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Oshkosh 1999 Image Gallery:
Day Four – Saturday, July 31
Saturday, July 31st, 1999 Yesterday’s Gallery Today’s Airshow Prop design: Salvador Dali The Big Apple comes to Oshkosh. A matter of perspective. Twins. I don’t care what the sign says…I’m gonna touch it! For Sale? Once was enough. HOT PAINT! No Struttin’. 57 Jagged Paint You want fries with that? Unclear on the concept. When […]
Oshkosh 1999 Newswire:
Day Three – Friday, July 30
Warbirds Collide — Aftermath NTSB Probe Of Warbird Crash To Focus On Communications… The NTSB said it will look closely at aircraft communication procedures inuse at the time of the formation takeoff that ended with the spectacular crashof an F-4U Corsair during the Thursday airshow at AirVenture ’99. Laird”Lad” Doctor, of Dallas, Texas, the Corsair’s […]
The Light Twin Is Dead, Long Live the Light Twin
At a press conference a few years ago, Cessna had a one-word answer to aquestion about when it might resume production of its popular C-340 light twin:”Never.” The light twins on the market have always been known asdemanding to fly, particularly when an engine fails. Piston twins, most of themunderpowered, tend to have engine-out performance […]
What a Difference Some Decades Make: Ultralight Turf Turns 20
First Pioneers Tapped For Ultralight Hall of Fame Twenty-four EAA conventions back, a flyer of slight stature stepped off theOshkosh grass and into the air – before his Easy Riser tumbled to the groundbefore tens of thousands of eyes. But three years later, John Moody’s minormishap in his McCullough 101 chain-saw-engine-powered flyer was hardlyremembered compared […]
