Blakesburg on Saturday.

One of the two rows of Monocoupes at Blakesburg.

Greg Herrick parks his Stinson Tri-motor.

Waco on takeoff. This picture was an experiment and

I really like the way it turned out.

Bellanca

Sky runs the flight sim for the kids.

Monocoupe under clear skies.

We're going to Blakesburg!

We're headed up to Blakesburg for the annual Antique Airplane Association Fly-In. I pulled Sky out of school after his 2nd hour Algebra class and we went out to Creve Coeur and pulled the airplane out of the hangar.

Sky munches on a sandwich before we depart.

Hot and hazy were the words of the day. When we left it was 96 degrees out
with a heat index of 102. We had to go up to 4,500' to get out of the bumps.

Headed North.

Bill French climbs out on takeoff in his 1935 Waco CUC headed towards the Antique Airplane Association Fly-In held at Blakesburg, Ia.

Building the Monosport Exhaust

Glenn Peck adjusts the jig for the Monosport exhaust he's building.
He won't have the airplanes at this years AAA Fly-In up at Blakesburg, IA.

Bill Austin gets a Rawdon T1!

Bill Austin returned this week with his recently acquired Rawdon T1 from North Perry Airport in Miami.

The airplane had been built as a sprayer and owned by a banner-towing operation. The airplane hasn't flown in years but is complete having set inside a hanger the entire time. It's serial number 31 out of the 36 built.

This will make the second Rawdon at our field, the other being Phil and Terry Chastains. Their father, Jack Chastain, formerly worked for Herb Rawdon and served as Test Pilot pilot for the T1 series.

T-28 Trojans make a pass.

The Aeroshell Aerobatic Team.

Gene Soucy and Teresa Stokes.

We were asked by a magazine photographer to go for a

photo-shoot alongside our friend Mike Thern in his

yellow Fairchild 24 Sunday morning.

Sky snapped this great shot during that shoot.

This was the most exciting part to an otherwise drab and rainy Oshkosh.

Oshkosh-Long Post

Sky and I on our way up to Oshkosh Monday morning. Clear weather and smooth flying.

The view of Oshkosh looking north from the final to 36L.




A panorama of the Vintage West parking/camping area. That's right, it's empty. Why? Maybe it was the weather...but the homebuilts and warbirds made it. Maybe the economy in general or the price of gas? Or maybe it's just the owners of Vintage Aircraft have finally got fed-up with the way they're treated by Vintage and EAA and they no longer attend.
You decide.

Aerobatics.

The CAF's B-29 "Fifi" attended, its first visit since 1995.

A Corsair takes off runway 18. Several Corsairs were in attendance as part of

the Salute to Naval Aviation.

Always a crowd favorite, a P-51 Mustang lifts off the runway.

A Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, the only one flyable in the world.

Sky tries out Eric Presten's Bleriot.

Sky and a F4F Wildcat.

Sky in front of Fifi.

Andrew King sits in the Curtiss Pusher.

A Harriet Quimby reenactor poses by the Bleriot.

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