Oshkosh arrivals

Morgans wrote:
"Roger" wrote

I got to see "Old Crow" do a landing on one wheel with a 90 degree
cross wind and then try to imitate a "Frisbee" when the right wing hit
the dirt. She was about to touch down when I remembered both cameras
were in the home builder's center.

I remember one year ('99, I think), it was real gusty, wind out of about
270, and Aluminum Overcast was doing an overhead approach to landing on 18.
He got so low, I thought for sure he was going to crash, from hitting the
wing on the ground.

I heard later that he didn't hit the ground, but he was so close, he hit the
wingtip on a landing light and bent up the wing tip. OOps!!! At least he
didn't pile it up!
--
Jim in NC

One year, one of the other volunteers and I were sitting next to the
"MOO-COW" (the trailer the controllers run departures from on the
runway) when Aluminum Overcast was on short final for 27 at OSH.

I turned to my friend and asked if he had ever seen the beginning of
"12 O'Clock High" where the B-17 lands belly up, and if that was war
footage or not?

Alum. Overcast then touches down, loses it, almost runs over the
controller on the far side (who was filming the whole thing, until it
came right at him, then it was sky-ground-sky-ground-sky as he sprinted
away), then almost hit a mixmaster whose crew bailed out with engines
running, and came damn close to smashing into the VOR!

I shut up and didn't ask anymore stupid questions...

True story.
Did anyone else see the Lancasters' colossal bounce when it touched
down on 27?

Made me feel better about my own flying!

Ryan Wubben
Co-Chairman, EAA Flight Line Operations