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Wild Will
08-10-2006, 12:28 PM
To those who might enjoy seeing a trip to Oshkosh from the
West coast. Spectacular stuff.




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Tipstall
08-10-2006, 12:57 PM
That was great, thanks.

Ken
Deano
08-10-2006, 01:10 PM
Now that was cool!
Promethean
08-10-2006, 01:28 PM
Way cool!
geechie
08-10-2006, 01:29 PM
Way, way cool!! I really wish I could do that. Radial engines and tail-draggers.

George
1MPH
08-10-2006, 03:41 PM
Outstanding, Wild Wild, thanks for the ride along.
Road Dog
08-10-2006, 03:43 PM
Was he flying a Maule?
DJ Down Under
08-10-2006, 04:04 PM
Wow!!!..spectacular pics..thanks for posting it WW...I'm going back for a second look...:thumb:

DJ
Deans BMW
08-10-2006, 04:57 PM
Man oh man, I miss flying. great pics.
CycleRob
08-15-2006, 04:12 PM
Great pics!
I copied several of them to my "scenery" folder.

You really can't imagine how big the USA is until you DRIVE across it.
Deans BMW
08-15-2006, 04:48 PM
The real trip is flying across in a 65 Horse J 3 with out any electrics, hand prop and nothing but grass fields.
jamming
08-15-2006, 08:57 PM
Yes, an M7 Maule, good ass airplane.

I've had the honor of attending Oshkosh 5 times, flown in 3 times. Man, if your an airplane nut this is the place to be. Last time for me was 10 years ago.

Roger
Tassie Devil
08-16-2006, 07:46 AM
Abso-bloody-lutly amazing pics..

Cheers,

JQ
JCsman
08-16-2006, 08:56 AM
OUTSTANDING!

About 100 years ago, when I was a young man, I took flying lessons including a 1948 Champ. Heady stuff for me. Life/wife/kids changed my direction (and I'm aware of how blessed my life is with those changes). But I am a bit (OK, a big-stonkin'-hairy bit) jealous of your trip.

Thanks for sharing. Oh yeah, I ripped off a couple of the pics as well. Good stuff.
Capt. Blackadder
08-16-2006, 10:53 AM
Awesome pics, thanks for sharing!

My dad lives in Sweden and works as an airplane mechanic/restorer. In the summer of 1999, he flew, with the plane's owner, a 1940 Klemm Kl 35 (http://www.avrosys.nu/aircraft/Skol/414Sk15.htm), that he had restored, straight across the US from Georgia to California. They turned around, flew into western Arizona and stored the plane with a friend over the winter. The following summer they came back, collected the plane and flew back to Georgia, then put it in a container and shipped it back to Sweden.

It was a trip to see them when they stopped by here in my neck of the woods. Overalls, leather helmets, goggles, the whole bit. They did navigate via GPS, but as far as I know that was the sole concession to modern technology.
DarthRider
08-17-2006, 05:00 PM
Wild Willie -
Great planes, great trip, great pics!
I have about 40 jumps from an old Howard like those...I think a "DGA"? Other oldies were a Beaver, a Gullwing Stinson, 1924 Fairchild bush plane, J4 Cub & Cessna 140 (sitting sideways in the doors), a C-47, and missed a C-119 jump by *that* much when I couldn't "borrow" a military ID in time. Those were the days...
Last year a Peckerhead buddy had his 100% perfect 1
Must have been a killer time...did you fill up beer bottles in the air? A relief tube? A "Sneaky Leaker"? I worry about things like that...and when you're my age, you will too!
And WW, I must ask...you didn't crash did you??
Wild Will
08-17-2006, 07:17 PM
Dangerous, i was merely caught up in a repetitious day dream where i am Sgt. York, plowing the rock strewn mountain land and about to plow Maybelle's fertile bottom land, when all that dirt, rock and assfault come up on me, real fast. I have that dream a lot; and i am a somnabulist, so excuse me when your arse is parked next to mine at Dean-O's Bunkhouse...
DarthRider
08-17-2006, 07:39 PM
Wild Will said:
"...and about to plow Maybelle's fertile bottom land..."

Got any more info on Maybelle's fertile bottom land?
Got pics?
Road Dog
08-18-2006, 09:43 AM
Yes, an M7 Maule, good ass airplane.

I've had the honor of attending Oshkosh 5 times, flown in 3 times. Man, if your an airplane nut this is the place to be. Last time for me was 10 years ago.

Roger

I learned to fly from a guy called Captain Guts. He used to deliver and demo Maules. I had the pleasure of accompanying him on a delivery. First he demo'd a M7 on wheels by flying it out of the hangar.

Then we delivered a M7 on floats. He had the fire department wet down the grass on a median. He said "If I can get it to move I can get it to fly." I was seriously puckered flying a float plane off grass.