July 30, 2004 - AirVenture 04 Day One |
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The Mecca of Aviation. The weather this day wasn't that great. In fact, we had to break out the ponchos for a couple of hours. The airshow was abbreviated a little bit. That said, we had a great day just looking at all the planes and checking out all the vendor booths. |
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Stemmes motorglider. Top of the line. World-class glider
performance and it has two-seats and an engine! Only problem is it costs
in the neighborhood of $200,000.
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| A Sonex on floats. Interesting. | ||||
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| This Sopwith Pup replica has a 350 horsepower radial engine on it! The real thing back in 1918 had 80 horsepower. Think those World War I pilots would have liked to have the 350 horses? | ||||
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| I like these big amphibians. | ||||
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| Cool 3/4 scale Bearcat. | ||||
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| One of Bruce's favorites: an F4F Wildcat. | ||||
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| It's hard to see but in this picture of a B-25, there must have been over 1000 rivets just in the part you see here. | ||||
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| There was a company that restores Stearman's. This example of their work was stunning; absolutely perfect. Seriously, I could not even find the fabric seams on the tail feathers. Having done two fabric jobs, I was in awe of their work. | ||||
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| Nice Cub on skiis with an unusual prop cover. | ||||
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