and btw: For me personally, Chuck Aaron with the Red Bull helicopter is still the craziest guy out there.....
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: Oddball on August 30, 2010, 06:23:23 PM
Good to see they eventually got the SHAR (BAe Sea Harrier FRS2) up and flying again. Last time I heard they where having trouble with it undercart.
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: 4X-NTY on August 30, 2010, 10:29:14 PM
Damn... I wish I could be there... I heard that there was in a Dakota bought from Israel by a couple, It was standing there with a in front of it that said in hebrew "The only replacement for a Dakota is another Dakota", The Israeli pilots that went there helped the couple to translate some of the signs and texts in the cockpit. When I'm done with the school and the army,that's the first place I'm gonna visit, too bad it's atleast 4 years from now...
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: cotejy on September 01, 2010, 02:47:23 PM
Thanks for sharing this video Mike. I don't know anyone in the world of aviation so chicken wings is my only link to aviation (except when I'm actually flying).
So I heard on CW the world Oshkosh a few times but didn't realized what it was until I saw the words "7 days, 500 000 attendees, 10 000 airplane" in the video. These are numbers my brain can't imagine. I went to Oshkosh website and WOW!!!! That sort of thing exist in this world and I didn't know. ::banghead:: Plus it's only 19 hours drive from home!
I have one year to convince my wife that Wisconsin is THE destination for our next vacation. It shouldn't be difficult. I just have to tell her she will heard Merlin engine sounds and she will blame me for not going there before.
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: Mike on September 01, 2010, 04:23:16 PM
yeah, it's hard to imagine how many people and aircraft are there. Have to make it over there one of these days. It's a little more than 19 hours for me :(
I wonder if Turbomallard went this year.....
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: Oddball on September 01, 2010, 06:21:14 PM
Trying to convince some one to join and share his photos with us...................failing that I will just "liberate" a few ::whistle::
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: gibbo_335 on September 01, 2010, 10:04:17 PM
If it is who I think it is.... don't "liberate" any of his photos .... he'll be ::complaining: ;D
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: Oddball on September 02, 2010, 12:26:11 AM
Ok I'll speak very nicely to him.
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: Turbomallard on September 15, 2010, 12:12:49 PM
Eh, what? Did I hear my name mentioned? Yep, I wuz there... 8 days. Pretty busy-- it felt more like 14 days! It was an absolutely an amazing week. And you'd be disappointed if I didn't share, so.... http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=65403&id=1033457749&l=513e5f7a19
Didn't get any pictures of the Roush "incident"... I was too busy moving away from where the airplane ended up to get the camera out. Scary.
TM
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: Mike on September 15, 2010, 04:20:37 PM
WOW! ::unbelieveable::
Look at all those pictures! Thanks for sharing!
You really take this aviation enthusiast thing to the next level, Turbo! ;D ;)
So, you saw the whole Roush incident?
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: Oddball on September 15, 2010, 05:59:03 PM
What was the Roush incident?
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: 4X-NTY on September 15, 2010, 06:38:27 PM
http://www.buzzreactor.com/articles/jack-roush-in-plane-crash Crashed a plane, I heard that he crashed a plane last year too.
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: Turbomallard on September 16, 2010, 03:32:49 AM
Re Roush... I was walking away from the Vintage camping area with my girlfriend (her first time to Airventure)... lots of planes in the pattern as usual. Noticed the Beech jet and thought it odd that they had it in the pattern for 18... normally they put all the jets on 9/27. Anyway, it overshot base to final; I expected a go-around. Then it veered into what appeared to be a 50+ degree bank to try and correct... Couldn't believe my eyes-- that's a typical 10-hour student pilot mistake and I thought sure a jet pilot (didn't know who was in it) would never do that. ::loony::
Expected a go around. It didn't happen. Nor did the power come up. And it was sinking and slow. ::eek:: In my head I projected the landing/impact point... and it was about 300 feet from where we were standing. Grabbed girlfiend's hand and said "Let's GO!" We trotted off and she said "What's the matter?" I said "This is not going to end well." I didn't see the impact, as I was too busy trying to get further away-- the airplane was very close to the ground with no power and one wing dipped about 45 degrees and I was damned certain it was going to explode on impact and I was concerned that flaming debris and/or jet fuel could find us at our distance.
Heard the BANG of the impact, but no explosion. Stopped and turned around just in time to see the thing skidding along the ground and spin around 180 degrees (he had gotten the wings fairly level before hitting the ground). Back of fuselage was cracked, and the engines were now running at full power. I thought sure that fuel was leaking and next we'd have a fire from that. Luckily that didn't happen. Emergency crews were on the scene fairly fast. We kept moving away-- against the crowd of people trying to get closer. I thought it much more practical to get away from the area for any emergency vehicles, etc. that may need to get there, plus I thought it in bad taste to gawk, frankly.
Learned it was Roush the next day. I'm not going to add to all the speculation out there about the cause, I just tell people what I saw. Investigators, etc. will come up with the why it happened.
In short, we were lucky that this accident was not a LOT worse. If it had happened a day or so earlier he would have hit parked aircraft that were there waiting for the grounds to dry out so they could be parked elsewhere. If you do a search for images on Google, you'll see some that show the high bank angle just before impact.
TM
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: Turbomallard on September 16, 2010, 03:47:48 AM
Here's some cool but crummy video of the Saturday warbird show I shot this year with my little Sony camera in video mode. If I can get the code to embed here...
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: Mike on September 17, 2010, 09:14:40 PM
the link should be:
<object width="30feet ish" height="600' on final" > too much bank <param name="overshot base to final" value="way off" /><param name="needs go-around" value="always" /><param name="dumbass" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/1498530456572" /><embed src="look at me! I am flying!" type="application/ cancel go-around/x-shockwave-CRASH" allowscriptaccess="must make it happen at all cost" allowfullscreen="break aircraft in half" width="180 at runway" height="scratch asphalt"></embed aircraft into runway></object> ::rofl:: ::rofl::
btw: I also think it's more practical to run AWAY from an aircraft crash. Post crash fires and so forth . . . . I can't believe people always run TOWARDS the disaster. I saw the same at the Gas explosion in California. Lemmings come to mind.....
Great story though!
Thanks for sharing! ::wave:: |:)\
Title: Re: Oshkosh 2010!
Post by: TheSoccerMom on September 17, 2010, 11:56:03 PM
Bwaaa haaaa!!!!
That's hilarious!!! Mike's "link" is obviously way, way more accurate... ::rofl::
Ohh, wait, where's the piece that says "More money than brains"............ ::loony::
