Karen and I took a little side trip North when passing through Wisconson, to investigate the EAA Air Venture Museum in Oshkosh, WI. It has been a dream of my Dad to go there someday and we thought it would be great to lay some groundwork for a possible trip to the annual fly-in next year.
Imagine a town of about 60,000 exploding into a population of over 500,000 for a week. A sleepy airport that gets suddenly inundated with 10,000 airplanes along with thousands of RV's and tents. I have no idea how many port-a-potties it would take to serve the needs of so many. It is one of the many things on my extensive "bucket list"!
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| Replica of SpaceShipOne, the 1st privately built and flown space ship. It was the brainchild of Burt Rutan and flew into suborbital space on Sept. 19, 2004 by Mike Melvill |
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| North American F86 Sabre in foreground and WWII North American B25 "Mitchell" |
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| Replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer (lower) and I think the upper is a replica of the Wright Glider |
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| "Miss Champion", a Pitcairn PCA 2 Autogiro |
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| Replica of Fokker Dr. 1 Triplane, the aircraft made famous by Baron Manfred von Richthofen |
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| Grumman J2F Duck, built in 1944 |
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| Replica of "Fat Boy," the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan This mockup was used to assemble wire harnesses for the working bombs |
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| A very real looking WAC standing next to a WWII Army staff car |
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| Karen and pilot getting ready for a trip around Oshkosh in a 1927 Swallow. |
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| 1930's vintage air traffic control tower microphone used in the Cleveland, OH tower. |
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| I'm getting a ride around the "patch" in a 1929 Travel Air |
I took some video of the airplane rides and hope to have them posted on youtube shortly. Below is a link to the EAA AirVenture Museum. You can see these and many more aircraft and displays through the museum's website links.
Let us know if you plan on attending the event next year...we might see you there!
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