Of course, when that bad data is skewed to warmer temperatures, and you are trying to perpetuate a lie like Global Warming Caused by CO2, then having all those weather stations reporting warmer than true temperatures is a useful thing, innit?

This issue has been known about for YEARS, but they keep perpetuating the lie.

So playing catch-up the first day back.

But WOW.

One day really isn’t enough to see the entire show.

Much like every firearms enthusiast should attend an NRA convention, the Oshkosh show is a semi-required pilgrimage for pilots..

We flew into Fon Du Lac from Northwest Indiana. (Google “Fisk Arrival” for videos to find out why I didn’t want to go and land at Oshkosh) Takeoff was delayed as the ceiling at 06:45 was 200 foot and Viz was 3/4 of a mile. Well under my minimums (I like to have the ability to return to the airport should something happen on the climbout)..so we delayed….

We waited a half hour until the ceilings were about 800 and 2-ish miles. Got our IFR clearance and took off, The routing was….odd. First they routed us almost to Grand Rapids, then shot us across the lake to just outside of Milwaukee…..where we got below the clouds and went VFR from there. (There were no available IFR slots left into FLD (I tried to file for one but they were snapped up almost immediately 72 hours before) so we had to arrive VFR, but did go IFR for most of the trip) flew fairly high at 16,000 ….I had requested 10k, but 16 was what they gave me and so we flew it at 180 knots true for most of the way burning right at 32 gallons per hour.

I had another pilot in the right seat, who shot the landing into FLD as he wanted a landing in the 340 for his logbook….

The FBO was well organized and did a great job upon arrival. We turned the plane over to them and got tickets to the shuttle bus and waited.

The “Airventure” is HUGE. Tons of planes, huge exhibits, lots of vendors. Whole boatloads of people. It is kinda overwhelming at first.

After getting our ticket scanned and having our wristbands placed around our writs, we entered the show itself….al the while planes are screaming overhead trailing smoke and gyrating through the air.

Everyone who is anyone in the airplane world was there. Boeing/Foreflight, Garmin, Aspen, Avidyne, Collins, Continental, Lycoming, Pratt and Whitney, Rotax, Cessna/Beech. Honda, Cirrus, Kitfox, everyone who sells something airplane related had a booth, or an exhibit, or something. Lots of pretty young ladies and handsome young men and earnest salespeople.

Tools to build aircraft. Tools to bend aluminum, Tools to shape fiberglass. Tools to fix airplanes, Tools to cut and sew fabric, tools to glue fabric.  Glues…Patches for fabric aircraft. Used parts, used avionics. Used tools. New parts, super-duper lubricants. Acrylic polish. New engine cylinders, new baffles, air and oil filters. hoses stock and custom. ends for hoses, tools to make hoses, wiring tools, rivets, riveting tools, tools to remove rivets….Conversions from auto engines to airplane, booths representing destinations like the Bahama Islands (apparently lots of people fly to and around the Bahamas and the Caribbean) Engine rebuilders , Avionics installers, Tiedowns,  Window polishing companies (yes, really)….

And that was just the Tradeshow portion. Capitalism at it’s finest…(“Buy MY product!!!”) I didn’t see it all as there just wasn’t enough time. and I wanted to see the rest of the show…..

The airshow is sorta nonstop. Plane after plane doing aerobatics, flybys, precision flying….then a few dozen arrivals, then more airshow,,,,then a few more dozen arrivals, then a few more flybys. F-16’s then Mustangs, then biplanes, then FA-18’s then B-24’s, then some PBY’s…then a flight of Beech-18’s, then some experimental aircraft….then more airshow and aerobatics and some precision flights…then more jets…..then some DC-3’s…All punctuated by the repeated takeoff and landing of the Ford Trimotor…MC REALLY liked the jets.

And the planes on the ground! From C-17’s to 777’s to KC-46’s to Citations to Barons to 172’s to Senecas to Kitfox bushplanes to Pipistrel electrics to Technams to all sorts of smaller manufacturers. If it is currently produced and there is a market for it, then there was an example to show and a salesman to tell you about it. The military was there to show off some of their toys….

Then there were the owner-shown planes: from antique biplanes to just old aircraft, Civilian planes from the 30’s, 50’s, and more modern ones. Some fully restored, some just plain flyers. Some had original avionics and instrumentation, some had modern panels. Electras, Beech 18’s, Straight tail 172’s, Cubs by the bushel full, Mooneys, row upon row of Bonanzas. Cessna taildraggers by the tens of dozens, Row upon row of Luscombs, Barons, Aeronicas, Ercoupes,….Cessna Twins. Commanders and Twin Commanders….Even a Beech Staggerwing!. lots more too.

Warbirds by the hundreds!!!. P-51’s, Spitfires, FW-109’s. Me262’s, Zeroes, Corsairs…190’s. Devastators. Torpedo planes, Bombers! 24’s, 17’s 25’s…..A25’s…… Skyraiders. Kates, P-40’s, P-47’s,Yaks, Mosquito’s, Avengers…  You name it, if there was a surviving aircraft it was likely represented. Plus light reconnaissance aircraft.

And the Homebuilts! Hundreds and hundreds of them. All shapes and sizes and colors. If a person can imagine them to design and they fly, there was likely one at the show. Too many to list. Lots of really neat stuff if you are into that.

I reached overload about then, and really couldn’t take in more. My brain simply could not record anymore. One day really isn’t enough. I didn’t see half the aircraft, really. Plus all the time, while looking at aircraft on the ground, there is an airshow going on over your head….

I have to say that the organization was incredible. Hundreds, if not thousands of volunteers, all doing a great job. All polite, and cheerful. AND ALL VOLUNTEERS. Yes, there were employees at the concessions and stuff, but most were volunteers. Traffic guides, trash removers, trolley drivers,, all volunteers…all helpful and working for free. Whoever organized this volunteer army of people did a great job, as did the volunteers themselves.

One thing to note: the crowd was extremely polite…Much like the crowd at an NRA convention. (I would not doubt that the Venn diagrams overlap a great deal). These folks did not, for the most part, throw trash on the ground, were fairly respectful of the others in the crowd, didn’t push or cut lines, etc. It may be because these people were, for the most part, well educated and fairly intelligent (one cannot be a moron to be a pilot) and hardworking….kinda a self selected group. It may be the overrepresented demographic, it may be other factors…but this group was clean, polite and respectful of others. I dislike crowds, in general, but not-so-much this crowd.

Another note: No one gave two shits about Glowball Warmering. About 1/2 the crowd had either flown or driven fairly long distances to get there….(and, lets face it, airplanes are not the most fuel efficient way to travel) and the airshow itself burned large quantities of fuel,,,all day long….Carbon emissions was NOT an issue for any of us. Fuck Gaia.

Sadly, I was so overwhelmed that I did not take many photos, and those I did take are not worth showing….

If I go again, it will be for more than one day. We shall see. But it is a pilgrimage that is worth it for any pilot or aviation enthusiast. Like Mecca, everyone should visit at least once in their lifetime.

I normally walk between 8 and 10 thousand steps a day, but at Oshkosh I walked over 21,000….and that is with over 4 hours of sitting in planes and busses and cars getting to and from the show.

So, as Aaron says…. 1.4 out with 1 landing and 0.6 of IFR and 1.2 back with 1 night landing…… and a really long and fun day.

As evinced by the Washington DC mayor’s response to having 4000+ illegal invaders bussed from the southern border in Texas and Arizona to some tony neighborhoods in DC.

DC’s Democrat mayor calls in the NATIONAL GUARD to deal with migrants: Bowser demands help to deal with Texas Gov. Abbot’s border buses that have caused a ‘humanitarian crisis’

‘The pace of arriving buses and the volume of arrivals have reached tipping points,’ Bowser wrote in a letter to the Biden administration. ‘Our collective response and service efforts have now become overwhelmed.’

Note that the total number of illegals bussed to DC so far is less than the number of illegals that cross the border from Mexico every day in Texas OR Arizona. But since it is in DC it becomes a “crisis”. Not when it was in that flyover country where the people and rule of law doesn’t matter to the DC folks, but when it strikes close to home? Yeah, then Something Must Be Done.

More on Oshkosh as I digest and can comment.

I was attending the EAA Airventure at Oshkosh.

More later when I recover.

There will soon be Free Ice Cream flowing again.

I mean, less than 3000 cases of Monkeypox in the US, and less than 16K worldwide.

Yet, because it is a Gay Men’s disease, it is a “Public Health Emergency”.

Of course, it is, like AIDS, exclusively a disease of “Men who are intimate with men” (the media, for some reason, cannot say “gay” when referring to Monkeypox) . And, like Aids, it is simple to not get it, simply don’t sleep with other men. But that behavior seems to be difficult for Gay men to achieve….so it is spreading…..among Gay and Bisexual Men. Not in the rest of the population.

The media, the WHO, and the medical community claims this is an emergency…a Public Health Emergency…but it isn’t. Why is it that diseases that Gay Men spread somehow get the most attention and resources?

Denver police injured five bystanders when they opened fire in the busy Lower Downtown nightlife district as bars closed early Sunday, shooting a man they allege pointed a gun at officers. Those bystanders — three women and two men — were either shot by police or injured with shrapnel from the officers’ bullets, Denver police said in a news release Sunday afternoon. All five are expected to survive.

Three bystander shot. No statements as to the range of the encounter nor the total shots fired by police.

But it appears to be significantly less than 80% accuracy.

Contrast with Greenwood Indiana.

Instead, Bannon is looking at up to two years in jail for refusing the summons of the Jan 6 Star Chamber Congress.

But hey, “I Can’t Recall” worked for Hillary, so why not Bannon?

Lots of other staffers for Clinton said the same thing. None of them could recall the answers to the questions asked…

Seems to be a valid part of your testimony, if you are a Democrat….so why couldn’t Bannon use this?

Have you noticed the subtle change in the Covid Vaccine message?

It went from “The vaccine can keep you from getting covid”.

to “The vaccine can keep you from getting covid if you get your booster shots”.

to “The vaccine and boosters can keep you from getting Severe covid”.

to “The boosters can keep you from having long term effects from covid”.

Interesting progression, innit?

What it tells me is that the covid “vaccine” and boosters are ineffective.

I still can’t figure out why they are pushing them though, unless it is just a plan to make money for the pharmaceutical companies….but if that is the case them a LOT of people are in on it, so I dunno.

With blatant lies on inflation, it’s no wonder that Biden’s approval rating is in the toilet

Funny how that works: People who, you know, actually understand money, can see this, but the Liberals, who never actually worked a day in their lives or who live in sheltered academia and never actually produce anything can’t.

Worth the read. It doesn’t offer solutions, but it does show ecavtly how inept the folks steering the economy are….and how they are just ignoring reality to enact tho Liberal dreams.

We are all gonna be fucked soon if we aren’t already.

Have you seen the news shows? The advertisements for the next installment of the Jan 6 th hearings?

CBS cold not be hyping it more….almost like the buildup for the Sooper Bowl. NBC isn’t far behind.

I guess that for the Liberals this is a time to be making popcorn…for the rest of us (the majority) it is a “yawn” moment. Perhaps the folks who control such thins think the hype might garner some viewers.

I think that just like the other ones, few people will watch.