I'll be there from wendesday to Saturday night.
BTW, the B-52 is there. Landed yesterday. Yeah, that's right a B-52. All 185 feet of it.
I'll be there from wendesday to Saturday night.
BTW, the B-52 is there. Landed yesterday. Yeah, that's right a B-52. All 185 feet of it.
I'm just a half hour away. I'm just an aviation tourist, so I usually only attend every 5 years or so, and my son is not quite old enough to get a kick out of it yet. If you go into Oshkosh for some food, Terry's Bar on Main street has all weird kind of meats for burgers.
How long you staying?
I've been wanting to go to Oshkosk from back when it was still Rockford. I hope to make it one day.
You need to. A day will only wet your appetite, and a week isn't enough. This is my 22 year in a row.
I went with my dad in 1974 or so, and stayed the whole week as part of the AMA R/C model aircraft show team. One of the best weeks of my childhood. That was what, 40 years ago? I've wanted to go back ever since.
I attended for one day each of the last two years. I have attended EAA every few years in the past the first being in Rockford. I did want to attend for multiple days this year but it just didn't work out and decided to pass. I know that the "Warbird" attendance this year will be much higher then normal due to the WW II dates of the 75 years since the Battle of Britian and 70 years since the end of WW II.
Looks like I'll be taking Pop one of these days, this week. He was a B52 mechanic in the 50s.
Appleseed wrote: How long you staying?
I live a half hour away!
In reply to RossD:
So...you're there already, right?
No, I thought about it. Life's busy with a 8 month old baby.
Babies love jet noise.
We're headed there now. 
Several of my co-workers are there- some in an official capacity (look for the big wood and PVC helicopter rotor-head demonstrator) and some just because they're pilots and love it. I'd love to go, but haven't ever been asked to for work yet.
I just got done talking to a B-52 crewdog. The H model, which is the newest, will be used until 2060. The last 52 was built in 1962. That's right, a 98 year old warplane.
In reply to Appleseed:
Mind
2060? That's a 45-year forecast from today. BUFFs are awesome and they've had a hellacious run, but I can't see them lasting another 45 years in active duty.
They've been essentially rebuilt twice already.
They removed the Gatling gun tail stinger in 1992. They replaced it with a wad of concrete. A high tech solution to weight and balence. LOLzers
I would be most curious about the wing spars. 90 year old wing spars? On a plane with some quite floppy wings!?
I mean, they droop so much the put wheels on the end of them!
They've already re-built the wings on the H twice, I think they'd know how to do it again (and again.)
Probably with updated materials and manufacturing methodology too- I'd imagine the originals were built-up sheet metal, they could easily have updated that to high-speed machined solid metal (assuming Al...) along the way.
So, they've rebuilt he wings, rebuilt the engines, changed all of the avionics....
...so, after 90 years, what is going to be 90 years old? The bolts holding the position lights in?
Maybe they need to change the name from Superfortress to Theseus.
The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their places, in so much that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same.
aircooled wrote: So, they've rebuilt he wings, rebuilt the engines, changed all of the avionics.... ...so, after 90 years, what is going to be 90 years old? The bolts holding the position lights in? Maybe they need to change the name from Superfortress to Theseus.The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their places, in so much that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same.
Much like an 'original' racecar that's being restored. It's only original for a specific time and place.
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