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| Preflighting the RV-7A, 07/23/12 | RV-7A panel. Yum!, 07/23/12 | Checkout the excellent paint job, 07/23/12 | Jack, minding the store, 07/23/12 | Steady, now, 07/23/12 | ||
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| Jer/, your turn, hold it steady, 07/23/12 | Fueling at Norfolk, NE, 07/23/12 | Tail art on Jack's RV-7A, N397V, 07/23/12 | Overhead clouds, but a smooth ride, 07/23/12 | Oshkosh, taxiing to parking, 07/23/12 | ||
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| Oshkosh, taxing by the warbirds, 07/23/12 | Ford Trimotor, taxiing for takeoff, 07/23/12 | We are our own parade, 07/23/12 | Taxiing by warbirds, 07/23/12 | Not us! Neighboring RV-7A had a prop strike on landing, 07/23/12 | ||
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| Wow, the two Delta Dykes, 07/23/12 | B-29, "Fifi" in flight, 07/23/12 | "Duggy, the Yellow DC-3, taking the flag jumpers aloft, 07/23/12 | Smoke on, 07/23/12 | Lots of smoke on, 07/23/12 | ||
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| Summer's here, Lat/Long of Green Lake, 07/23/12 | Summer's here, Green Lake is just beyond the house, 07/23/12 | Reilly's Pub, Dinner at Green Lake, under the Oshkosh Ripon approach, 07/23/12 | Jer/ driving a friend's golf cart at Oshkosh, 1, 07/24/12 | Jer/ driving a friend's golf cart at Oshkosh, 2, 07/24/12 | ||
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| Penance for not going where Jack wanted, 07/24/12 | Penance for not going where Jack wanted, 07/24/12 | Ranch Flying seminar, 07/24/12 | Directions to Ranch Flying Dinner tonight, 1, 07/24/12 | Directions to Ranch Flying Dinner tonight, 2, 07/24/12 | ||
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| AeroShell Square is now known as ConocoPhillips Plaza, 07/24/12 | Uniform of the day for KidVenture, 07/25/12 | Pioneer Airport, 1, 07/25/12 | Pioneer Airport, 2, 07/25/12 | Bell 47 helicopter, the next ride departing, 07/25/12 | ||
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| Bob Lynn on a helicopter ride, 07/25/12 | Jer/ and Bob on a helicopter ride, 07/25/12 | Helicopter instruments, 07/25/12 | SOS Brothers, party tent with Brats corn on the cob and Beer, 07/25/12 | Camp Scholler, looking N. The "Fly-in Theater" screen is the black rectangle center, left, 07/25/12 | ||
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| Oshkosh, over Camp Scholler, looking NE to Oshkosh Tower, 07/25/12 | Ultralight runway centerline, center left, looking SE from Camp Scholler, 07/25/12 | L to R: ConocoPhillips Plaza, Theatre in the Woods, Vintage Aircraft parking. Fly Market is bottom right. 07/25/12 | Oshkosh Tower to ConocoPhillips Plaza, 07/25/12 | N397V is parked in the "forgotten 40" at the top right, 07/25/12 | ||
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| N397V is the red airplane facing left, 07/25/12 | North 40 camping, looking N, 07/25/12 | Sacred Heart Cemetery, North 40, Cessnas-2-Oshkosh is at the far showerhouse, 07/25/12 | L to R: SOS Brothers, EAA Museum, Fergus Chapel, Compass Hill, EAA Lodge, Pioneer Airport Hangars. KidVenture is in the hangars. 07/25/12 | L to R: EAA Museum, Compass Hill, EAA Lodge, Pioneer Airport Hangars. KidVenture is in the hangars. 07/25/12 | ||
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| Pioneer Airport looking NW, 07/25/12 | Flying E above SOS Brothers. Yes, there is no door. 07/25/12 | EAA Museum front entrance, looking NE across Pioneer airport to North 40 camping. RWY 9-27 is beyond the trees, 07/25/12 | EAA Museum to Oshkosh Tower, 07/25/12 | Pioneer Airport to North 40 camping, 07/25/12 | ||
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| Pioneer Airport with visiting helicopters on the right, 07/25/12 | North 40 camping, RWY 9-27, 07/25/12 | Pioneer Airport, approach to KidVenture and the heliport, 07/25/12 | Looking S to the back side of the EAA Museum, visiting helicopters park here, 07/25/12 | Final approach, 1, helicopter in front departing, 07/25/12 | ||
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| Final approach, 2, 07/25/12 | Final approach, 3, 07/25/12 | Final approach, 4, 07/25/12 | Landed! Looking S to the Eagle Hangar and the EAA Museum, 07/25/12 | EAA Museum, Wright Flyer exhibit, 07/25/12 | ||
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| EAA Museum, Johnson Wax exhibit (yellow Sikorsky S-38 on the left), 07/25/12 | EAA Museum, "Racers", 07/25/12 | EAA Museum, Lindbergh to Paris exhibit, 07/25/12 | EAA Museum, H-14? Experimental v-tail sailplane, 07/25/12 | EAA Museum, Young Eagles display, "The World's Largest Logbook", 1, 07/25/12 | ||
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| EAA Museum, Young Eagles display, "The World's Largest Logbook", 2, 07/25/12 | EAA Museum, Jer/ Eberhard, 385 Young Eagles! 1, 07/25/12 | EAA Museum, Jer/ Eberhard, 385 Young Eagles! 2, 07/25/12 | Micah and Moriah are in the logbook, 07/25/12 | Micah and Moriah are in the logbook, 07/25/12 | ||
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| Voyager "Around the World, Un-refuelled", 07/25/12 | Voyager fuselage #2 (#1 is in the Smithsonian), 07/25/12 | Voyager cockpit (front), 07/25/12 | Voyager cockpit (aft), 07/25/12 | Young Eagles Dinner. We were seated next to, and got to shake hands with the Tuskegee Airmen, 07/25/12 | ||
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| Young Eagles Dinner. We shared our table with..., 07/25/12 | EAA Young Eagles 20th Anniversary, 1992-2012. Jer/ has flown Young Eagles each year for 20 years. | Goodyear blimp on the mooring pole looking NNE across Pioneer Airport and the North 40 camping area, 07/26/12 | On the Warbird flightline, 07/26/12 | Warbird parking area, 1, 07/26/12 | ||
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| Warbird parking area, 2, 07/26/12 | RV Air Force and Oshkosh Tower, 07/26/12 | Jack Buschmann won a ride on the EAA Ford Trimotor, but we had to be there at 8AM... We left Portage at 6AM and we were there on time for boarding! 07/26/12 | EAA Ford Trimotor with Jack on board, taxiing for takeoff, 07/26/12 | Jer/ and Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, EAA Young Eagles Chairman, 07/26/12 | ||
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| Jer/ and First Officer Jeff Skiles, EAA Young Eagles Co-Chairman, EAA Vice President, Chapters and Youth Education, 07/26/12 | Opposing traffic with the Ford Trimotor, 1, 07/26/12 | Opposing traffic with the Ford Trimotor, 2, 07/26/12 | Both Ford Trimotors, 1, 07/26/12 | Both Ford Trimotors, 2, 07/26/12 | ||
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| EAA Ford Trimotor, NC8407, 07/26/12 | EAA Ford Trimotor, Jack Buschmann returned safely to earth. Pilot was Sully Sullenberger, 07/26/12 | After the flight. Jack Buschmann is third from the left. Sully Sullenberger is 5th from the left, 07/26/12 | Really, he wasn't that scared! The flight went really well. :-) 07/26/12 | BD-4C, Performance Specifications, 07/26/12 | ||
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| Maverick. It drives, it flys, 07/26/12 | Maverick, the flying car that does! 07/26/12 | Pedal planes, 07/26/12 | Rod Machado, observing a moment of silence before beginning his talk, 07/26/12 | Rod Machado, explaining how airplanes fly, 07/26/12 | ||
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| "Activities Center", formerly "Womens Activities Center". Paul Poberenzy had it renamed when Patrice complained that it should be "Spouse's Activity Center", 07/26/12 | Jer/ with controllers at Fisk Intersection, 07/26/12 | Ground level... Fisk Intersection, 07/26/12 | N397V, preparing for departure, 07/27/12 | The boards kept us from sinking into the soggy ground, 07/27/12 | ||
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| Taxiing for departure, 1, 07/27/12 | Taxiing for departure, 2, 07/27/12 | Taxiing for departure, 3, 07/27/12 | Oshkosh Tower, 07/27/12 | Upscale visitor's pavilion at AirVenture Show Central, 1, 07/27/12 | ||
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| Upscale visitor's pavilion at AirVenture Show Central, 2, 07/27/12 | The spectators are gathering on the flightline for the airshow, 07/27/12 | Oshkosh "P" taxiway with fire truck, 07/27/12 | Five in a row, preparing for the airshow, 07/27/12 | Rimowa, the aluminum suitcase people, 07/27/12 | ||
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| South 40 parking, 1, 07/27/12 | South 40 parking, 2, 07/27/12 | 75 Piper Cubs (many yellow) made it to Oshkosh for their special year, 07/27/12 | South 40 parking, 3, "Red Barn" in the distance, 07/27/12 | South 40 parking, 4, "Red Barn" in the distance, 07/27/12 | ||
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| Taxiing to OSH RWY-36L for departure, 07/27/12 | Formation departure, 07/27/12 | The Ultralight "Red Barn" and South 40 camping, 07/27/12 | Oshkosh portable control tower, 07/27/12 | N397V, "lineup and wait" behind the Swift, 07/27/12 | ||
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| Departing Oshkosh, it was a hazy day, 07/27/12 | Turn right to fly south to follow the W shore of Lake Winnebago, 07/27/12 | Keeping low, below the clouds, headed for Juneau, 07/27/12 | Portage Airport (C47), WI, 1, 07/27/12 | Portage Airport (C47), WI, 2, 07/27/12 | ||
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| Fuel bay at Portage, WI, 07/27/12 | Crossing the Mississippi westbound, N of Prairie du Chen, WI, 07/27/12 | Ah, it was a great Oshkosh. Lets go again next year! 07/27/12 | Lunch at the Barnstormer Restaurant, Norfolk, NE, 07/27/12 | ||