The First Unofficial Oshkosh Airventure 2009 Thread

Chicoartist · **Posted:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:04 am

Just a note from the peanut gallery - Al, thanks so much for your consistently outstanding coverage of Oshkosh now and in the past via those beautiful photographs! :f4u:

Wade

GARY HILTON · **Posted:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:08 am

Thanks for the invite Zach! Sorry I couldn't make it to the WIX gathering at your house....Had to get this ultralight delivered.....I took Annie to Oshkosh this year!.....well, at least I had her nose section on the trailer!

garbs · **Posted:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:29 am

Here's a few more - hard to find an angle that Al hasn't already posted though. Saving me some uploading time

Did anybody get the formation pass of T-28's as they went under the "T-28" skywriting? I took the shot too early and my camera didn't cycle in time to hit it right.

lmritger · **Posted:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:57 am

Steve, you lucky utter b**stard... what a complete coincidence, I happen to have a wartime photo of John C. Meyer leading two other Mustangs on a fighter sweep over the continent that looks JUST LIKE the one you took!

Lynn, wishin' someone would offer HIM a Mustang ride

spookythecat · **Posted:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:17 pm

Robbie Stuart wrote:

Thanks for those Wednesday pics Spooky. Got Moonbeam as my desktop now. Great job.

Robbie

You bet! That is probably one of the best Mustang shots i've ever taken.

spookythecat · **Posted:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:19 pm

Garbs wrote:

Did anybody get the formation pass of T-28's as they went under the "T-28" skywriting? I took the shot too early and my camera didn't cycle in time to hit it right.

Yep! Not great but you get the idea.

spookythecat · **Posted:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:20 pm

lmritger wrote:

Steve, you lucky utter b**stard... what a complete coincidence, I happen to have a wartime photo of John C. Meyer leading two other Mustangs on a fighter sweep over the continent that looks JUST LIKE the one you took!

Lynn, wishin' someone would offer HIM a Mustang ride

Ha! This is awesome!!!

spookythecat · **Posted:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:22 pm

Thanks everyone for the nice comments. I love sharing my pics with you guys and just wish I had the time to get through more of them. For now i'm just working on the ones that stand out to me. If the rain comes back later maybe i'll get a chance to get more done. They'll get posted eventually as i've already got almost 2,500 to sort through :shock:

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:03 pm

Did any of you guys attend the T-28 talk? One of the speakers I just found out was the guy who did my spin endorsement training - Ed Gunter. I can personally vouch for his flying skills as well as excellent teaching ability! :shock:

Ryan

Ztex · **Posted:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:36 pm

Al...love the night shot!

And

Chris...great Sabre shot!

Good stuff guys! Keep it coming :!:

skydaddy61 · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:58 am **Posts:** 208

I'd love to see some shots of any really oddball one-off homebuilts (if those guys come ot OSH anymore - seems it's a sea of RVs.)

ww2John · **Posted:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:50 pm

Thank-You, Thank-You, Thank-You...

Been having OSH withdrawal all week as I am tied up with a union convention down on bleepin Orlando. Today is my first time to visit WIX to check up on all things OSH.

Did I say Thank-You???

:roll:

sdennison · **Posted:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:29 pm

OK, so I'm no photographer but I did meet some really good ones tonight at the WIX gathering. Please excuse my "Ron Popiel's Pocket Digital" but here are a few of my observations from a rainy day.

spookythecat · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2009 3:12 am

sdennison wrote:

OK, so I'm no photographer but I did meet some really good ones tonight at the WIX gathering. Please excuse my "Ron Popiel's Pocket Digital" but here are a few of my observations from a rainy day.

Those look pretty good to me!

spookythecat · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2009 3:26 am

Aside from finally getting to sleep in some thanks to the rain here's what else happened on Thursday.

My dad retired from Kimberly-Clark last month after over 30 years there and I had an idea for a great gift for him. With some help from my mom & sis he's going flying in the CAF Red Nose Mustang this coming Saturday. In case you were wondering what he looked like being presented with his ride ticket this pretty much sums it up.

Unfortunately the only plane i've been able to go in/on was the Silver Dart which was quite impressive following all the wires and watching the controls move. No way you'd ever get me to fly on it though with how creaky and grindy the wheel was. Yikes!

And now for the pics you've all been waiting for. The 2009 Gathering of WIXers. It was also a joint gathering with AirshowBuzz and I had a great time chatting with so many of you. I always feel bad because I can never remember who I had talked about what with on days prior but it's all good.

After the party I needed to get to Warbirds for my security job and Chris/mustangdriver gave me a lift down there. We decided to give some night shots a go and here are some of the results I eventually got. He also got some pretty nice shots but you'll have to wait until he gets home to see them.

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