Wings and Wheels 2018

"Aremmes" (aremmes) 03/09/2019 at 23:00 • Filed to: Wings and Wheels, Cars and No Coffee, KLOM, First post, Car show, Plane show

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The local GA airport, Wings Field (KLOM), hosted its annual Wings and Wheels show last September, and I took the family and my camera there for the afternoon. Given the gloomy weather that day, I think things looked pretty good. I’ve wanted to share my pictures here since then, but hemmed and hawed over actually requesting posting privs. Until now, that is.

The show didn’t follow any particular theme, folks just brought what they got, and some really had something interesting. There were assorted classic planes.

And there were classic cars.

The fire company brought this nice REO Speedwagon fire truck.

ENGINE PORN

Visitors could line up for rides on a couple of planes.

There was also some fancy hardware present.

Icon A5 amphibious light sport plane.

I understand why they parked the R8 next to the Vision, but I think it makes the scene look garish.

There was even a Miata. A yellow one, even!

I spent an inordinate amount of time gawking at this O-1, and then more crowds came and I couldn’t take more pictures of it.

I might attend the next one in September this year, and if so I’ll venture to share the pictures here.

Some more pictures that I took. Unfortunately I did not get to photograph everything, and not all of my pictures came out that great.

One of the hangars had a handful of planes in various state of repair, like this Bellanca.

Chariotoflove > Aremmes 03/09/2019 at 23:11

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That looks like it was great fun. Thanks for sharing the pics. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > Aremmes 03/09/2019 at 23:48

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This is a little disturbing. Every propeller should be treated as if the engine was about to start.

Someone please teach that little guy to respect props.

WilliamsSW > TheRealBicycleBuck 03/10/2019 at 00:03

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A lot disturbing. I would freak out if my kids did that. 

WilliamsSW > Aremmes 03/10/2019 at 00:03

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  great stuff - thanks!

LastFirstMI is my name > Aremmes 03/10/2019 at 11:54

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The GA hangers are a great place to find cool “old guy” cars. Guaranteed to find a corvette or two! And I agree the R8 and Vision look like props in a rap video

Aremmes > TheRealBicycleBuck 03/10/2019 at 12:18

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And you're not wrong. I could only hope that they had removed the battery and fuel before opening the hangar to the public as there effectively was no supervision and visitors could roam about freely almost anywhere within the workshop.