[Eric W]

Yeah, there's a bunch of those things running around up there!  

My wife is from Wisconsin and unfortunatley found myself living there for about 2-3 years, but we had enough of that State!  LOL So we moved back to Texas, where it is MUCH better weather !!!  I will say that I don't miss Wisconsin very much, nor the Appleton/Oshkosh area !  I worked all over the State Welding on Constrution jobs and am all to familiar with it for my taste.  Anyways, that is a completely different story all together!  ROFL

[Aristotle]

Yeah, I went. Parked the car, and started meandering towards the carter copter tent; 2 f-15's circled a couple of times in the first 10 minutes I was there. After a walk through the warbirds section, and then through aeroshell square (A 747 as a highlight in aeroshell square was pretty lame, however, the Harriers parked across from it made up for it). Found the carter copter tent, and began to talk to Austin when he looked at a schedule and discovered that the X-Cor rocket powered long-ez was scheduled to fly in the next half hour. So we went to look. We found it, but on the ground, and not scheduled to fly(oh well) after a few questions, austin said that the carter copter prototype was going to fly. We found it, and he told me all about it. Corvette engine, 100 lbs. depleted uranium in the rotor for extra mass, as well as other useless facts. While waiting for clearance, four more f-15's flew by and landed and a KC-135 flew over. Upon clearance, the corvette engine spooled up and the carter copter did about a ten minute flight, and the whole time, I was standing next to austin who knew enough about the carter copter that he could answer my questions. Overall, a great day, and worth the drive (about 1 hr. and 20 min) to meet austin, and see the carter copter. I'll go again next year!

[rmkonrath]

hey whats up? i flew down from anoka mn on sat mornin about 8, we had to pick our way through. at one point i was flyin and i saw lighting about half a mile of our right wing. and we're in a piper 180 cherokee. so anyways we picked our way down and about 25 miles form oshkosh. we then went to ripon and then followed the tracks to fisk. from fisk we rocked our wings. we then headed into a right downwind 4 runway 27. got a campin spot In row 510. First row after the fenced in handicaped area. it was awesome. we had to leave sun for football. but we looked areound on sat and sun morning. also had a pancake breakfast. we flew back to oshkosh mon morning. again easy flight but lots more traffic at rippon/fisk/oskosh. this time we proceeded to runway 18 L u think landing on 18 is hard try landing on 18 L its so skinny. so anywasy we stayed till fri morning and flew back. since we were vfr we had to finda  gap in the clouds and got up above them. we got up to 11500 feet in our cherokee. on the way back to anoka we stoped in new richmond and  got a ride from a nice elderly peolple to a champs. we then went back to anoka, what a great trip

later

[Anchovyguy]

heres my story:

it started yesterday, my dad's friend has a cessna 182 so while we were starting off down the runway a cow walked out from the farm next door.  with some quick rudder work and a lot of luck, we got over the obstical and...well...i was going to make up some other stuff but the osbornes are on so...ill finish this when i actually go...lol  :p

[Freaky7878]

What Day was that???   4 F15s? There was only 2 That I know of.


What Time did the Carter Copter Fly.....besides when it came in?

The 747 wasnt really ment for the highlight.. but it carried icelanders over...so they kept it out for all to look at. The KC-10 Was the Highlight I think. It was Huge

It is really awesome though.

I saw Both flights of the Ez Rocket. Pretty Amazing peice of Craft. I cant wait till they are through with there ez long testbed craft and they start making the real airplane.

[Mahesh]

Tell us more about Austin, Rutan and whatever else!

Very interestig indeed!

Anybody else have Oshkosh stories?

[Eric W]

Ahh, Oshkosh!  There is not another airshow quite like it in my opinion.  Although, it has been many years since I have been to the show there, still brings back some good memories...

[Eric W]

I sure that it isn't their final version, either....

[jkallinen]

You stopped in Mankato for fuel, geez I`m only 25 miles up 14
from there! Shoulda got your fuel in New Ulm, I would have set
you up with some CD`s to take to Austin!!  Oh well!  Glad you
and the wife had good time Curt.

[Freaky7878]

Hey just got back! HAD THE BEST TIME!

Well here is a short but sweet Story.


I was in the NASA hanger and they had acouple sims set up demanstrating stuff went for a closer look it was X-plane set up on a MAC Laptop

Although they also had a sim of there own there. I was listioning to this Engineer speak about Testing Models when there was a loud roar of a F-15 Flying over and wow......over 50 people Ran ...more like sprinted out of the hangers...it was very cool.

Although I looked at the Carter Copter Tent acouple times I never did see Austin.


Ill post some pics later.