Oshkosh 2024 - Who's going?

ktup-flyer said:
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unfortunately I'm imagining having a beer with you guys up at OSH. enjoy and I hope someone (who's name rhymes with shmave shmeisen) does a bunch of funnels at SOS.
 
Ed Haywood said:
Can't find STOL contests on the schedule. Anyone know the timing for those?
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They were during Twilight Flight Fest M/Tu/Th. There’s a seminar in the Ultralight Forums tent today @1130.
 
Ed Haywood said:
Can't find STOL contests on the schedule. Anyone know the timing for those?
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I was there on the outside of the fence watching them last night when you posted. The ultra lights landed and the stol race was on at twilight. First time I watched one in person.
Made me anixious to get home into my plane.
 
Just finalized my plans and will be flying in tomorrow morning and back out sometime on Sunday. Watching that Sunday weather.

First time for me.
 
Dave Theisen said:
Well damn. Because of the crappy cell coverage, I didn’t see this until it was too late.
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I had terrible service up there too (T-mobile, name + shame... :incazzato:). Someone brought in a couple of portable cell towers over by the red barn, so signal was always good, but data rates were under 10kb/s. They must have a backhaul problem...wonder if they're literally trying to rebroadcast to some distant towers and saturating the link at the other end?
 
We arrived yesterday at 1300 in a flight of two. I flew in echelon left about 100m off wing from Endeavor to Ripon. Slipped into trail from there to Fisk, wound up hitting prop wash about 8 times and getting wings rocked 45 degrees a few times. After a while I figured out that offsetting high a bit would keep me out of the wash. Stayed tight until base to final turn for 36R. Lead missed tower instruction to land on red square at midfield and landed basically on the numbers. I floated along behind him at MCA to the mark while he taxied at 60mph.

It was as much fun as I have ever had flying.
 
My last day here. Please say hi if you see me. I’m the middle aged white guy in cargo shorts. :)

(@eman1200 will be along shortly to point out that I’m not so “middle” anymore. :) )

Seriously, if anyone wants to meet up, post it here and hopefully it will go through.
 
Lowflynjack said:
Rich’s presentation is so full that people were bringing chairs from other forums!!
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You know, when your hobby is going to the middle of nowhere by yourself, or with maybe a couple friends, it's kind of hard to get a sense of whether or not anyone else is interested in doing the same kind of flying. What a blast to see so many other people think this stuff is cool! And what a great view from my side of the morning.

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Dave Theisen said:
My last day here. Please say hi if you see me. I’m the middle aged white guy in cargo shorts. :)

(@eman1200 will be along shortly to point out that I’m not so “middle” anymore. :) )

Seriously, if anyone wants to meet up, post it here and hopefully it will go through.
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Have you been to the beer coffin?
 
Watching the airshow and having a couple afternoon beers in row 506 in the N40 if anybody is real bored.
 
Oh oh oh… if your first time, you must say the Beer prayer… and tell him Tools says hi!
 
And alas, he is gone today. Next year for the beer coffin.
 
Jim K said:
Watching the airshow and having a couple afternoon beers in row 506 in the N40 if anybody is real bored.
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Swung by and missed you guys. You must have gone to the beer coffin which wasn’t there. What are you all doing tonight? Trying to decide if I’m coming back out after dinner.
 
Dave Theisen said:
Swung by and missed you guys. You must have gone to the beer coffin which wasn’t there. What are you all doing tonight? Trying to decide if I’m coming back out after dinner.
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We had a very mediocre pizza at the N40 restaurant, and made a move to watch arrivals on 27, which have now ceased.
 
Groundpounder said:
My biggest issue is the heat/humidity. I had a battery powered fan going in the tent all night, and that helped a little but waking up clammy and damp just isn't my jam.
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I came up with my modified swamp cooler, ran it off the car battery. Frozen water bottles and a bit of dry ice from the local fire supply kept the tent camper cool enough to fall asleep. The breeze Monday and Tuesday nights helped a lot.
 
whitepines said:
I had terrible service up there too (T-mobile, name + shame... :incazzato:). Someone brought in a couple of portable cell towers over by the red barn, so signal was always good, but data rates were under 10kb/s. They must have a backhaul problem...wonder if they're literally trying to rebroadcast to some distant towers and saturating the link at the other end?
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Cell service sucked over most of the town. Ended up at the Panera’s on the north side to get anything done.
 
One thing that I did note this year….
10 years ago, the only kids at Oshkosh were the ones forced to go on vacation with their grandparents.

This year I saw a much higher percentage of kids and young adults than I have noted in the past. I think YouTube and the current flight training drive could have a lot to do with that. After all, what is cooler than being able to fly your own plane?

The few I talked to seemed to be as enthusiastic about aircraft and flying as we were at that age!

One young man camping next to us with his family is 17, has been flying for three years, and already has his LSRM from Rainbow, logging hours for his AP as a helper for a local shop. The family owns a 150 for all three kids to build time and train in. (Dad is NOT in aviation).

The last conversation I had with them, they were considering buying an unfinished Kitfox as a family project.

Maybe there is some hope for this hobby in the future.
 
Ed Haywood said:
Thanks! We caught the Twilight Fest last night. Great show.
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Yup. I caught it Friday night (remotely). We’re going to be there in person again next year!

And we have rented RVs from local companies for a few years now. Generally, it has been pretty good, and if there are problems with the RV, they will come out and repair or even swap out the RV. Unfortunately, the company we were using is no longer renting them, so I don’t have a good suggestion. it was very convenient, however.
 
FlyingElvii said:
I came up with my modified swamp cooler, ran it off the car battery. Frozen water bottles and a bit of dry ice from the local fire supply kept the tent camper cool enough to fall asleep. The breeze Monday and Tuesday nights helped a lot.
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Cool McGevering...
This year the weather seemed to be cooler than average. Really awesome over all. The second or third day it was getting dusty and I was hoping for rain. We got it over night, that took care of the dust for another 36-48 hours.
We were in the 24/7 genset area but did not run the generator past 7PM or so for AC and slept with just the 12 volt DC exhaust fan on low running in the bathroom sucking fresh air through all night. No one else that I heard ran their gensets after dark this year since it was so cool. Great sleeping weather.
 
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Dave Theisen said:
My last day here. Please say hi if you see me. I’m the middle aged white guy in cargo shorts. :)
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So I would have to grip and grin with the 10000 similarly attired “Middle Aged” men before actually meeting you?

Seriously, nice to see all of you t the Brown Arch Photo Op
 
FlyingElvii said:
I think YouTube and the current flight training drive could have a lot to do with that.
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I think free youth admission has a lot to do with that.
Ed Haywood said:
Last night over Scotch, the Fellowship of the Gas Can voted unanimously to stay another day. Looking forward to the Saturday night airshow!

Also I tried cheese curds for the first time. Wow, but also yikes.
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Cheese curd quality varies wildly. The ones on the show grounds are meh. The Hangar restaurant has pretty good ones. Actually that pretty well sums up all the food here.
 
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