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To: taildragger

Osh is one of the items in my bucket list. ;)


19 posted on 07/30/2013 6:27:12 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant

Looks like we both missed it again, this year...

Been to Sun-N-Fun several times, though.

Privileged to have spent 45 minutes one-on-one with Burt Rutan back in 1976, Dean Wilson for an hour and a half in 1998 and about a half an hour with Jay Carter back in the late 90’s, picking his brain on rotor performance issues.

I was then and am still amazed that these world renowned aeronautical geniuses would take that much time to talk with and mentor a nobody who also loves the “out of the box” aspects of aviation design.

Great memories!

Back to the subject at hand, Gary Schmidt brought a Highlander and an Escapade to our local Jackson County fly-in not long after they moved operations to Walhalla.

It is good to see that they are still around and doing so well.


48 posted on 07/30/2013 8:45:54 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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