Anecdotes eh?
(1) I'm probably not the first but I managed to crash the Wright Flyer
inverted.
(2) The SOS Brothers will never again doubt we can fill a tent (they thought I was full of....well, you know.) No, we didn't pay for it....they sold a lot of beer. Next year we ask for our own waitress crew.
(3) Give Mike Starkey a drink and he drives real slow
(4) The Vans banquet needs more picnic tables or narrower RV'ers. Apparently somebody told the caterer you could fit two people side-by-side in only 43 inches.
(5) Anybody else have a raccoon tan? You know, the facial look you get when you wear sunglasses and look at the sky a lot more than you do at home?
(6) Had an alternate air door warning light go on just short of the 18L launch point this afternoon. Thought I picked up a piece of F16 FOD on 18R, but it was just a slipped microswitch.....
(7) Finally found something at Zaug's fit to eat...they will make a cold cut sandwich to order at the food court just off Aeroshell Square, by the Ford tent.
(8) Speaking of the Ford tent; beautiful displays of their latest technology... staffed with kids who don't know anything. On the other hand one of the bigger grins you can give yourself is watching the father-son duels for fastest time in the rally car simulator. Mostly the dads don't stand a chance.
(9) Lots of cool airplanes, but nothing this year topped Fifi. When they taxied up to Aeroshell Square it looked like a human tidal wave. People came from every direction.
(10) If you put a tip-over canopy on your -8, make a sign saying "No, it's not an RV-4" or answer the question a lot.
(11) Today's pink shirt at departure was apparently a tailwheel man. Despite calling every other aircraft type by brand or model, he kept refering to all the RV A-models as "tricycles", without model ID.
(12) Folks said I should go over to Runway 9-27 to watch Saturday and Sunday arrivals, which can be very exciting. Well, I hadn't been sitting out there 15 minutes when a fellow in an A36 pulled into an accelerated stall at about 100 feet, 2/3's of the way around the 180 degree 27 final. Bless his heart, he did the right things....shoved the yoke, got the wing flying,
then rolled upright just in time to snatch the yoke back and slam down onto 22 or the taxiway just to the south,
hard. The third bounce got the prop, but he taxied away.....certainly a contender for the "Luckiest Man at OSH 2011".
(13) Passed a C210 a few miles south of OSH like he was chained to a stump. I know it's old hat to some of you, but I'm still amazed at the way these RV's cover ground; 4.2 hobbs hours, OSH to MGM, 11500 feet and 182 knots true when level. What a machine....