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AirVenture 2009 Video
Here is a wonderful video from AirVenture 2009 that is making a big splash on YouTube and beyond. I don’t know the young man who created it but he did a great job.
Continue readingAirVenture 2009 – Part 2
After coffee and donuts at the Aces Cafe, Saturday morning found us back at the Forums Plaza. I chose the Safe Single Pilot IFR presentation for this session. Now that I have started on my instrument rating, this is of special interest to me. I picked up some good tips from Doug Stewart’s talk. We […]
Continue readingAirVenture 2009 – Part 1
Georgia and I left for Oshkosh early Friday morning and got to Whittman Field about 9AM. Just in time to get our wrist bands and make it over to Forums Plaza for Rod Machado’s 10 o’clock presentation. So, we got to start off the show with a good laugh. After watching Rod, we walked down […]
Continue readingAirVenture 2009 Opens Today
Today is the opening day of EAA AirVenture 2009 at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Georgia and I will be there later in the week but, for now, I can only watch from the sidelines. There are some ways that those of us who can not attend or who are going later can follow the action from a […]
Continue readingBack From St. Louis and Looking Forward to Oshkosh
Georgia attended the Klic-N-Kut digital die cutting seminar in St. Louis over the weekend and I tagged along. She learned a lot while I got to relax for a few days. I did help out with some video recording of the sessions and helped the ladies carry their machines but, for the most part, I […]
Continue readingMore AirVenture 2008 Photos
Click the picture to the left or go to http://picasaweb.google.com/tclough1/Airventure2008 to view an online album with a few more AirVenture 2008 pictures. I also added a link to a Harrier video to the opening day post and a JetPack video link to the JetPack post. Look for the links within the posts or click the […]
Continue readingAirVenture 2008 – Back Home Wednesday
We checked out of the hotel early Wednesday but, made one last visit to AirVenture before driving back home. This morning, we went to the Affordable Flying Center for a forum on aircraft ownership. Presenter Mark Scott gave us some very good tips on how to own an airplane for less than the cost of […]
Continue readingAirVenture 2008 – Jet Pack Tuesday
The one Tuesday highlight we didn’t want to miss was the unveiling of the Martin Jetpack. From the talk I had been hearing around the grounds, everyone else wanted to see it fly too. The Jetpack unveiling was probably the most hyped event of the show and was scheduled for 9:30AM. When we got to […]
Continue readingAirVenture 2008 – Opening Day Monday
The official opening of AirVenture 2008! My top priorities for the day were to pick up my “free” SPOT Satellite Messenger and to see the unveiling of the Icon A5. We had breakfast at the motel and were at AeroShell Square by 8:30 AM. The Icon unveiling was scheduled for 10 o’clock, so I went […]
Continue readingAirVenture 2008 – Pre-show Sunday
Georgia and I made the two and a half hour drive to Oshkosh on Sunday morning and went directly to Wittman Regional Airport, site of AirVenture 2008. Monday will be the official kickoff day but, getting there a day early gave us an opportunity to get oriented without fighting the huge crowd to come. After […]
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