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Oshkosh 2012

When I got into aviation I had never heard of the term "Oshkosh" other than it being the clothing kids wore.  Little did I know there was this function out there where over 500,000 aviation enthusiasts attend every year to celebrate aviation.  Its technical name is Airventure, but it's often referred to as "Oshkosh".  Information about this can be found at www.eaa.org/airventure and it doesn't do it justice.  It's a week long aviationpalooza of airplanes.  Lots and lots of airplanes.  Anything that can fly is there.  Hot air balloons, helicopters, sea plans, land planes, military airplanes, bit airplanes, little airplanes (really little airplanes).  As a friend who goes like too say, "you never really know how poor you are until you go to Oshkosh" - and it's true.  Some airplanes are inexpensive... others, well, let's just say I won't be able to afford them in many lifetimes much less this one.

The first year I went I took the StingSport LSA that I was an owner in (4-way partnership, ugh, don't do that) and set off into a week of the unknown.  I was joined on the trip by a guy I met a week or so before who was interested in going.  We didn't camp this year as the LSA was not able to carry an extensive amount of extra weight and even a tent and sleeping bag would have been asking a bit much.

Needless to say, Oshkosh blew my mind and anyone who is even remotely interested in aviation should attend this event.  It's a week long event with many noisy, shiny, unique planes.  There is rarely a moment during the day where you can't look up and see at least 5 to 10 different types of airplanes overhead, all going different directions.  Serious Kudos to the air traffic controllers in keeping everyone safe.

This was the year of the Cub - and there were hundreds and hundreds of Cubs to see.  After the first hundred they all kinda started blending together.