One more time I took a quick look through thousands of Oshkosh pictures. As always in these cases, the archive had left me reassured it would be good for feeding the blog with imagery for at least another decade. Then maybe, I’ll need to go to the ‘AirVenture’ again for ‘refreshing’ 
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Here she is - a proper candidate for our contest ‘FIRST REGISTERED ONE HUNDRED YEAR OLD FLYING PLANE’. Although she qualifies, she’s a bit too young yet, - all the data available on the Internet shows this ‘Waco’ Model QCF-2, registered in the USA as ‘NC 1142′ was ‘born’ in 1931. So, she is just 77 year old ‘babe’. Read the rest of this entry »
Surprisingly, but one ‘loose guess’ expressed by myself with regard to some painting job features on some vintage aircraft seen at Oshkosh ensued an interesting discussion which you can see in a string of replics under this picture on Clashmaker’s Flickr photostream. Read the rest of this entry »
Walking along the endless lines of experimental aircraft at Oshkosh is a genuine adventure of exploration. And it is an exploration of ingenuity too! Think about it, - where else other than in Oshkosh you could see so much evidence that experimental aviation is being driven by a bunch of truly ’smart’ people. Read the rest of this entry »
Cool, here’s the name of a Canadian on shiny corrugated aluminum skin of the American Ford Trimotor.. Grant McConachie, one in a constellation of the famous Canadian bush pilots.. remember, that one - ‘with a briefcase’. Read the rest of this entry »
Radial engine is back to Canadian bush. Noteworthy that it is a Russian engine now. Well, generally speaking, radial engine hasn’t been written off yet completely as a choice of power plant for specifically bush aircraft. But it presumably means those choices were made many, many years ago, when that design for internal combustion engines was ‘in fashion’. Or, in favour among the ‘then’ engine manufacturers. Read the rest of this entry »
See this picture
I took it on today’s afternoon from a spot inside the Concourse D by the Gate 33, as we were anxiously waiting for a Horizon Air Flight 2233 final call.
Soon it became obvious there’s no chance to get on this flight as the ’stand-by travelers’, - it was totally packed, so we left the air side, listed ourselves for an early morning flight, and went back home.
Attempt #1 failed.
Oshkosh is a great place to watch the different kind of flight performances - it is actually a ’show of shows’ where you can see a variety of ‘excerpts’ from many theme-specialized events (like this one: ‘Dave Dacy Airshows’). Of course, there’s been a lot of aerobatic flying performed there, by an array of teams and individual sporty’s pilots.
And it was a sort of natural thing that our attention was attracted to Sergei Boriak, a world-class aerobatic pilot, - ‘born in the USSR’, as myself (he lived in my native Kazakhstan too!), - and my name-sake, to all this
Darn! - just unable be ‘too serious’: when I was writing previous post on the topic of ‘Boeing in Russia’ it happened to me again: at some point I ‘had given in’ and deviated from a ’serious tone’, and, instead of giving some ‘facts and figures’ to the audience of visitors that probably wanted to see them in order to find out if there’s any proof of an ‘allegedly growing Boeing’s presence in Russia’, I began to talk about planes’ names, and making fun of ‘Boeing the Pushkin’… Well, isn’t it a good proof ?
But today I recalled one recent episode, and it came to me I should share it ‘to top up’ the topic. It is about another plane bearing a really funny name
‘Hey! Look at that!’, I exclaimed in a surprise when we noticed this aircraft at Oshkosh Seaplane Base. A few days ago we saw it having just come from Yellowknife, NWT, to Red Lake, Ontario.
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