I shot the following video moments after I took cover from the storm on Thursday afternoon at AirVenture. I was standing under the covered patio on the east side of the Homebuilders Headquarters building trying to keep from blowing away. The two closest aircraft you...
I flew back home to Indy yesterday from Oshkosh and my Rans spent her first night hangared in a week. She rode out one hell of a storm there but my Claw tiedowns kept her planted firmly. Before departing I got a weather briefing at the...
It was such an incredible week at AirVenture it's hard to say goodbye but guess it can't go on forever. Wx looks good and this lovely lady gave me my departure briefing. It's going to be a 36 left departure which means a turn to...
If you're wondering what this solid looking homebuilt is, it's a Murphy Moose with a 400 h.p. 9 cylinder radial. It has a max. gross weight of 3500 pounds and a useful load of around 1350 and carries 100 gallons of fuel. I've seen a couple...
A special invitation to all lady taildragger pilots from Sharon & Bill Tinkler...
Thursday was LadiesLoveTaildraggers Day in “Vintage†at AirVenture and what a cool thing it was! During AirVenture, Ray Johnson hosts the daily program "Vintage In Review" in the Vintage Red Barn area and invited us to select 3 women taildragger pilots to display and speak about...
Some serious weather passed through Oshkosh this afternoon, scared more than a few of us and caused some limited damage. I was standing under the wing of my S7 talking to some friends and we could see the sky getting very dark, very fast. You...
It's LadiesLoveTaildraggers day today in Vintage at Oshkosh! I'm heading there next to meet Meredith Tcherniavsky and her Cub, Lisa Haag and her Stearman and Deb Ings and her Pacer. Presentation at 11:00. Should be fun!!...
Holy cow, I love Wisconsin. I found out today this really is COW country when I hopped a ride from Oshkosh for the 1 hour car drive to New Holstein for the Supercub fly-in. [caption id="attachment_20619" align="aligncenter" width="425"] They're Everywhere![/caption] The drive really was beautiful with cow...
[caption id="attachment_20601" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Shona Hirota[/caption] I just keep bumping into more and more lady taildragger pilots! For the guy that told me several years ago "Honey, lady taildragger pilots don't exist", boy do I have news for you!! This is Shona Hirota with her 1995...
