Wednesday, August 25, 2010

people I met at Oshkosh

Still working on gathering information gleamed from Airventure 2010… met many great folks:
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Airventure 2010 was a tribute to veterans

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Some struggled all week to gather enough airspeed to lift off…

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Observations on the 2010 DC-3 gathering

OK…The Staff and I have returned from the big DC-3 “doings” in IL and WI…  Short Version of the story is it never quite “pulled its self together”… That is not to say no DC-3s… Those that were there were magnificent… But the dream of 50 plus DC-3s flying together at one time just never made it to fruition… Many factors … No blame …  and We will have many stories and pictures of those wonderful Birds and folks that gave it their best shot… and were there in all their finery… “Bear”