Great fly in thus far. I drove in and set up camp yesterday afternoon. Weather has been kind of cruddy but everyone has been flying between showers.

A few pics


Out the tent this morning





More to come. Getting a lot of action on video.

A raw video clip from Friday night. Fun was had by all. I plan on doing a full trip report soon. I took over 400 pictures and over an hour of video.

Looking forward to it. Thanks for reporting on this event!

Should be fun to watch!!
Gota Make it back there soon!!

Crzyivan13 wrote:

A raw video clip from Friday night. Fun was had by all. I plan on doing a full trip report soon. I took over 400 pictures and over an hour of video.

Yeehaw. I'm looking forward to the full report!

Tried to make it, but got fogged in friday in bennington vt. Low clouds and rain through today.

Here's another teaser while you wait.

I will share my TR with you in two different ways. The easy TR for me is the one with pictures. I will admit I probably spent more time filming the action than taking pictures. I love to take pictures but I am really starting to enjoy making videos a little bit more. That will come later.

So...... Back to what everyone is really interested in, the action!

I arrived on Friday afternoon at KPHD via my truck. Here was the welcome sign in the square in New Philadelphia, Ohio:


































From Arth we jumped Interstate 77 and played in the Fiesta Bowl across way. (That may make it into the video). Then we were off to Emslies STD awareness course. The wart was my base for operations for about 30-40 minutes while I took pictures and video. There is a good description of the STD Awareness Course in Greg's video: https://vimeo.com/54235239























After a tasty meal at the restaurant on the airport, and a movie of some of the boys hunting coyotes from their Super Cubs, we BS'ed by the campfire for a few hours before turning in.

















The Local EAA Chapter held a pancake breakfast for us, and the local community in their awesome hangar. The hangar kept everyone dry during waking hours. Some people slept in the loft above the office area also! Nice accommodations for sure!! (I didn't get any pictures, however.)
























Next stop: Petroleum Point at Graham's place.




























From there we hit the gravel bars in the river.














And from there we were back to Emslies!






More video to come.........


















You know, I didn't fly in to the fly in. I was bummed about that. But I still got to experience everything thanks to a bunch of awesome people. The Ohio Bush Planes fly in is a destination for everyone, from local people who want to see a bunch of backcountry airplanes, to real bush pilots, and to wannabe's too. All are welcome here. Odds are pretty dang good that the OBP inspired a few more youngins this past weekend to get into aviation too. Everybody loves big tires!!!!

If they say they don't, it's just cause they are jealous.

Nice TR!! I had so much fun the year that I went. This makes me long to return.

Not sure why I look like a mermaid coming out of the pump-jack but other than that you do great work! If those pipelines crap out on you I'm sure Natty Geo will pick you up. Thanks for documenting the debauchery and being a bro in general!

Great Shots Evan, bummed I couldn't make it. The shutdown had me a bit worried but were back to work now. Did the 150 do any off field stuff? Thanks again

Great pictures! Looks like you guys had a blast!

Mr. Breeden brought sexy back showing up in that 150! He bagged "The Wart" at Emslie's STD Awareness Aerocross Course.
--It was the same hill where I met Breeden oh so long ago as he climbed barefoot out of his beloved orange Cub after showing us how to back down a hill without beta.

You could pretty much say that he was having more fun than should be allowed with wheel pants on. Bob is the man!

FARMAULE, glad to hear you are back to work! Would've been cool to have a maule there with all the Supercub guys.

I need to get back there one day for certain! Nice TR!

Jump and Duck sure looks like fun!

Is that your old pacer Highroad?

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Like FARMAULE, I really wanted to be there, but the shutdown had nothing to do with my absence. Our son is getting married in a couple of weeks and my honeydo list before company comes had me tied in knots most of the weekend. I head that FARMAULE made it to Cedar Crest where I keep my plane, but I wasn't there. I need to go flying with him soon. Hopefully a year from now we'll both show up at the OBP gathering. There is a lot I'm not comfortable trying with my Maule yet, and it will hurt to have a 150 outfly me, but that's the way the learning curve bends...

Evan - I just stumbled into your pictures and video. (I still can't find my way around here). There was some playing up here yesterday too.
Thanks for going to the fly-in and for taking charge of the picture taking! See you soon. John

Almost exactly a month later, I finally got a video up. I just forced myself to do it last night. It was my first honest attempt at narration and a quasi docu-vid, but it turned out good.





I must say the narration is the most difficult thing in the whole process. Not only what to say, but how to say it. I didnt write anything down, because I would have to hear what it sounded like in relationship to the video anyway. My computer crashed a couple times and my puter is pretty darn quick. I lost some audio in the opening and forgot to re record it after the crash so the first round of narration stayed in . So I was pausing and saying uhh, uhh, uhh, a lot. But I got the awkward pauses figured out after that.

Crzyivan13 wrote:Almost exactly a month later, I finally got a video up. I just forced myself to do it last night. It was my first honest attempt at narration and a quasi docu-vid, but it turned out good.

Great job!