Oshkosh 2003 Redux

In article QoWXa.72715$Ho3.10326@sccrnsc03, "Jay Honeck"
writes:


Conclusion:
Bring more money and spend more time!

A) It is not possible to bring enough money.
B) It is not possible to spend enough time.

: )
--
Jay Honeck


I must respectfully disagree to the (B). I just spent 7 days (Sunday thru
Sunday) and can tell you that I spent enough time. My feet and legs said that
I had spent enough time by Friday. I still haven't seen everything but there
is always next year and besides, you want to have something new to look forward
to.


Bob Reed
www.kisbuild.r-a-reed-assoc.com (KIS Builders Site)
KIS Cruiser in progress...Slow but steady progress....

"Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice,
pull down your pants and Slide on the Ice!"
(M.A.S.H. Sidney Freedman)

B) It is not possible to spend enough time.

I must respectfully disagree to the (B). I just spent 7 days (Sunday thru
Sunday) and can tell you that I spent enough time. My feet and legs said
that
I had spent enough time by Friday.

Well, if we're going to talk about physical limitations, I must admit that I
was toast by Saturday. By Sunday, I was still able to get around the
grounds, but only by ignoring everything my calf muscles, feet and lower
back were telling me. It was really tough hiking back to the bus for the
last time, mostly because Mary wanted to beat the weather and that meant
almost jogging through the warbirds area back to the bus stop. (We were
afraid we wouldn't get out ahead of the airshow...)

But that doesn't mean I wanted to leave. What I REALLY wanted to do was
just sit my butt in a chair for a day and watch airplanes -- but there was
just no way to do that while surrounded with so many goodies! Even after 21
Oshkosh Fly-Ins, I'm still just a big kid, I guess....

Occasionally you'll see some older gentlemen who always seem to be sitting
near their planes in the North 40 campground. During the first part of the
week, I look at these guys with pity. By the end of the week, I look at
them with envy.

I always wonder if their inactivity is by choice, or by force of
circumstance...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Just want to add my thanks to Jay for organizing the rec.aviation get-together,
and my apology for not making it. Maybe next year. Do it again, please, Jay?

My story in brief: arrived Tuesday afternoon before the airshow, amazed at the
number of planes there. It seemed more than any OSH I've been to before. I was
camped two down from the hole-in-the-fence by Friar Tuck's.

Missed Jim Weir's forum, but got to Richard Kaplan's, which was very well done.
Thanks, Richard.

Favorite show airplane: the Hughes Racer.

My tent leaked buckets. Memo-to-self: get new tent before next year.

Left Thursday around noon for my brother's in northern Michigan. Left there on
Friday afternoon, only to be stopped by tstorms in southern Michigan. Did an
unscheduled remain-overnight in Lansing.

What a great time! Now trying to catch up on work :-(

DGB

Jay Honeck wrote:
Conclusion:
Bring more money and spend more time!


A) It is not possible to bring enough money.
B) It is not possible to spend enough time.

: )
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--
Dave Butler, software engineer 919-392-4367
We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

Jay & everone else at the North Forty Party.
This was my 34th time at the EAA fly-in. But I live 100 miles south of OSH.
Jay, you should have given the extra beer to the Charcoal Pit Bar.
They would have stored it for you until next year!!!!!!!!!

Monday 11:30 am, the last day, the ceiling was at about 300 agl. We were on
the Camera tower plateform south of the Warbird area, east of Lancair displays.
Two F 16 took off to the North and rotated, banked to the West, 1 over our
heads 150 ft and 200 ft. South of me.
The other 100 ft north of the camera tower. Their after burners were at full
thrust with a very long flame. Many shouted "COVER YOUR EARS". Well, my left
ear didn't ring, but throbbed for, 4 hours.
People in the buildings, said they just shook. WHAT A SIGHT, to have a buss job
like that.

Now take your calulator and add up all the cars, campers, airplanes, commerical
displays, wallets and purses and let us know what is the total worth of Oshkosh
2003 airport in the 7 days????????????????

Larry Fitzgerald

Roughly $10 to $12M over the total life of the show annually that remains within
the Oshkosh area.

Jim




(Fitzair4)
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-Now take your calulator and add up all the cars, campers, airplanes,
commerical
-displays, wallets and purses and let us know what is the total worth of
Oshkosh
-2003 airport in the 7 days????????????????
-
-Larry Fitzgerald
-

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

Roughly $10 to $12M over the total life of the show annually that remains
within
the Oshkosh area.

Wow.

And while we were in OSH the Appleton Post-Crescent ran a letter to the
editor decrying the fact that Wittman Field has a hugely expensive
independent airport authority. The writer was claiming that this authority
should be eliminated as a cost-cutting measure, and combined with the nearby
Outagamie County airport authority, because there simply wasn't enough
traffic into OSH to warrant the expense.

Reading this while sitting in LaSure's, I literally couldn't believe my
eyes... Maybe 51 weeks per year the guy has a point, but those other 7 days
more than make up for whatever that board may cost.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"