EAA Museum

Errol Groff wrote:

A photo essay of my visit to the Experimental Aircraft Association
AirVenture Museum has been posted at


http://newenglandmodelengineeringsoc...008_2003/1.htm

Errol Groff


Hey Errol! I see you've sort of adopted my "Oshkosh Scrapbook" format
as per our emails last year.

Here are some corrections and comments.

1) The background color on pages 1 and 3 defaults to my browser's
default background color while the rest of the pages have a white
background.

2) Your left arrows are disabled and your right arrow links are
broken. Perhaps the easiest fix is to simply remove the arrows from
your presentation.

3) The biplane on page 3 is an exact flying replica of the Laird Super
Solution in which Jimmy Doolittle won the 1931 Bendix Trophy race and
set a new cross country record. The replica was completed in December
of 2000 after more than 10,000 man-hours of work over a 2 1/2 year
period.

4) The jet on page 5 is the Williams V-Jet II. Here is a link to more
info,
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/AST/GAP/wi0697.htm
and here is some inside poop -- Rutan didn't like the V tail and
thought a single vertical stab would be better but the plane was a
marketing tool for Williams engines and had to look snazzy so Williams
insisted on a V tail.

5) Page 12. The name of the character in the James Bond flick is
"Pussy Galore". The name of the *plane* is "Pushy Galore".

6) Page 13. "Loving's Love" was designed and built between 1947 and
1951 as a pylon racer by Neal Loving, a black man. Neal lost both of
his legs in an airplane crash in 1944 but used prostheses. After
completing his "Love" in 1951, Neal began racing it in the National
Air Races. Neal would later fly the plane from Detroit to Jamaica and
back. The plane in the museum is Loving's original. A few other
Loving's Loves have been built but only one remains flying today.

Cheers,

David O -- http://www.AirplaneZone.com -- Still working on this year's
Oshkosh Scrapbook