This is me filming myself in the Denver airport en route to Oshkosh, WI.
Basically I was documenting the frustrations in air travel that Goli and
I were experiencing that day. It was definitely a nightmare trip
for us! |
Goli and I finally arrived at our cabin in Omro, WI around midnight--a
15 hour travel day for us from SF!!! We arrived with just a few minutes
to spare in catching the tail end of Mark's birthday. Goli brought
a cake with her, so we all celebrated before hitting the hay. |
Off to the airshow early in the morning! Ed gives us a team pep talk
as Mark and Goli listen attentively. |
Jeff mans the model Cesna equiped with our GPS-based flight attitude system
censors. When Jeff moves the plane... |
...it drives the artificial horizon display in the booth. |
The right side of our booth's display has our FlightSense
software running, showing some simulated flight info in the Oshkosh area. |
Here's Mark giving a run-through of our product's features to some interested
pilots. |
We all took turns with the exciting job of moving the plane around.
Most of the people walking by didn't realize that the plane was connected
to the display in the booth, so basically we just looked like idiots pretending
we were flying a silly model airplane around. Here's me looking like
an idiot.... |
...and here's Lance looking like a idiot!
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Even when we weren't moving the plane around, some of us still did pretty
well in the idiot impersonation department. Here's Jeff displaying
his talent at hanging a spoon on his nose. |
Ed appears to have a similar talent!
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Lance forked over the extra $5 and rented a convertible during the trip.
He also go stuck carting the model airplane back to SF and the only way
it would fit in the car was with the top down. Unfortunately for
Lance, it rained the day he drove back to Milwaukee to catch his plane.
So I can just imagine people saying, "Hey! There's that guy who thought
he was flying that plane at the airshow. What's he doing with the
top down in a rainstorm? What an idiot!" :-) |
What airshow would be complete without some airplanes! Here's a B-17
bomber taxiing to take off. |
Here's the same B-17 coming in for a landing.
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The Concorde was at the show for several days and was VERY LOUD!!! |
Here's an F-104 Starfighter, which was also VERY LOUD!!! |
There were also a lot of WWII airplanes in the Warbirds section.
Here's an F4U Corsair. |
And here's a P-51 Mustang.
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That's a big flag!
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