Saturday Oshkosh

Early morning ballon launch.  In my past visits it's been to windy for this.  However this was the perfect morning.

Friday Oshkosh

Friday's weather was not the best until late afternoon.  I did a few more seminars and a little shopping.
I'll add photos a little later.  I forget the card adapter for the photos.  Where I camp there is no Wi-Fi and it's about a mile away.
Today it's going to be beautiful weather, all day.  This will also be the busy day and the night airshow will happen later.

Canadian Snow Birds

Water Tanker for firefighting.

Thursday Oshkosh

Yesterday was occasional rain and overcast for the day.  If you like yesterdays weather,  you'll love today's.  Glad Deb packed warm cloths, it's around 60 degrees now.
Today it's seminars and more shopping.
The photos below are from my camping site.  It's located about 1/2 mile from the end of runway 36.  Nice place to take photos of planes on approach.

Rain

Wednesday Oshkosh

Yesterday(Wednesday) had it's mix of weather.  Around noon hit with a storm but by early afternoon the weather was OK for the  airshow and night airshow.
Today will be a mix bag, alittle rain and maybe some sun later.
I been to quite a few of these, but I don't think I've ever seen so may planes and people.
Today it's vendors and seminers.

 

Oshkosh photos

Goooood morning Oshkosh

A little R&R. Last time I was here was in 2009. Good to be back 

A peek under the cover

I figured that I should take a peek under the cover just to make sure there weren't any rodents living in the car.  No rodents, just a whole lot of motor oil.  Over time the oil drains out of the remote tank and raises the oil level in the engine.  Then seeps out.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there.

Race-car ?

Somewhere under that pile of stuff is a race car.  Lack of time and space has left it a table.  I needed to work on the Suburban and so some of the walls had to be removed so I could pull the car into the barn. I do hope in the near future to unearth it and change the oil and filter.

David Hobbs Can-Am Riverside 1971

I acquired this 16mm film last year.  Just got around to converting it to DVD.  A interesting thing happened after I uploaded onto youtube.  The present owner of the car called me and asked for a copy of the film.

This looks like fun

Vintage Hydroplane racing.  Maybe in a couple of years?

F5000 poster for 2016

2016 F5000 Drivers Association poster.  Created by Steve Bedford.

A bitter-sweet end for our truck

After a 11 years of service the truck has expired.  Coming back from Indiana last week the engine(diesel) lost a head gasket(or cracked head).  This happened just outside of Dayton, OH.  A lot of smoke out the exhaust and coolant in the oil. We limped off the exit into a hotel parking lot.  Talked to a few repair places and came to the conclusion the repair might be worth more than the truck.  So for now, the truck sits in a Uhaul storage lot in Ohio until I figure out the next step.

Dash cam

2016 update

Took a peek under the cover just to make sure all is ok.  In the past, mice have made home in our various vehicles.  The worst is when they chew on the plastic and rubber.
All looks good, no damage.
Still looking at 2017 to get the car back in race condition.