the world’s only airworthy H500's, B-29's, the only Waco S3HD ever built, a Spitfire, and who knows what else? That’s Oshkosh...
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
08/01/2017 at 11:12, STARS: 0
OK, you’ve sent me down a wormhole - the Spitfire that I saw has been bugging me, because I was so surprised to see it. Oddly, it wasn’t getting a ton of attention, either - because it was parked by itself at the far end of the Warbird section. I saw it depart after the airshow on Thursday, too. And it’s not listed on Wikipedia’s page of surviving Spitfires. But I found it:
http://www.collingsfoundation.org/aircrafts/supermarine-spitfire-mk-ix/
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/01/2017 at 11:38, STARS: 0
Now, go update the Wiki page. That’s an amazing story.