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Thebatman From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 829 posts, RR: 10
Posted (3 years 9 months 4 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 7179 times:

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Just got back from my first day at AirVenture 2009. Here's a pic I took of the Airbus A380. If any of you are going or have gone to Oshkosh, post your pics!

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EC001 From France, joined Jan 2009, 92 posts, RR: 8
Reply 1, posted (3 years 9 months 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 7139 times:

Great shot there TheBatman!

It's always difficult to catch that huge bird while it's doing it's air demonstrations!

I've never heard of Air Venture, is it a big airshow in the US??

cheers,

orian

FighterPilot From Canada, joined Jun 2005, 1324 posts, RR: 24
Reply 2, posted (3 years 9 months 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 7113 times:

Quoting EC001 (Reply 1):
I've never heard of Air Venture, is it a big airshow in the US??

Only the biggest.

Sorry, couldn't help myself. wink

Cal

*Insert Sound Of GE90 Spooling Up Here*

EC001 From France, joined Jan 2009, 92 posts, RR: 8
Reply 3, posted (3 years 9 months 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 7101 times:

Quoting FighterPilot (Reply 2):
Only the biggest

lol Hey.... this year's Paris Bourget airshow was fine too! Wink

cheers,

o2

76794p From United States of America, joined Apr 2008, 341 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 6522 times:

did you see the landing i hear it was pretty rough

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VTBDflyer From Thailand, joined Aug 2006, 368 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 6470 times:

Quoting 76794p (Reply 4):
did you see the landing i hear it was pretty rough

I was there for the landing on Tues. There were strong cross winds coming from the west. Runway 36(L) was the only runway that it could use. There was only one turn off that the A380 could take to get to the display area. All of the taxiways past that one were too small, so they would have had to tow him back. Upon review of the landing, he planted it right on the numbers in order to have enough stopping room. It looks worse in the videos than it did in person. I'm no pilot, but I'd say for the conditions that day and the fact that he HAD to make that taxiway, it was an okay landing.

Fly Thai

Thebatman From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 829 posts, RR: 10
Reply 6, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 6437 times:

Yes, there were strong crosswinds, but the landing was pretty nice, IMHO. I'm in the process of putting all of the video footage on youtube, so you can watch the landing and see what YOU think! Smile

Here's another photo that I took that turned out pretty good- the Scaled Composites White Knight Two (Burt Rutan / Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic airplane):

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww199/xxdarkknight/WhiteKnightTwo.jpg

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