Oshkosh 2006 Pix, at last!

well....The back of my head is in one of your pictures! Monday the 24th (B1
is fast even parked)

Ps...boo I miss the convention as well....

Dave Zera
Co-Chair
Safety / Flight Line
AirVenture 2007

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
Jay... enjoyed the pictures.. your kids are two of the luckiest kids in
the
world..

I'd appreciate it if you could have a talk with them... ;-)

Glad to see my old buddies showed up with my plane... the B-1 of course..
glad you liked it.

The B-1 is awesome! I've never quite figured out why the B-52 still
seems to grab most of the glory whenever there's a fight, cuz the B-1
is just soo much more cool.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I didn't think it was worth starting a new thread for this question...

I was wondering if the EAA Ornithopter was running at Oshkosh? Did it
operate when I just wasn't around, or did it not come out? I think the
event needs more of those silly things like that and Jerry's One Man
Band. It puts something back on the human scale side of the show
against all the military and corporate exhibits.

Nope!

The Hay's brothers ( the owners of the Ornithopter ) closed their machine
shop and retired and it was to costly to bring any more. (EAA would not cut
them a break in pricing). I will miss them as well......!!

Dave Zera
Co-Chair
Safety / Flight Line
AirVenture 2007
"Paul Dow (Remove Caps in mail address)" wrote in
message news:qwOFg.4819$SZ3.403@dukeread04...
I didn't think it was worth starting a new thread for this question...

I was wondering if the EAA Ornithopter was running at Oshkosh? Did it
operate when I just wasn't around, or did it not come out? I think the
event needs more of those silly things like that and Jerry's One Man Band.
It puts something back on the human scale side of the show against all the
military and corporate exhibits.

The Hay's brothers ( the owners of the Ornithopter ) closed their machine
shop and retired and it was to costly to bring any more. (EAA would not cut
them a break in pricing). I will miss them as well......!!

What a shame. My kids have literally grown up with that silly
ornithopter flapping around OSH every July, and both of them (ages 12
and 15) asked "Where's that goofy thing?" at various times during the
week.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Ron Wanttaja wrote:
On 14 Aug 2006 04:55:17 -0700, "Jay Honeck" wrote:

The B-1 is awesome! I've never quite figured out why the B-52 still
seems to grab most of the glory whenever there's a fight, cuz the B-1
is just soo much more cool.

It's just old age and treachery overcoming youth and skill. :-)

The B-52 is the only front-line combat aircraft in the world where you can ask
your grandfather for advice on how to fly it.

The B-52s were built right after WWII, the aluminum they're built of came from
thousands of scrapped B-17s, B-24s, and P-51. It literally has combat in its
blood.

Not to pick a nit, but the USAF is only flying B-52H which were made
in the early 1960s.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired