The Official AirVenture Oshkosh 2011 Photo Thread

[Dan K]

Chris H. and the bunch from Grissom brought this chunk of B-17 up with them...great way to discourage tailgaters.






The Canucks all made it, save the Swordfish. The story I got was fuel pump gremlins. It still might make it late Thursday/early Friday.

[Dan K]

FIFI gets tugged to a spot of honor










Dave works his magic on the A-4.

[Lightning]

Howdy All

What about the Tri-State Warbird Museum's P-40M ?

Lightning

[DaveM2]

Howdy All

What about the Tri-State Warbird Museum's P-40M ?

Lightning

AFAIK it isn't coming.

[planeoldsteve]

The Airshow Buzz Facebook page says "FIFI" is 20-30 minutes out with a 4 Mustang escort !!! THAT should be cool !!!
Many thanks to all you guys on the ground up there posting the latest updates and photos !!!
Mike

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.ph ... 0&comments

Steve

[Dan K]

Howdy All

What about the Tri-State Warbird Museum's P-40M ?

Lightning

Sadly, no sign of it. I'll ask around Thursday.

Frasca Wildcat arrived late Tuesday (making 4 on field).

[Pat Carry]

Lots of rain headed in that direction today. Probably not much flying going on.

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[CAPFlyer]

The Airshow Buzz Facebook page says "FIFI" is 20-30 minutes out with a 4 Mustang escort !!! THAT should be cool !!!
Many thanks to all you guys on the ground up there posting the latest updates and photos !!!
Mike

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.ph ... 0&comments

Steve

Says video not available because it was removed or due to privacy settings?

[garbs]

Got online down at Registration (since the weather is so nice). Here's a few from yesterday's show:

Fifi dropped in just before the show



WB airshow had formation groups and about a dozen fighters:













Scott Yoak flew a nice Hoover-like routine in Quicksilver



And the show finished up with a nice formation of planes Hoover has used in airshows. I cut off Doug Rozendaal's wing tip







Bob Odegaard nailed the engines-off landing in the Shrike, rolling up to Hoover's feet at show center

They are still promising an airshow today - will believe it when I see it.

[MKD1966]

Thank you "Dan K" for the Blue Angel Bearcat photo's !!! Just what I was looking for to build my 1/32 Bearcat model... Thanks to everyone posting photo's and updates for those of us who can't be there ourselves... Just curious - what 4 Mustangs escorted "FIFI" in yesterday ?
Mike

[Dan K]

[Warbird Kid]

More Photos!!!!!!

[deltascrew]

More Photos!!!!!!

[Dan K]

More Photos!!!!!!

*sigh*... never satisfied



A6M





Canopy on A6M





Girl on A6M





Girl on A6M watching FIFI







That's it until Friday pm. Ciao.

[garbs]

Break in the action here in OSH as one of the two F-16's buzzing the field went off the end of the runway and broke the nose. This is probably the worst photo of many to come, but it happened while I was off the front line they evacuated the whole flight line to be safe.



Tower will advise status of the airshow at about 12:25 CDT - pilot apparently stepped out after a few minutes and walked away. Some who did see it said he landed second and showed no sign of being able to slow down. He went around the #1 guy and off the north end, but not far enough to encounter any other aircraft.

Here's a few from last night in the haze - not much one can do in those conditions:











Here's an interesting study in the different wing folding mechanisms:



Here's how humid it is: