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Oshkosh 1998 Image Gallery:
Day One – Tuesday, July 28
Day One (Tuesday) Day Two (Wednesday) Day Three (Thursday) Day Four (Friday) Day Five (Saturday) Day Six (Sunday) Day Seven (Monday) Day One – July 28, 1998 Click on the image for a larger High Resolution Image. EAA requires all planes to be tied down. Paul & Carolyn Applegate and family enjoy the shade of […]
Oshkosh 1998 Coverage:
AVweb’s Preliminary Report
Remember Oshkosh Oshkosh is nigh upon us and AVweb columnist MichaelMaya Charles ruminates about his annual pilgrimage to that littletown in Wisconsin where it’s always 1956. His vivid descriptionsof his memorable, and not so memorable experiences will leaveyou with a sore gut and perhaps a bit damp in the corner of youreyes. MMC also offers […]
Inaugural EAA AirVenture Cup Race
Monday, July 27th, two days before the EAA AirVentureOshkosh 1998 convention even opened, the sound of airplanes atfull fury filled the air at Oshkosh Wittman field. Ten very special,very speedy airplanes wrestled for the finish line on the southend of runway 18-36, ending a 822 nautical mile cross countryrace. Though there have been air races […]
Unlimiteds Thunder at Reno ’97
Howard Pardue’s Bearcat Richardson’s YAK before the accident… …and after. (Hint: something’s missing!) Howard Pardue’s Sea Fury taxiing in after the accident. Interesting tail art on the YAK! The 34th Annual Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada opened on September 8, 1997 witha record number of entries in the unlimited racing class. All in all, […]
Preparing for a Long Cross-Country
Theannual trek to Sun ‘n Fun was, as usual, a great deal of fun. Flying myPiper Arrow down and back is always the best part of the entire week, andthis year was no exception. The weather cooperated for the most part, andthe bird ran flawlessly. When my wife and I departed Howell, Michigan, there was […]
Unlimited Air Racing at Reno ’96
The 33rd annual Reno National Championship Air Races opened on September9, 1996 and with it brought both excitement and disappointment. In recentyears the “fastest motor sport in the world” has been slightly waning interms of participation and competition. However, the 1996 campaign showedgreat encouragement for there were a number of new unlimited racers on theramp […]
Oshkosh ’93 Adventure
We landed in Oshkosh in mid-afternoon five days before the official opening of the convention in what appeared to be a sleepy, under-utilized mid-western airport. The rains that had plagued the Midwest all spring and summer affected central Wisconsin as well. The grass taxiways used during the convention were soft and several of the traditional […]
