AirVenture 2021 - Miscellaneous
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| Bruce in front of the famous brown arch of Oshkosh. |
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How it looks from the other side.
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| Airplane enthusiasts watching the airshow amidst some DC-3/C-47s. |
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| Boeing Square filled with a German Luftwaffe transport and a UPS 747. |
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| Looking out over the 18/36 runway. Notice how many airplanes are taxiing around. They say Wittman Field is the busiest airport in the world during this week and I believe it. |
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| The Goodyear Blimp going crazy! |
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A Chick-fil-A at the show! I never saw it when it wasn't packed.
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| Another shot of the Goodyear Blimp from the homebuilt camping section where I was parked. |
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The crowd is waiting for the daily airshow to start as an RV taxiis by.
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Don't want to build an airplane from a kit? How about building a car from a kit? Yes, you can get your car kit from Factory Five.
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| Drooling over a fancy panel put together by Stein Air. |
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You do a lot of walking at AirVenture. These massage chairs are like Venus Flytraps to tired pilots.
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| I went to a forum that was supposed to be on aircraft maintenance given by Mike Busch, who I always enjoy reading and listening to. However, Mike gave up his slot to someone from General Aviation Modifications Inc. (GAMI) to talk about the FAA's formal award at AirVenture on Tuesday of a supplemental type certificate (STC) for an unleaded 100-octane fuel. GAMI has been working on it for over ten years. Here is a good story about it. Link. The GAMI guy was pretty excited about it but what will it really mean? A microscopic reduction in lead going into the atmosphere to meet some arbitrary political directive and, of course, higher costs for pilots. |
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I went to another forum given by a customer of Air Journeys on flying vacations in Australia, France and England/Scotland. There are a number of flying vacation outfits like this. They do all the planning and arragenments and supply the airplane. One outfit even offered trips to Central/South America and Africa. I always like stopping by their booths and going to their forums. The trips are frankly out of my price range, but it is fun to dream about doing them.
I went to another forum on flying to and in Alaska and got some great tips and ideas. My next long cross-country may be to Alaska next year.
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I went to a forum on What's New in ForeFlight, which was in one of the three big forum tents. The speaker gave a brief history of ForeFlight -- the software really took off with the advent of the iPad in 2010. The iPad was the perfect vehicle to bring the ForeFlight software into the cockpit. I've been using it the past few years and have grown to love it. Being able to see your position on a Sectional Chart is fantastic. Being able to see fuel prices at each airport more than pays for the software. Now with ADS-B In, traffic and weather is integrated into the display. They really listen to their pilot customers and are constantly upgrading the software with new features or improved ways to do things. Impressive.
For the past four years, I've been getting my ADS-B In through the pack of gum-sized ForeFlight Scout. But the Scout has now been replaced by the new ForeFlight Sentry Mini, so I went ahead and bought one. I used it on the trip home. It seemed to get better and more reliable reception than the Scout. Plus, it has a built-in GPS, so I no longer have to bring along a separate GPS device (my iPad does not have its own GPS). Finally, the Sentry Mini has a much improved suction cup to stick it to the side of my canopy.
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| I stopped in the Lycoming tent and found this awesome cutaway O-360 engine. I could have spent hours watching this thing cycle through its four strokes. |
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Yes, this is the engine we need for the RV-10 project I am helping with! All it takes is money.
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