"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
07/28/2017 at 23:42 • Filed to: Planelopnik, airventure, Oshkosh
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"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
07/28/2017 at 23:42 • Filed to: Planelopnik, airventure, Oshkosh | 4
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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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Waco UBF - Waco made (and makes) a lot of stunning aircraft. This is a show winner.
Cessna 180's
Fairchild 71 - built in 1929
Stinson V77
Beech Model 17 - Staggerwing
A lot of people think the Staggerwing is the most beautiful airplane ever built. This one is stunning.
Stearman - from the Warbird side
Stinson Reliant (SR-9C)
Taylorcraft
V35 Bonanza - love the V-Tail, this is a gorgeous example
Airshow. Yes, that’s a Beech Bonanza doing aerobatics (F33C)
The iconic little yellow airplane.
Model T’s - all of them. Ford is a sponsor and was running tours of the grounds in them.
Model T on a tour
Replica, but cool nonetheless
More Stearmans
Blue Origin - presume that this is the New Shepard?
You can use your old Corvair engine in an airplane!
Gamebird - this airplane flew in the airshow. As a demo, trying to drum up sales.
Helio Courier - lousy photo, but I love these planes. Incredible STOL performance. Those leading edge slats drop automatically at low speeds, further reducing stall speed.
Honor Flight arrival
Howard H500. Beautiful airplane, and big, too. Only 22 were ever built, and there’s another one right behind this one.
Waco biplane in the airshow - Screamin’ Sasquatch. Sports a P&W 985 radial - AND a GE CJ610 jet engine. Weird to hear this little biplane making jet noises
Flagship Detroit DC-3. Great guys showing this one - out of Nashville, I believe - I was waitlisted for a 6pm ride in this, but didn’t get on.
Interior of the Flagship Detroit - just like it was back in the day
Ford - presumably a ‘41
This Ford is a ‘64. Shown by a muscle car restorer in Chippewa Falls
Bucker Jungmeister upside down, Beech 18 right side up. The Jungmeister has only 160 HP, so aerobatics in it are slow- which allows you take in the grace and beauty of what the pilot is doing more easily than the high powered aircraft, IMHO. It also requires a lot of momentum management.
One for Torch
Proteus
OK, so the Shorts isn’t the prettiest airplane in the world, but it does its job.
Stearman in the Vintage area.
Another Model T on tour
Tic-tac-toe. I presume this ended in a cat’s game.
Waco YKC and Monocoupe 90
Waco S3HD
Waco YMF-S5C - newer
A beautiful Cessna 182 - old school square tail. Hopefully right side up.
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WilliamsSW
> WilliamsSW
07/28/2017 at 23:51 |
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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)
> WilliamsSW
07/29/2017 at 13:14 |
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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.
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WilliamsSW
> RedlineZ bought an SV (And is getting rid of the z)
07/29/2017 at 13:19 |
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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
> WilliamsSW
08/01/2017 at 10:17 |
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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.
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WilliamsSW
> ttyymmnn
08/01/2017 at 10:28 |
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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.
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ttyymmnn
> WilliamsSW
08/01/2017 at 10:30 |
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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.
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WilliamsSW
> ttyymmnn
08/01/2017 at 10:39 |
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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...
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WilliamsSW
> ttyymmnn
08/01/2017 at 11:12 |
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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/
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ttyymmnn
> WilliamsSW
08/01/2017 at 11:38 |
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Now, go update the Wiki page. That’s an amazing story.