Storm just hit us here... just like you said... green sky... lightning,
wind, no hail thank god, black as night. Looks like rain for another couple
hours.
Jim

"Montblack" wrote in message
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How's the flying weather for your pool party looking? Noon on Saturday.
All
directions?


Reason I ask is, I was just over at Golden Wings Museum this morning to
pick
up any extra cargo they need hauled over to OSH. They have things set out
on
folding tables for each plane.

The gang had just gone up for a quickie pilot check-out flight and a photo
shoot of the Bushmaster Tri-Motor, ten minutes before I got there.
Photographer was in the 1930 Stearman YPT-9 (Cloudboy).

We got hit by a fast moving storm five minutes after I got to the museum -
WOW. Straight line winds, heavy rain, lightning, more wind, then a short
downpour, hey ...where did that green sky come from? You get the picture.
Very fast moving line. It's still making an effort two hours later - still
raining, but dying down. No hail, but I bet some neighborhoods got nailed.

Anyway, no planes returned to ANE (Anoka County-Blaine - MN) from the
photo
shoot. Hope they made a run for it!!! Maybe into Central Wisconsin.

Speaking of setting Tri-Motors down in farmer's fields(???) ala the
National
Air Tour in 2003...

...one out of five Tri-Motors looks like a no show at OSH this year. 1936
Stinson Model A - low wing.
http://www.goldenwingsmuseum.com/Aircraft%20Pages/Tri-Motor%20-%20A.htm

Gear collapsed on the taxiway earlier this month. Jackscrew snapped?? They
really wanted that plane at OSH this year - recovered the plane,
repainted,
engines - everything ...now this. Drat! Double drat!! Tri-Drat!!!


Hope your Pre-Oshkosh Pool Party is going well. Hope folks can get to it -
including those two intrepid soles flying their planes in from California.

Hopefully I'll bump into you folks on Sunday in the N40.


Montblack