| Finally got enough editing done to have some shots to share. EAA billed this as "year of the tanker", as well as the 70th anniversary of the Air Force Reserve meaning a lot of heavy metal showed up to commemorate those. I'm a little disappointed that it was also intended to be a commemoration of the Royal Air Force centennial, but on the days we were there none of the RAF aircraft (Spitfire, Gloster Meteor, Kermit Weeks' Sopwith Snipe which had a fuel leak, etc.) were operating.
Hometown Wisconsin ANG jets- F-16C from Madison and KC-135R from Milwaukee.
KC-10, call sign "Orca 70"- brought to OSH by an all-female flight crew.
Doc.
Red Bull Air Force, with Kirby Chambliss and Aaron Fitzgerald.
Scott Lewis in the Micro Jet.
Gene Soucy's Showcat
C-17 Demo performs minimum radius turn.
Maj. John "Rain" Waters with the F-16 Viper Demo team, with help of the Tora pyro squad, brings the Sound of Freedom. And did he ever- they didn't have the standard aerobatic box to do a full demo, but they burned lots of gas being fast and LOUD.
Two different Heritage Flight formations, Skyraider/Mustang/Viper on Friday and Viper with two Mustangs Saturday.
Honor flight of Vietnam veterans returns from Washington, DC.
Mark Patey's STOL turboprop called Draco, our campsite was just on the other side of the STOL field so got to sit around in the evenings watching them do circuits overhead.
Some neat stuff at the Ford tent, including a Mustang GT done up in colors of the Eagle Squadron of American volunteers who flew with the RAF before the US entered the war.
Minigun of Night Stalkers MH-47G Chinook.
EAA's Pitcairn Autogiro.
USAF T-6 Texan II in D-Day invasion stripe markings.
VX-23's F/A-18F Super Hornet CAG jet (slang term for the aircraft each Navy squadron paints in squadron colors) configured for buddy tanking, with retractable drogue centerline tank and 4x 480 gallon wing tanks.
Next three are gorgeous new warbird restorations in attendance for the first time. The C-47 "That's All Brother" is the actual lead ship for the paratrooper drop which opened the invasion into France on June 6, 1944.
P-51C in the WW2 markings of Lt. Don S. Lopez.
John Connor's Corsair in a rare 1950's gray color scheme used on a few of the AU-1 variant.
P-40 in AVG Flying Tiger colors.
Jim Peitsch.
One of the coolest highlights of the show. Jeff Boerboon in the Yak-110, which they made by merging two Yak-55 aerobatic planes with a single wing and then hanging a jet engine in the middle for extra thrust. It really goes, photos can't do justice.
GEICO Skytypers.
Lockheed T-33
Not just one, but two gorgeous Grumman F7F Tigercats. Only at Oshkosh....
Sean D. Tucker.
NASA's Grumman S-3 Viking.
KC-135 Stratotanker followed by KC-10 extender, both dragging an F-22.
HC-130P Combat King trailing refueling drogues, note crew members riding the cargo ramp with flag.
Raptors beat up the field.
The Vintage campsite.
Scott Yoak and Jim Tobul's Class of 45 performance at twilight.
Aeroshell Team.
Nate Hammond's Chipmunk.
Team Redline's RV-8s, framed by C-5, F-15 and E/A-18.
Navy crews watching fireworks from the E/A-18 Growler.
Edited by Clay SEIA 8/19/2018 20:22
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Oshkosh Airventure 2018
