The Roxy Supper Club, downtown Oshkosh…


Not quite the the funnel utensils of AKTAHOE1's dinner house, but close second for OregonMaule and me, best kept secret of OSH, great round bar, worth the 1-2 hour wait, good people……..some great times…...

My favorite of the show so far... (South 40)

Helicopter I don't need no stinking helicopter.

This was interesting, never have seen this, doing a nose wheel conversation for a Wilga………...

I like how Kevin's last picture was more blurry than the rest. It gives us a good feel for how the night progressed.

Great time watching everyone at the STOL exhibitions at the ultralight grass strip and the crowd asking the rock stars questions at the fence afterwards, but at the end of the day when you're not flying, Oregonmaule helps you focus on what else is important in life, courtesy the Roxy…….

Just got back to Oregon. 66° and had some rain earlier in the day. I'll take this wx over Oshkosh any day. We had a great time.

The high light for me was a 2 hour presentation by Mr. Dick Rutan on his non stop around the world flight in Voyager. Dick really is a great speaker!

Oh man. I had way too much fun. That was the best osh so far.

We had a great time too! Highlite for us was Dick's brother Burt giving a presentation on his "last" home built the "SkiGull", super cool! Good public speaking runs in the Rutan family.

Must say we had an awesome 5 days at Osh. For those from far away places that can't fly in and camp I've got to say its so well organised nothing is a problem. Traveling with young kids is not always easy and I had visions of traffic jams, waiting ages for a cab and lines of people queuing. We didn't experience any of that- in fact most evenings we walked straight up and jumped in a cab back to our Motel. Not to mention the rides from our BCP friends (thanks Zenithguy and OregonMaule). The excellent organization and super friendly people has left a very pleasant and lasting impression, so much so my wife just asked when we intend going back

NZMaule wrote:Must say we had an awesome 5 days at Osh. For those from far away places that can't fly in and camp I've got to say its so well organised nothing is a problem. Traveling with young kids is not always easy and I had visions of traffic jams, waiting ages for a cab and lines of people queuing. We didn't experience any of that- in fact most evenings we walked straight up and jumped in a cab back to our Motel. Not to mention the rides from our BCP friends (thanks Zenithguy and OregonMaule). The excellent organization and super friendly people has left a very pleasant and lasting impression, so much so my wife just asked when we intend going back

It was great to meet you and your family Ivor. I hope we cross paths again one day. Till then we will have to trade stories right here.

Cheers...Rob

That's a great picture Rob!

Twenty four point three hours flight time round trip.....a great trip, and as always, Airventure was worth the trip.

Burt Rutan gave a slightly less formal presentation on the Ski Gull at the SPA Corn Roast Thursday night. He noted that if only half his projections come to pass on this plane, It'll be a fantastic machine. Very interesting project to say the least.....for example: Projected 46 hour range at 17% power on a Rotax 912 is. Hawaii to the mainland on 46 gallons of gas. Registered as a motor glider, so no LSA restrictions, and no medical required...as usual with this guy, brilliant.

MTV

I enjoyed Burt Rutan's talk at the SPA Corn Roast. That event was marred a little by a mouthy guy sitting across from me who wouldn't stop talking throughout the evening, except when I asked him to because Rutan had already started talking. He turned around, saw it was Rutan, and said, "Oh, Burt Rutan--I gotta hear this!" Then at the moment Rutan stopped talking, loudmouth was back at it again. But the food was good, the beer was good, the table company was good other than loudmouth--I sat with a bunch of Icon staff, a very upbeat, optimistic crowd.

Ran into Rob (Oregon Maule) at an EAA tent, and I've already forgotten the guy with him--my memory isn't what it used to be. Otherwise, saw a lot of old friends from past OSH's, attended a couple of parties, and made new friends in the North 40 where I was camped. Got my tent dinged by Saturday morning's storm--tent and poles on the way to Big Agnes for repairs--but it survived well enough to make it through the week.

Coming in was different. I was on an IFR flight plan Friday, intending to cancel before RIPON and go in VFR. But soon after I was in Madison airspace, ATC called and said that Milwaukee Approach was concerned about whether I'd make it to OSH before the airport closed. I'd not changed my watch, and ol' Dummy here forgot about the time difference. So I firewalled my airplane--gained all of maybe 10 mph and the flow went up to over 13 gph--and when I got into Milwaukee Approach airspace, I asked him to check with OSH to make sure they'd let me in without following the RIPON approach. There was a long pause while he called OSH tower, and then he said I was cleared direct OSH. About then, I could see the airport, so I told him, and he cleared me for a visual to 36L--second to last airplane in, about 4 minutes before they closed the airport.

I didn't leave until Monday early afternoon--second to last to leave the North 40. Total time in the air, approximately 15 1/2 hours. I had a late lunch of a marvelous omelet at Dubuque--Chris who runs the cafe at the airport terminal really makes a great one. I overnighted in Grand Island--just too tired to continue after fighting a 30 knot headwind and a couple of hours of hand-flown IFR. But the stay in the Holiday Inn at GRI was great--one of the nicest HI's I've ever been in. The flight home in the morning began in a light drizzle, but within 15 minutes it was a nice clear flight the rest of the way home--still a bit of a headwind, but that's normal.

Great time. It's always good to get home, but it's also always a bit disappointing when it's all over.

Cary

Cary, I remember taking a PA-12 into OSH once, (Ripon Fisk). Halfway across Wisconsin I knew it was going to start getting tight timewise, so pushed it up (well, as fast as you can push up a PA-12 with 18 gear). Was in line with a bunch of other stuff when they announced the field would be closing in 2 minutes. At that point chaos broke out and everybody in our nice orderly procession coming in from the west dove for the end of 36 at an angle. It was a bit like trying to come around a cloverleaf and merge onto a busy freeway where no one wants to let you in (I can still see the bare metal 206 that blasted right by me). But we all finally got sorted without too much trauma and the tower kinda' stretched the time a little.

(Didn't help that I accidentally banged into the radio master switch during the approach and turned it off. So a zoo everywhere and I'm not hearing anybody. Finally figured that one out "why is that switch down?" ohh..
was properly chastised by the controller. )