Hawkeye’s Squawkbox

Had the great pleasure of spending part of the day with my eldest son and his family at the show yesterday. Though it was communications chaos trying to coordinate a meeting location, we finally did just as the afternoon air show was starting. The girls were excited about the airplanes, including the little balsa gliders the got from one of the exhibitors. The only part that seemed to bother either one of them were the jets. Especially the F-18E Super Hornet that was part of the Heritage Flight. It made a really noise takeoff and a sneak pass as part of the show. AWESOME!

I also reestablish my acquaintance with Dave Aiken, owner of Aiken’s Aeroplanes. Which is the go to place for die cast models of aircraft! Dave and I had a long chat about business and of course the air show. Dave and his family are regulars to AirVenture and they have a booth located in the famous FlyMarket each year. The whole family works very hard to bring a great selection of products at a fair price to not only the attendees at EAA, but also their on-line customers as well.

The arrival of the V-22 Osprey was delayed until Thursday from what I was told. I sorta expected that bit of news.

I added more photographs to my Gallery. Some of you have experienced a little difficulty viewing them. I encourage you to download the PicLens Software plug-in, it makes viewing larger photo collections much easier.

I had planned on being at the show today (Wednesday) but I had a few commitments to tend to on the business front. It gave me a day to recover from the heat and humidity, got a rather nice tan (burn) started. The wife accompanied me on Monday is recovering slowly from a nice blistering burn.

Word of advice, make sure you double check your cameras to ensure you have installed film or a memory card for those who do digital. Also be familiar with the equipment before you get to the event. Watched a couple folks have one of those “camera moments.”

One was clicking away and realized he had taken more exposures than his 36 exposure roll would hold. Opened the camera to find no film inside. Another gent was shooting his digital, only to discover all the shots were not captured, no memory card installed.

Probably the most funny and frustrating for one poor aviation enthusiast was his lack of experience with his new digital video camera…he recorded lots of footage of his feet walking the grounds, but not one frame of any of the aircraft and other sights he though he had. Keep your eyes peeled for a slightly used video camera for sale in your local paper…might just be this guys.

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