Oshkosh 2003 Redux

"Montblack" wrote in message
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("Michael Pilla" wrote)
snip
As an aside, there's nothing like trying to sleep in a tiny, orange
rip-stop
nylon tent when lightning is all around. You would swear that the tent
blew
away and the light part of the "show" is right above you. Eventually, I
got
used to it. :-)

One word: Dorms :-)

--
Montblack

Been there, done that. I like the immediacy of tent camping. Besides, you
can get up early and walk around the planes to take pictures - the dorm
folks are still having breakfast and/or waiting for the bus. :-)

Michael Pilla

"Montblack" wrote in message
.. .
("Michael Pilla" wrote)
snip
As an aside, there's nothing like trying to sleep in a tiny, orange
rip-stop
nylon tent when lightning is all around. You would swear that the tent
blew
away and the light part of the "show" is right above you. Eventually, I
got
used to it. :-)

One word: Dorms :-)

--
Montblack

Two words: hotel room.

My plane gained weight this year, and I only went by proxy (had someone buying an
engine monitor for me).

Margy Natalie wrote:

Jay Honeck wrote:



The only casualty thus far: Our waist-lines. We actually GAINED weight at
Oshkosh -- something that has certainly never happened before!

Gee, I always gain weight at OSH :-(

Margy

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Dave Butler wrote:
Jay Honeck wrote:

It's funny -- I've had several people who stayed in the dorms come to me,
offering their sincere and heartfelt condolences for our "terrible time"
spent camping at Oshkosh this year. (We lost our tent in the first
storm...)


Lost your tent??? Wow! As in "...where did our tent go?"???


As wet as the week was, I still wouldn't have traded places with you.
To be
able to wake up on the field each morning and see 11,000 airplanes parked
wingtip-to-wingtip, as far as the eye can see -- man, there's nothing
else
like it.

When it comes to Oshkosh, I'm drip-dry!


Me, too! I tried staying the dorms the last 2 years after getting
thoroughly soaked in my tent 3 years ago, but I missed waking up on the
field. There's nothing like it. I got soaked in my tent again this year,
but I'll be back for another soaking next year.

I kinda miss the guy that used to yodel on the PA system in the early
morning, though (what happened to that?), and the the guy that used to
fire up his AT6 the second the airport opened in the morning. I didn't
hear either of those this year.

Remove SHIRT to reply directly.

Dave


In The "old" days Ray Hegy used to fire up his little bird and buzz the
place.
Bill Higdon

The Yodeler and the radial engine sounds are traditions, going off at
7AM. I didn't hear it every morning though, and while the yodeler (Both
are recordings actually) usually starts after the radial, I did hear it
the other way once.

John

I don't think the yodeler is a recording and he also did a rather awful
rendition of Dixie one morning.

Margy

John Thompson wrote:

The Yodeler and the radial engine sounds are traditions, going off at
7AM. I didn't hear it every morning though, and while the yodeler (Both
are recordings actually) usually starts after the radial, I did hear it
the other way once.

John

Margy Natalie wrote:

You should have been camping in the show plane area. We heard him loud and clear.

Margy

I would like to know who the hell that idiot was, Thursday or Friday
night. who belted out songs, continually, as loud as he possibly
could, a cappella, till almost midnight. I came close to launching a
personal mission to find the inconsiderate ******* and silence him.
It sounded very much like the morning wake-up guy and it seemed to
emanate from the area bordering the southern end of the ultralight
runway where the show related RV's were parked. Then, that same night
around midnight, came the marauding teens on two John Deere
four-wheelers who road south past the ultralight field and continued
on for 1/2 mile or so before turning back north whooping and hollering
the whole way. When they got back to the ultralight area, they did
doughnuts in the road with the four-wheelers before heading back to
God knows where.

The next day, I happened upon a county sheriff sitting in his car near
the ultralight area and told him about the marauding teens. He was
surprised and asked if I knew where security was at the time. I told
him that I didn't see security come by on patrol until about 1/2 hour
after the incident. He promised, in no uncertain terms, that he would
see to it that such incidents were not repeated. They weren't.

David O -- Row 111 next to the road -- http://www.AirplaneZone.com

Nope, didn't watch the air show up close on Wednesday. Too busy heading in
and out of vendor displays and tagging along with my brother visiting all
those RVs...man there were a lot of them. So, I guess if you average out
her singing, she might come close to ending on time (?). She'd do the
anthem much more justice if she'd just sing it and end it normally. How
many breaths did she take extending the ending on the first day? I remember
at least a couple...

--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
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In a previous article, "Dave Stadt" said:
Two words: hotel room.

I understand that if you want a reservation in the Super 8 on the field
there, you basically need to have the previous reservation holder leave it
to you in your will.


--
Paul Tomblin , not speaking for anybody
If you're not part of the solution, be part of the problem!

I understand that if you want a reservation in the Super 8 on the field
there, you basically need to have the previous reservation holder leave it
to you in your will.

Actually, I was told that on January 1st, at 6 PM, they start taking
reservations for the fly-in. First come, first served.

Of course, paying $150 per night -- with a 7 night minimum stay (for a
"Super" 8 room, of all things!) -- is insane, if you ask me.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"