Oshkosh 2006 - Page 1
I shot around 624 images during preparation, travel, and covering Oshkosh 2006. Here are a few:
The week before Oshkosh. Return from test flight of new electronic ignition from Lightspeed Engineering. I can't speak enough for how much it's improved the Lancair.
Pre-dawn on departure day - July 21.
Co-pilot Kathryn in the dawn. She made sure I did everything right. We laughed at each other all day because we were both holding our arms up funny in front of us.
Just a few days before the first "Very Light Jet", the Eclipse, was to be certified, we saw it in testing at Double Eagle II airport where we stopped for gas just west of ABQ.
Beautiful valleys between ABQ and Los Vegas New Mexico.
Beautiful valleys between ABQ and Los Vegas New Mexico. Part Deux.
Your humble correspondent, somewhere over eastern New Mexico.
Where the land met the sky over eastern New Mexico.
Canyon in SE Colorado. For those red rock walls to look that big, they must be several hundred feet high. That would be impressive to hike through.
Little puff clouds, with an occasional rain shower cloud reaching to 15-20k feet or so was the norm from Colorado to Iowa.
The airport at Iowa City, Iowa had just had it's version of "Mieg's Field", where bulldozers suddenly showed up and cut up the runway. It wasn't quite as serious because this was the shortest of three runways. But the un-announced closure with no FAA notification was significant.
We stayed the first night at the Alexis Park Inn & Suites hotel, an Aviation theme hotel in Iowa City, Iowa. Room keys have the appropriate "Remove Before Flight" key fob. We stayed in the Chinese and South Pacific decorated "China Clipper" honeymoon suite.
