AirVenture 2005...
...was a great success and despite the usual 10 day run of 18 hour workdays, it was easily the most enjoyable of the five fly-ins I've been through. Apart from one bad storm on the first night the weather was perfect, the attractions (both aircraft and human) were spectacular and the crowds were large.
Full photo gallery can be found here.
Janet got to sit in SpaceShipOne when it stopped in Madison. She flew on the photo/video mission on the way up to Oshkosh.
The arrival of SpaceShipOne and White Knight is one of the most amazing things I've witnessed at an air show. 100,000 people in total silence... in awe at what they were seeing.
Paul Allen, Burt Rutan, Brian Binnie (Scotland's first astronaut, I discovered) and Mike Melvill. Can't say enough good things about the people from Scaled Composites - Mike & Burt in particular. People that have achieved incredible things, and manage to be wonderful human beings too.
There was a tornado warning on the Monday night and some torrential downpours. We got quite wet tying SpaceShipOne and White Knight down on the ramp in case the winds got strong (thankfully they didn't) .
Richard Branson came to sell the first commercial tickets for a ride into space with Virgin Galactic, and also to welcome his pal Steve Fossett who arrived in GlobalFlyer. Later in the week a woman asked me to sign her hat. She thought I was Richard Branson. Honestly!
GlobalFlyer
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