Category Archives for airshows

Northern Illinois Airshow – Wings Over Waukegan

​We picked Max up after school on Friday and then on Saturday we all went to the Northern Illinois Airshow at Waukegan National Airport. We got to the airport a couple hours before the actual airshow was to start, set up lawn chairs to save out spot and then walked around the grounds to see the […]

AirVenture 2015 – Part 3

Friday – Seaplane Base I hopped a shuttle bus out to the seaplane base Friday morning. It is always much more peaceful out there, away from the crowd at the main show grounds. Still, there were more people there than I have seen on any previous visit. Maybe the word is getting out.   There […]

AirVenture 2015 – Part 2

Tuesday-  Shopping Day I attended two forums on Tuesday. The first was FAA Section 333 Exemptions presented by Drone Media Group. This FAA exemption deals with using drones commercially in the United States. During the talk I learned that every commercial drone flight requires the UAV to be operated by a licensed pilot. That means […]

AirVenture 2015 – Part 1

Pre-show Weekend Georgia and I returned to AirVenture this year after missing last year. We left home the Friday afternoon before opening day and drove the three hours to Sleepy Hollow Farm where we had a water, electric and sewer site reserved. That electricity was welcome when the temperatures reached near 90. Ahhh..air conditioning. Once […]

AirVenture 2015 – Here We Come!

AirVenture 2015 is coming up the end of July. I bought weekly tickets for Georgia and I and reserved a space for our travel trailer. We will be staying at Sleep Hollow Farms again this year. Sleepy Hollow Farms is just as close to the action as the EAA camping but we get water, electric […]

AirVenture 2013 – Part 2

Thursday morning I got the campground shuttle over to the bus park then got on the Seaplane Base bus. The atmosphere at the lake is completely different from that at the main show area. It is very peaceful and laid-back out there. If you go to Oshkosh, you should spend some time at the Seaplane […]

AirVenture 2013 – State of Bliss

Part two of our AirVenture experience will be coming soon. In the meantime here is Slick’s video compilation for 2013. He always does a great job of capturing the essence of Oshkosh. http://youtu.be/N3ggFwtccmY

AirVenture 2013 – Part 1

This was the first time that Georgia and I planned to spend the whole week at AirVenture and the first time we would take a trailer there to live in for that week. We hitched up Sunday morning and made the three hour drive to Sleepy Hollow Farm Campground in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. There are a […]

Wings Over Waukegan

Saturday was a great day for an airshow. Blue skies with some puffy clouds provided a beautiful background for the aircraft in flight over the Waukegan airport. The 70 degree temperature and a brisk breeze made it cool out on the ramp but I prefer that to sweltering in the heat. All the pilots handled […]

Waukegan Airshow 2011