Going to Oshkosh????????

[WebMaster]

Note from Herb

It's show time today
It has been really cool watching all the arrivals. Comanches yesterday. Spent a long time at the museum yesterday. After like 20 or more years of attending OSH I never took in the museum. It was awesome. Camping is an experience that I really glad I did. The weather has been perfect and looks to be forcast as good. Spent some time with Steve G. and Sandy yesterday. They are parked 10 rows ahead (north) of us. The arrived about 2 hours ahead of us Saturday. We saw a "wanna be" 02 land yesterday and they have the real thing on display over by the exhibits. Not sure what the story is but we will report back. Headed for warbirds this morning, wish you were all here. If you are planning to come in this week please e mail or call me.
616 401 3637


Herb R Harney [hharney@sbcglobal.net]

Herb R Harney

[stackj]

If you are referring to the O2 near the LSAs, a university is using it to test airfoils. They have mounted an airfoil vertically on the left hardpoint. They have mounted instrumentation in the old radio racks for the testing.

They also visited Don Neiser on the way out.

Herb - I will try to call you tomorrow

[wfreestone]

Herb.

As had previously informed you, I am flying in for the day on Thursday 30 JUL 2009, probably arriving at OSH around 10:30AM or so (since IFR reservation landing at FLD and shuttle busing in from there).
Will call you on your cell phone, since want to stop by and see your aircraft.

William Freestone
314-308-0371.

[hharney]

Great Day on Wednesday. Absolutely perfect weather. 70 degrees with a nice breeze and puffy clouds in the sky. Met Jim and Jenny Stack today at the Aviat Husky booth. We had a great time talking 337 and finally meeting. They will fly back on Friday.

The DC 3 from Riverview Airport 08C flew in this morning. They had about 10 guys with them and some rookies to Osh Airventure. What a great way to come, in a DC 3. Plenty of camping room under the wings. They parked in the south 40 near a couple Albatross'.

Good airshow on Wednesday. We sat with Steve and Sandy Gufstason (sp) and watch the show again. The jet powered glider flew and lots of other stuff. There was a Beech Bonanza doing a show too. Quite amazing actually.

We attended the Vintage Aircraft Association picnic and met a good bunch of people. After dinner we came back to the VAA area and watched Andrew fly the Pitcarin Autogyro. Wow now that was a treat. If you are an EAA member there is an article in the last issue. Talk about a restoration project.

It has been really neat to talk to all the people interested in Skymasters and some of them have never been on the web site or message board. I have invited them all to join and participate. Several are owners of Skymasters.

[SteveG]

A few downsized images of show highlights from the first three days.

[hharney]

Airventure 2009 is closing down quickly. Saturday was a morning wash with rain showers and then behind the front was gusting winds to 25. Still the show went on and it was great. One of the first times that I left the camera behind and just watched the show. Sean Tucker and the Calaberators are amazing. It's amazing enough to just watch Sean or Michael Goulian by them selves but when 4 aerobatic pros fly you can only imagine the show. The amazing part is that they fly together using 3 different types of aircraft. Sean's Oricle Challenger, 2 Extra 300's and an Edge 540. That takes some talent and lot's of practice.

Mark and I decided to bail out Friday night instead of Saturday morning as planned so just before the airshow finished on Friday we packed up camp and were ready to depart. I had a prop blade sign that was given to me when I registered 2JF for judging. All week I had been checking the sign to see if it had been initialed from the judges indicating that the airplane had been judged. Finally Friday morning they judged the plane and I had noticed the initials from the judges. Well, everything was packed and I went to remove the blade sign and I found a letter tucked inside the blade sign. The letter said that the airplane was an award winner and I was invited to attend the ceremony and reception on Saturday at 6 PM. We had just packed up everything, Mark needed to be home and I was not sure what I had won. We hurried to the Vintage Association HQ because I had filed an IFR FP and did not want to miss the departure before the airport closed. At the Vintage HQ the guy saw the letter and said that I didn't want to miss the ceremony. He wouldn't tell me what I had won but just that I would want to be there. Well long story short, I flew home Friday night and grabbed Tammy and we came back today for the ceremony. We were able to get a room at the Hilton and just parked right at the hotel. Well all the hard work that everyone put into 2JF paid off. Yes folks we got one nice prize:

Best Contemporary Custom Multi Engine Aircraft for Oshkosh 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a great surprise. I am so glad I came back because the Vintage Aircraft Association was just great. Everyone was so excited that they were giving an award to a Skymaster. There was some pretty stiff competition. Results will be coming soon in Sport Aviation magazine.

Great pictures Steve, here are a couple more from my camera eye. Of course Tammy took the one of the Lindberg. :-)

[WebMaster]

I am so happy for you. This is a great, wonderful, award. Tammy takes a great picture, too.

Congratulatons, great job.

[jordi]

Congratulations Herb.

Well done from Barcelona!

Jordi

[Rafful]

Congratulations Herb.

You take the prize, and we are all winners and feel proud.