AirVenture 2012 - General |
| Bruce and Bill at
the big show! |
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Walking into the show from the main
entrance for the first time Monday morning. |
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| Check out the
banner on the tower: World's Busiest Control Tower. |
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The view from the control
tower. (Photo from EAA Facebook Page) |
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| The air traffic
controllers are easily
identiable in their pink shirts. (Photo from EAA Facebook
Page) |
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| The Homebuilder's
Hangar had a neat banner on each side showing key airplanes in the history
of homebuilding. Note the RV-1 in 1972. |
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| And there is my
plane -- the RV-7 -- in 2001. |
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Inside the Homebuilder's Hangar,
Bruce and I listened an interesting talk by the builder of this Delta
Dyke which has been flying for 40 years. |
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I attended the "chalk talk" on gas welding Monday. On Tuesday
and Wednesday I practiced gas welding under the supervision of the
EAA instructors. I picked up some good tips from the
instructors. I did fairly well; maybe I'm finally getting the hang
of it.
It seems like the EAA has been critized lately for not doing enough for
homebuilders. But AirVenture has a wealth of resources for the
builder who wants to learn any of the skills: gas welding, TIG
welding, wood, composite, sheet metal, riveting, fabric covering,
electrical, etc. One of the gas welder instructors said you
could get six hours of supervised practice a day at AirVenture if you were
so inclined. The homebuilder stuff is there for whoever
wants it. |
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In another workshop tent, they were
covering the ailerons and flaps of a B-17! Apparently the B-17
Aluminum Overcast had been damaged by hail. So they were repairing
its components in front of everybody at AirVenture. |
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| Man, that's a big
aileron. |
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| A Poberzny Super
Ace, sans fabric. |
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Could General Aviation be flying electric-powered airplanes in twenty years? |
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Who drinks this stuff? |
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| I was drooling over
these accordian hangar doors at a booth in one of the four big Vendor
Buildings. My hangar doors are terrible. I have to
go into my neighbors hangar just to open and close my doors, plus they
screech so loudly that I should probably wear ear protection. |
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The new "Luxury Boxes" on the flight line so the rich
and famous can sip designer bottled water away from the masses while watching
the airshow. |
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| An airplane for
the true outdoorsman. |
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