Michelle really liked the paint job on the Sportsman 2+2. I thought it looked
a little too girlish:
This was a totally cool race boat and truck to tow it with. Note that
the back shell of the truck raises up to reveal flat screen TV's and a large
speaker stereo system. The truck was fully equipped with strobe
lights:
After it landed, everyone got a nice close-up look at the A380 and the lines
to tour the giant airplane inside were non-stop for the entire week:
It just doesn't get much better than this. Sitting in the shade, under
the wing of an airplane that you built yourself, and flew to Oshkosh, watching
an awesome airshow:
This was a guy who put his wife out on the wing and flew an entire aerobatics
routine with her standing on top. Now that's love ;>):
He finally let her get back into the cockpit before landing. Here she is
crawling back inside "don't fall honey, its a long way down":
Here is the new control tower at Oshkosh:
The annual Bearhawk Barbecue happened on Tuesday night. Great grilled
food, great Bearhawk conversations and new friendships made:
We camped in Camp Scholler. This was the main store in Camp Scholler that
we used a lot and got our morning coffee each day. The "Red Barn" store had
a sign that says, "If we don't have it, you don't need it". We found
that to be true. They had everything that we forgot to bring with us
(towels, lotion, batteries, Scotchguard for the tent, misc. camping supplies
as well as all kinds of groceries):
Just down the street from the Red Barn store is the newly improved showers with real flushing toilets! The showers are quite interesting as they are simply a single hose with a kitchen sink sprayer attached. The water is warm but you have to hold the button on the sprayer and kind of rinse yourself off, like you would pots and pans. I heard one guy talking about bringing some safety wire to twist around the sprayer button to make it spray all the time and then to wire the sprayer up to the copper tubing on the wall for a real shower-like feel. Leave it up to a homebuilt airplane guy to come up with something like that :>)
Around the back of the Red Barn Store was the little Camper Cafe where
we ate dinner almost every night:
Since our camp site had no electricity, we had to find a place to charge
up our cellphones each day. We found a plug-in on the wall around the
side of the Red Barn store and charged our phones each morning as we had
our morning coffee and planned our activities for the day. Here is
Michelle charging up our phones: