Derek and Frank Smidler in RV-6 N96FS flying to OSH 2009
Heading to OSH from LAF after morning weather delay.
Met up with Wayne (RV-8A) and Mark Burns (RV-7A) at Rochelle, IL for flight of 3 into OSH.
Mark Burns in RV-7A
OSH 2009 Arrival, Heading to pattern for 27.
Trailing Mark Burns, Wayne and several other trailers in downwind to 27.
Bonanza pilot leading us way to far north and east in pattern.
OSH 9/27 and North 40 parking
Saturday and Camp Scholler already filling up.
Warbird area still empty.
OSH, We have arrived.
Display area East of RV A/C area still pretty much empty on Saturday before opening day on Monday.
Following Wayne into the Homebuilt Aircraft Camping (HBC) area.
RV parking (aircraft type, not motorhome type)
Setting up our campsites during a light rain that stopped as soon as we were finished.
N96FS camp site.
Frank Smidler, proud owner/builder of RV-6, N96FS
Frank Smidler and Mark Burns with their aircrafts completed in the last year.
Could not fit a table into the RV-6 so Derek had to make due.
N96FS amoung the hords of RV's and other homebuilts
Estimate that 80% of the homebuilt camping aircrafts were RV's
Looking West From the HBC building
Mr. Cool next to his airplane
Trying to be cooler than Dad
“Yea, I flew this little hot rod in”
Three man tent just large enough for two.
Headrest idea
Nice paint
Dave Sloan “Sloanie” with his RV-3. Everyone was talking about his paint job.
Our campsite was 4 rows from the back, just this side of the trees
Electric airplane made in China
White Knight 2 on the ground in AeroShell Square
Ford Tri-Motor next to Ford Tent
Derek and White Knight 2
Canadian WWII Lancaster bomber
Elvis, Australian fire fighting helicopter
P-51C in Tuskegee Airman Paint
Cessna Bamboo Bomber, used in WWII for training
If you like RV-6's or -7's how could you not like the Swift Fury.
White Knight 2
Crowd on Flight Line watching White Knight fly-by
Airbus A380, It is Huge
The Zen Master, Richard VanGrunsven, showing how the RV-12 wings come off
Wednesday Morning, up early, dew on the airplane
HBC filled up and they had to move a fence over into a car parking lot to make more room.
P-51 Mustang Corral
Corsair
Lowrance, Mark, Jackie and Derek just before Lowrance and Mark leave for home in Louisiana
Mark and Lowrance Leaving Wednesday Morning
This is what Derek wants to fly
Airbus A380 on the ground in AeroShell Square
Can see Derek better than the inside of the boat
Taxing from North to South along show center for departure on 36L
Airbus A380 towering over everything else
Elvis, the fire bombing helicopter
Departing OSH after take off on 36L and making 150 degree turn to the south
Lake Winnebago, Oshkosh, WI
Approaching a hazy Chicago
Lake Michigan shore line north of Chicago
VFR route under O'hair Class B along lake shore
Wrigley field north of Chicago's downtown
Chicago
This is sure a lot faster than the Tri-state
Soilder Field were da'bears play
Cellular Field were the Chicago White Sox's Play.
Final leg over Northern Indiana on the way to KLAF
