Airventure 2006 report.

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I left Phillips on Monday morning at 6:30. All set with trailer loaded with camping gear and bike on top.....



Here's my tent set up at Oshkosh. There were about 20 different people from our EAA chapter that attended,not all at once, some for a day or two... There were four camps that stayed for the whole week.



This was the weirdest camp! I saw the people occasionally, sitting in their lawn chairs or in the truck cab. I guess they used the sleeper in back and the truck was running sometimes--air conditioning, I guess.



Steve, on the right, is a real go getter. Even at camp he takes the time to go over material for some guys from Wild Rose. He's helping them get ready for their Sport Pilot practical test.



Due to being in the right place at the right time, I got my picture in an EAA publication about maintaining Light Sport planes. The guys in camp noticed that I arrived in camp wearing the same shirt and hat as in the picture.... doh!



Here's the control tower at Wittman field.



And here is Frank Beagle in the announcing tower at the ultralight field. He's the guy I told about in an earlier post. He spent the whole week talking about the planes so the people visiting would know what was going on.



Here are a couple of pictures of the ultralight barn, the headquarters of that area.






And a couple of pix of the sidelines of the UL field.






Here is where I spent a bunch of time, helping with getting planes on and off the field. All the work down there is volunteer, so I thought I may as well help out.



While watching the gate one day, I got to watch a skywriter make a smile face and spell out EAA. The writing was so big I couldn't get it in my camera lens.....






Here are a bunch of photos of some UL and Light Sport planes........









Here is a Flightstar like mine. The factory pilot gave me a ride in it one morning.






This plane belongs to Sean Curry, the FAA examiner that did my practical test.


















There was a re-enacting area for WWII buffs. Here's a tent that supposedly looks like a field set-up.






And here is Jerry's one-man band!!




Here are a bunch of miscellaneous photos of older planes.





















Every day they had an airshow that started with some skydivers with flags and stuff, and someone in an old biplane circled them as they came down to the field.



A couple of days there was fake bombing by some B17's, Lancasters, B24's and B25's.














Here is one of three remaining P38's.














Here's the wing-walker guy waiting to go climging around on that bi-plane as it flies. Thay may be nuttier than jumping out of a plane that's not in trouble....

































This is how the sky looked Sunday morning just before it got almost as dark as night. Then the wind and rain arrived in time to soak my tent so I could pack it up wet for the trip home.















I had a pretty good time down there last week and am looking forward to going again next year. Hope to fly down next time.....

I gotta go, Carlo