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| Iowa City, Iowa 52246 |
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2005 Oshkosh
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| Every July thousands of aviation enthusiasts gather in the Mecca of General Aviation, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for a week-long celebration of flight. For the 23rd consecutive year, we joined them! |  |
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| Oshkosh is always amazing, but 2005 was special, with appearances by "White Knight" and "SpaceShipOne", flown into Oshkosh -- and outer space -- by the world's first private astronauts. Also flying in were "GlobalFlyer", the first aircraft piloted solo around the world, and the immaculately restored P-38 Lightning, "Glacier Girl" -- an aircraft that had spent nearly 60 years under the Greenland ice cap, where it had crash-landed in the early days of World War II, before being recovered in the early 1990s. | ||
| On the Saturday before the big show, we hosted our 3rd annual "Pre-Oshkosh Fly-In Pool Party" at the inn, for all the pilots en route to Oshkosh. This was well-attended (the hotel was sold out, and we had quite a few "drop-ins"), and -- with temperatures hovering around 100 degrees -- the pool was VERY well-used! | ||
| We then flew up to Oshkosh in a gaggle of four aircraft, with some loose formation flying and air-to-air photography thrown in, just to get Mary warmed up for an intense arrival into the busiest airspace in the world. | ||
| Then, on Wednesday we hosted our 3rd Annual "Oshkosh Cookout" at our campsite in the North 40 camping area. With tremendous assistance from aviation newsgroup regulars Jim & Tami Burns, and Montblack, we were able to serve food and drink to 50 attendees from all over the world. | ||
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| Saturday Pool Party | ||
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| Steve Allison's OSH Pix | ||