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May Aviation Fix...

By Dusty (AKA Attila of Argghhh!) on May 7, 2010 | | Comments (14)
A little something for everybody...enjoy.

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By Andrewp1040 on May 7, 2010 6:41 PM
WOW!!!! that vid was great . . . . . . just makes me wish one or two things . . . 1 that i had the money to buy/restore some toys like that or more likely 2 was able to attend events like that more then once in a long while.
 
By The Neon Madman on May 7, 2010 10:12 PM
Ah, yes, Airventure. I happen to live about 15 miles north of Wittman Field in Oshkosh, and about 5 miles away from the Outagamie County Airport in Appleton. During Airventure, because of crowding at Wittman Field, a number of planes are staged at the Outagamie County Airport. Kind of like an overflow parking lot for airplanes. One of these is the EAA's restored B-17, the Aluminum Overcast. My house happens to be directly under the flight path that the B-17 takes when it flies between the two airports. A dozen times during the week that Airventure is on, I'll hear the rumble of the engines and step outside to watch that big old guy motor over my house at about 500 feet.

Man, that's a beautiful sight.

If you're ever up in this neck of the woods, stop in and check out the EAA Air Museum. A lot of people think that the only things that fly in Wisconsin are the mosquitos, but the EAA has put together a pretty nice place of their own. Hell of an air show in the summer, too.
   
By BillT on May 8, 2010 2:24 AM
Hey! The intro said "SlicK" and there wasn't one single Huey!

Okay, that  probably wasn't as funny as it would have been forty years ago.
 
By Ron Snyder on May 8, 2010 6:51 AM
BillT, the number of people that know what a Slick was is most debinately on a downward trend. ;)
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 8, 2010 8:10 AM
Even though I've seen this before (Dusty sent it out in email last year) I thought the same thing, Bill.  Whete's Hubert?
 
By MikeLM on May 8, 2010 9:35 AM

Attended the EAA show quite a few years ago.  It has obviously gotten bigger since then

A few years later we decided to visit the EAA Museum there. I expected an old hangar with a couple of vintage planes in it. Instead, it's one of the most elaborate and sophisticated museums I've ever been in.  If you are ever in the vicinity, don't miss the chance to visit.! If you have the slightest interest in airplanes and aviation you will love it.

It compares really well with the USAF museum in Dayton, the SAC museum in Lincoln, and the Naval Aviation museum in Pensacola.  For an old tin can sailor, I get really wound up about airplanes.

 
By Barb on May 8, 2010 10:10 AM
Love the vid - even without proper representation by a Huey. I noticed an abundance of A-10's, tho.  Hmmmmm.
 
By BillT on May 8, 2010 10:59 AM
That wasn't an abundance of A-10s -- they just happened to be where the camera was pointing.

There's a reason they're called Warthogs yanno...
 
By Attila on May 8, 2010 2:30 PM
There is no such thing as "bad publicity," Bill...

 
By Casey on May 8, 2010 2:54 PM
Well, Bill, they did show a Bell Sioux for a moment. :)

Some of the shots were great: my faves include the formation flying of a Mustang, Lightning, Sabre and Warthog; a Mosquito, a Lancaster!, autogiro, and even a Bf-108.

 
By JohnW on May 8, 2010 3:45 PM
Oh my goodness, did you see the wings on that.... 747?  Dreamliner?... flex when it was landing, about 50 seconds in?  They were practically flapping.

Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, PA has a great WW2 airshow every year.  June 4-6 this year.
http://www.maam.org/maamwwii.html
 
By BillT on May 8, 2010 4:07 PM
Airbus 380. The composite wings are designed to flex to some extent, but that was a tad excessive.

Maintenance inspected all the parts and found nothing broken. If an aluminum wing flexed that much, they would have had a couple of fuel leaks, for sure.
 
By Fred on May 9, 2010 1:12 AM
"The airplane is probably still going to be useable" Dan Gryder, Avweb. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIG1ZOPLJA