I see a bunch of you lucky dogs went to Wittman Regional Airport in the last couple of weeks!

A bunch of good stuff being posted!

Timothy Aanerud

Doug Robertson

Mark Pasqualino

Sergey Riabsev

Bob Simmermon

Mark Silvestri

Jim Uber

Among others I'm sure.

One of my life goals is to spend the week camping amongst the airplanes at Oshkosh...one of these days.

Thanks, Zane. A couple of tips: we flew in early arriving Saturday 26 July, and it was much easier to photograph aircraft unobstructed by the later crowds. My first Saturday and Sunday photos are generally uncluttered-not so the rest of the week. Be sure to get to the seaplane base-shady and cool in early morning and lots of action. I was fortunate to meet pilot/photographer Timothy Aanerud and friend Scott at 2pm Friday in shade of the old FAA tower which will be demolished after this year's show. We had a good time watching the daily afternoon air show. I was there 9 days, then flew to Dayton, Ohio to visit the Wright-Patterson USAF National Aerospace Museum. We also toured the Eclipse Jet mockup and flight test hangar at Albuquerque, NM on way back to CMA in the Bonanza. A great 3,500 mile trip with in-flight photo ops also. Took about 2,000 photos with new Canon.

Last year EAA AirVenture 2007 had over 560,000 paid admissions and over 10,000 aircraft. Rates this year were reportedly running ahead of last year. Plan ahead for this huge world draw. You will hear many of the world's languages at OSH, and see truly rare, historic, unusual or one-of-a-kind aircraft. A COZY Mark IV flew solo all the way from Israel, for example.

Several local SoCal aircraft also flew to OSH-Nanchang CJ-6As N147M, N9278F and N556TR as well as Turbine Legend N724RX and Aeronca 7AC N3039E were seen.

See my photos fom Oshkosh and photos of another Russian guys here:

http://www.reaa.ru/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1217153342/180

my nickname at this forum is Pkk, dont forget to turn pages.

As Zane said, there were quite a few contributors to Airport-Data present at Oshkosh this year. Too bad the old control tower is being torn down. It is a wonder meeting place. The new control tower won't be as nice. I have used the control tower to meet other netizen's from USENET's rec.aviation group before the cell phones were common place.

I should had an "airport" photo taken with Doug and I, but for some reason I forgot to do this. Meeting other contributors from A-D is always fun.

My last trip to Oshkosh was in 2001. It was good to go back. Now that my photography has gone digital, I find myself taking many more pictures than I did in the past. :-)

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I really wanted to get to OSH this year. I haven't been there since 1998 and back then I wasn't really into photography, I was doing more video tapes. I had a cheap camera then - I think I might have a total of 5 photos on here from that 1998 trip.

I didn't have enough vacation days this year to go to both OSH and Thunder Over Michigan - and I already had planned to go to Michigan during Thunder Over Michigan weekend since my parents 40th anniversary and a cousin's wedding also happened that same weekend.

I will try to get to OSH nexxt year.