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Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Sun Dec 21, 2014 8:06 pm

Rumors of a Dauntless from the left coast? Would be a contender as well, for sure.

What about Doc? How cool to have two B-29's?

Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:07 pm

sdennison wrote:What about Doc? How cool to have two B-29's?


According to a recent interview of Doc's management, Doc is slated to make it to Oshkosh 2015

Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Mon Dec 22, 2014 2:19 pm

maxum96 wrote:
sdennison wrote:What about Doc? How cool to have two B-29's?


According to a recent interview of Doc's management, Doc is slated to make it to Oshkosh 2015


Did the interview include anything about Thunder?

Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Mon Dec 22, 2014 7:13 pm

seabee1526 wrote:
maxum96 wrote:
sdennison wrote:What about Doc? How cool to have two B-29's?


According to a recent interview of Doc's management, Doc is slated to make it to Oshkosh 2015


Did the interview include anything about Thunder?



No mention of Thunder.

Here's the article,

http://www.kansas.com/news/business/aviation/article4546947.html

Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Wed Dec 24, 2014 10:27 am

Good to see Scott Yoak returning to put Quicksilver through her paces (and also allowing the kids to try a P-51 on for size). :wink:

Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Thu Dec 25, 2014 6:16 pm

World Heritage Air Museum is bringing 6 jets....a pretty big goal for our little museum.

de Havilland Vampire N115DH
de Havilland Venom N747J
Temco Super Pinto N13PJ
Aero L29 N29CZ
Aero L39 N61XX
Fouga CM170 N450PS

Our Vampire is one of 2 flying in North America, and our Venom will be the only one flying on the continent. Our Pinto is one of 3 flying period.

Hope to see you all there!

Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Fri Jan 02, 2015 8:03 pm

Excellent news, mtibbitts - thanks for bringing those 6 jets, and I hope to see them all arrive and/or display!

In fact, this thread is full of excellent news so far. The two B-29's are a highlight by themselves, but if the PB4Y was to come to Oshkosh as well (I know they wanted to come in 2010 originally, and also last year, but in 2010 they 'only' had to come from Greybull, WY, while in 2014 they were also due to appear [presumably for a fee] at ToM), AirVenture 2015 could really become an epic four-engine-fest, what with the BAHF C-97 hopefully also being ready. Just imagine if the CAF also brought 'Diamond Lil' (I don't believe the Collings Foundation ever do Oshkosh?), and NASA the Super Guppy - there might not even be enough room on the ramp for the four-engined airliners that might appear (shouldn't the Lufthansa Connie be ready by the summer? or what about the AHM Connie that was supposed to return to the air last year? - let alone DC-7 N4887C (the one in Delta colours over in Arizona) that Scramble magazine said would be making a test flight in early 2015 before being put on the airshow circuit).

Better make sure I bring enough memory cards! :-)

Roger

Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Sat Jan 03, 2015 12:28 pm

Probably just a little too much hopeful exuberance for Oshkosh 2015 here......

While I would LOVE to see these come there, from what I have recently read on these airplanes, I would say the BAHF C-97G, the Lufthansa L-1649A Starliner and the AHM L-1049H Super Connie are all highly doubtful at this point for being ready to fly to an air show by July this year.

It would be great to have all of these at Oshkosh in the hopefully not TOO distant future.

Would love to see the NASA Super Guppy, NASA Boeing 747SP "SOFIA," Boeing 747 DreamLifter and some other big airplanes like the An-225 and An-124 there though!

Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Sat Jan 24, 2015 10:30 pm

EAA has announced special days to mark Battle of Britain, VE, and VJ anniversaries, as well as some teasers concerning attending warbirds:

http://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/eaa-ai ... ar-iis-end

Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Sun Jan 25, 2015 3:16 pm

More shows this year should be celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the end of WW II.

Cheers,

Tom Walsh.

Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:21 am

I'm sure many will be doing that. After all, it will be the last chance to commemorate a major anniversary and have veterans present in any number. :(

Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Fri Feb 06, 2015 12:58 am

USMC Harrier demo returns:

http://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/eaa-ai ... re-in-2015

And once again the Yankee Air Museum is providing member excursion flights to OSH in their C-47...cool way to arrive at the big dance.

Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Sat Feb 07, 2015 1:54 am

WHF has added their Skyraider and L-39.

Might as well send the Sabre up also... A-4... P-51... just sayin'...

Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:08 pm

The folks that take care of Gannet XT752 confirming a Monday, July 20 arrival at OSH. Special display flights also being planned during the week.

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Re: The Unofficial 2015 Oshkosh thread...

Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:33 pm

^^^ OMG, what happened to that thing?!?! :hide:


mustangdriver wrote:Very proud to add my project to the list of cool events taking place at Oshkosh. We are hosting the reunion of Apollo 13. This includes members of the flight crew and mission control.

Just saw this - WHOA!! Can you say who is slated to be there?
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