AirVenture 2022 - Various Airplanes
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| Got money to burn? Get your jet on! |
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Checking out the famous Scrappy Sunday evening when the grounds were deserted.
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| The next day, it was a different story. |
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| A couple of 70% scale P-51 Mustang replicas in the Scalewings booth. I saw one fly, and from the ground you wouldn't know it wasn't the real thing. Except for the sound. The Rotax 915iS just doesn't have that famous Merlin sound. |
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| A big Boeing 777. |
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From the side.
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| For only $15K, this 60% scale JU-87 Stuka dive bomber can be yours! Taxiis great! |
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Or you could buy this unique mobile home. Impress your friends!
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| A sleek Comp Air 7 with turboprop, floats and colorful paint scheme. |
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| An even more colorful Super Chipmonk in the Aerobatic parking area. |
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| Crazy, man! |
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It seems like there were a lot of Long-EZs on hand at AirVenture this year.
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| This nice-looking FlyBaby has an interesting story. It took 53 years to build this plane. The person who started the plane in 1965 gave the project to two young men who were brothers, and they finally finished it in 2018. Now the brothers are working on a Stits Skycouple project given to them by their father. |
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An old DC-3 warhorse, still hauling passengers and freight in the Yukon!
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| You don't see too many of these: it's a Hummel H5, a single seat, homebuilt aircraft. Construction time from the supplied kit is estimated as a low 420 hours. Kits are available from the Hummel Aircraft Company. |
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| The BlackFly piloted drone. I saw it fly during the Wednesday night airshow. Sorry, but I'll pass on getting in one of these. Some guy at our airport went to some Maryland Aviation thing and came back all excited about how electric was the future of aviaiton. "It is coming!" Baloney. |
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Two Zenith CH-750s in military garb.
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Timber Tiger Aircraft has some neat airplane kits.
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| One of my favorites: Bally's Bomber B-17G, 1/3 scale. This is no radio-controlled plane. It's a single-seat homebuilt aircraft with four Hirth F-30 Two cycle piston, 85 hp each. It took 17 years and 40,000 man-hours to complete. It really is amazing what people can do. |
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| Another nice-looking Sky Baby. |
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The Ford Trimotor was busy giving rides as always.
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| A Wittman Tailwind. |
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A nice-looking Pitts Model 12.
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| A Breezy! |
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| Zenith with a snazzy paintjob. |
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| Looking through Classic Camping at the Red Barn in the Ultralight area. |
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Checking out the Ultralights.
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Camping by his Kitfox.
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Quite a few Kitfoxes this year.
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| A 1980 Max Air Hummer with original everything including sails and 25 hp Zenoah engine. |
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| AirCam booth in the Ultralight vendor area where it ought to be since it's nothing more than a twin-engine ultralight. |
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| 1947 Grumman G-73 Mallard. Manufactured from 1946 to 1951, production ended when Grumman's larger SA-16 Albatross was introduced. 59 Mallards were built. |
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Big Grumman HU-16 Albatross amphibian on the right. The Albatross was used by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Coast Guard, primarily as a search and rescue (SAR) aircraft. |
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| 1946 Grumman G-44 Widgeon. I'd love to have one of these! Originally designed for the civil market, the Widgeon is smaller, but otherwise similar to Grumman's earlier G-21 Goose, and was produced from 1941 to 1955. The aircraft was used during World War II as a small patrol and utility machine by the US Navy, US Coast Guard, and Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. |
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Beautifully polished Ercoupe.
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| A very mean-looking MX-2 taxiis by. Yeah. I wouldn't mind having one of these. |
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