Month: August 2014

Oshkosh photos are up.

Saturday, August 2 Berck’s phone rang at 2:50 a.m.  He answered it but no one was there.  Then my phone immediately started ringing.  Since my number is one after his, it seemed like something was calling every number. I don’t know if it was the motion sickness patch or because it was so early, but it was hard to get up.  We had to get up early because the taxi was arriving at 6:45.  The taxi ride was less than $9!  It was $10 to park at the EAA event, $1 to ride the city bus, and $1.50 to ride…

Friday, August 1 My tennis shoes were still wet from the downpour the day before, so I tied them to my back pack and wore my Chacos.  Tracey dropped Berck and me off at the museum, and we fully explored that before catching a bus back to the event area.  The show was the best yet, which the Jelly Belly plane interrupting an aerobatic routine with his aileron falling off.  The Thunderbirds were the last to perform. I’d never seen them perform except at the USAFA stadium at graduation.  It rained on and off, so we were glad to have…

Thursday, August 1 Berck and I slept in and took the bus by ourselves in time to try to catch the other scheduled RV composite building class, but it was canceled too.  Instead we went to the What’s New at Van’s class, where Van himself spoke.  They didn’t talk very much about the RV-10, but it was nice to hear them talk about how they try to design planes for real people in the real world. We decided to find a good spot to watch the air show early and found one right on the spectator line.  Unfortunately, a thunderstorm…