Hey Keith, Funny that you and Benn mention camping out near the runway... That is exactly what we did. We were at the approach end of the runway, right under the runway extension line into Sun 'n Fun. It sure was awesome to see the P-38 Lightning (Glacier Girl from the Lost Squadron), several P-51D Mustangs, F4 Phantom, some Corsairs, F16 & F18's, L39 jets, DC-3, Grumman Albatross'es, many private/business jets, the new Eclipse 500 VLJ (Very Light Jet), Adams A500 and A700, Lancair's, Cirrius'es, and all the various other home built aircraft, etc. It was AWESOME!
We were definitely woken up every morning around 7~7:30 AM as they started coming in for finals. Of course after watching them for a while and looking at some guys overshoot the base leg, then bank STEEP to make it back on line for short final (line-up with the runway) you could not help but wonder what would happen if the guy/pilot made a cross-controlled stall and nose dived it down into the ground... What would the chances be of being hit... *grin* If you end up going to Oshkosh give me a buzz. The chances are good that we will be going also -- if only for a day or two (over the weekend). Regards, Cameron -----Original Message----- From: Keith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 6:44 AM To: Cameron; RCSE Subject: Re: [RCSE] NATS or OSHKOSH? Cameron, If I can get the 172 ready by then (it's in need of LE repairs and some avionics work), I'm definitely going! I like what Ben Diss did, and will try to do the same. The thought of being camped out near enough to hear and see warbirds roaring off in the morning as a wakeup call is too hard to resist! I wish I had a Lance or Saratoga to fly there. I have over 1,000 hours in that type, and yes, what a great campout plane it would be! Keith RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
