Work on the back-up system has mixed results, and I think there is no point listing it all here, since few of you have the RWS EC3 engine controller. I'll just let it go that it it working better, but still not 100%.
Another Oshkosh has come and gone and this year was exceptionally special. This was the 25th year I have had my Q-200 to the big show and it is also the year I earned my 30 year tag. Actually, I should have amended the words "Has been flying over 30 years" with "Off and On".
I really wanted to get our mobile home up to Oshkosh this year, but it just wasn't doable, so I resolved to leave the Quickie at home next year so I could drive it up with Sandy. More about that later.
The AirVentureCup was great as usual. This year the starting line was at Mitchell, SD, so it was convenient for me to stop at Topeka on the way up to visit with Cherish, Brent & Fisher. Fisher was really disappointed when he found he couldn't get a ride this time around. Can you tell?
It's really hard to capture what it like having 70+ race planes on the ramp. Let's just say it's pretty exciting.
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| First time racers applying their numbers |
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| Checkered flag toes. |
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| Fast Class |
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| The omnipresent Jeff Barnes. |
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| Pre-race dinner and pilot's briefing |
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| Thunder Mustangs at the ready. |
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| Jeff Lang's Turboencapulator powered Soneri. |
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| Typical cockpit organization. |
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| Race aircraft strewn all over the place at our interim stop, Owatonna, MN. |
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| Honestly, we really do know what we're doing. |
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| Finally made it to Oshkosh. |
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| Cozy Girrrls put on a great spagatti dinner for the Canardians. |
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| With AnnElise Bennet |
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| I think this was departing from Owatonna. Lots of wake turbulence. |
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| Quickie and Dragonfly folks having a cold one before the evening airshow. |
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Richard Kaczmarek proposing to Wendy at the end of the Quickie Builders Association
annual stockholders meeting. |
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| Reg Clarke's very fast Subaru powered Q-2, from British Columbia. |
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| Going to church in Oshkosh. |
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| Uncle Doc, Rich, Dee, & Sam |
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I was in the conga line for departure for over 40 minutes!
Here, I am only number six or seven in line. |
So, after doing another AirVenture Cup race and Oshkosh for a week, I am finding it hard to hang up my racing shoes. I want to make it go faster, faster faster. Now all I have to do is to firure out how to get the motor home and the plane there at the same time.
