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1. 09:01 AM - Where are you?? (BobbyPaulk@comcast.net)
2. 10:24 AM - Re: Where are you?? (Paul Mulwitz)
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I thought there would be lots of tales about the trip to OSH and other 601 stuff
on here after "Oshkosh".
What's going on?? Did I miss something??
bobby
601 XL
125 hrs
Do not archive.
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| Subject: | Re: Where are you?? |
Hi Bobby,
I went to Oshkosh. I tried to capture it with still images on my
Nikon. I failed. It is just too big.
I went to the dinner honoring Chris Heintz. He was there with Paul
Poberezny - the founder of EAA. Both men spoke. Paul stole the show.
At 90 years old he is still building airplanes. It must be a hobby
that is good for your health.
I was mostly interested in the electric aircraft symposium (the second
annual, and my second). There were lots of interesting speakers
including Sergey Sikorsky - the second generation leader of his namesake
helicopter company. He was almost as old as Paul Poberezny and still
going strong. I guess building helicopters is just as good for your
health as building airplanes.
Perhaps the highlight of the electric symposium was a report about the
experimental electric helicopter project at Sikorsky. It only flies for
10 or 15 minutes, but is designed as a project to "Warm up" for future
certified electric aircraft production. Another great speaker was Abas
Goodarzi - the contractor for the electric power plant on the Sikorsky
electric helicopter project. He had a very interesting slide showing
electric powered airplanes are very practical with a requirement of
around 120 KW per ton lifted. Helicopters need around 5 or 6 times that
much power per ton to lift it.
There were over 500,000 people and over 10,000 airplanes at Oshkosh.
So, I just told about .00001 percent of the Oshkosh story.
Paul
Camas, WA
XL in flight test
On 8/10/2011 8:58 AM, BobbyPaulk@comcast.net wrote:
> List
> I thought there would be lots of tales about the trip to OSH and other
> 601 stuff on here after "Oshkosh".
> What's going on?? Did I miss something??
>
> bobby
> 601 XL
> 125 hrs
>
> Do not archive.
> *
>
> *
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