There are three flybabies that attend oshkosh regularly. A blue and white one, and an olive and yellow one that usually park on the main flightline near the homebuilt headquarters building, and a third (white) that parks in the homebuilt camping area which is farther from the flightline and farther south. Beyond that you need to go to the flightline registration booth once or twice a day and scan the registrations to find planes. They're posted chronologically by registration time so you have to scan them all. One day maybe they'll computerize this process, and you'll be able to search for your favorite type. If it's your first trip to OSH you'll want to walk the entire flightline. Bring comfortable shoes and lots of water. Be advised though, that they fill holes as people leave so just because you've looked at a section of flightline yesterday, doesn't mean they haven't snuck another flybaby in there today. The flybaby isn't a long range airplane so numbers at a big nat'l airshow are limited On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Scott Sanford wrote: > FlyBaby > > I would like to thank everyone for their great input! > > I am in the computer industry and I always dread talking to a new newsgroup or mailing list because it's easy to get a bunch of hostile "RTFM" and "Why don't you read the manuals" responses. Thanks for not trashing me out. : ) > > Also, www.homebuilt.org is a great site for finding Regulation information, thanks Joe. > > And, Wow! I can't believe that I got a response from Ron! You are a FlyBaby celebrity! I love your web site. I hope that I can meet you sometime. When I start building I will try to send you pictures if you want to post some more. (or maybe I will setup a small web site that you can link to) > > I have a friend that wants to take a 3 or 4 day weekend to go to Oshkosh this year so I hope everyone will bring their FlyBaby and some aspirin so they can stand my endless questons. : ) I will probably be lurking about in the FlyBaby area of the flightline for at least the first day, trying to rope in anyone who will tell me stories. > > BTW some background on me; > I am currently a student pilot, due to solo whenever the weather decides to cooperate. This is a sad story. > I fly out of Kent County Airport in Grand Rapids, Mi. My birthday was Sunday Mar 12. I was scheduled to fly that day and we went up to shoot some landings and I did great, even when the winds started picking up. After my third landing (which was a REAL workout, gusty crosswinds and all that) the winds started getting even worse. I wanted to solo, my instructer even told me that he knew I was ready based on how well I handled those nasty crosswind landings. But we did the smart thing and decided during the downwind that we would put it away and wait for the next time. > So my birthday wish didn't come true. Oh well, at least I didn't make a stupid decision and kill myself. > And so far every day that I have been scheduled to fly since then, the weather has forced us to cancel. Here's the icing on the cake; This weekend is great flying weather in GR (maybe a little gusty) but my instructor is out of town this weekend. : ( > The worst part of all is that I have the money in the bank! It's bad to not have the money to fly but it's even worse to have the money and not the right conditions. > Well I suppose these problems are par for the course for you guys, but I'm still getting used to them. > > Thanks again, > Scott S. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- David E. Munday E-mail: munday@engr.uky.edu Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Web: http://www.engr.uky.edu/~munday 521 CRMS Building Voice: +1 (606) 257-3263 University of Kentucky FAX: +1 (606) 257-3304 Lexington, KY 40506-0108 Office: 202 D. V. Terrell Bldg.