July 18 Oskosh

SORRY ABOUT DAY LATE,BUT HAVE A POOR CONNECTION TO INTERNET AGAIN.
Ysesterday was a very good day. i went to Oskosh to see the eaa museum. It was a treat for me to see this. It is a vast facility, and they were getting ready for the annual convention in two weeks. in addition to the museum, there are two airfields. the local airport used by everybody, the big eaa field that is used for conventions that you see most of on tv. This is a huge field, they will have about 6000,000 visitprs here for the fly in. Also there is a grass strip between the museum and the old hanger area where many old airplanes and prototypes are displayed as they would have looked in the early days. Now to the pics. The first one is the front of the nbuiding as you would see it arriving. The second pic is of the first commercial space ship in landing configuration Note the tail in a flat configuration for more control. The third pic is the space ship in space configuration, Note the tail is up. This was neat that the tail went thru changes as they were telling about the flight on a big tv scrfeen behind the display.
The fourth pic is a view of the military hanger. Note the small red plane in the foreground. This is a remote controlled plane that was used in world war two for pilot fighter practice, It was a target plane, and later was used for reconnnince. The wing in the foreground with the star should be familliar to Wilmingtonians. It is the exact same plane that is on the battleship north carolina sternusedd for world war two sea missions.
The fifth pic is of serial number four of the p-51, this was an xp51 model. Origional was hand bnuilt as a prototype
Pic no. 6 is of fat boy the second atomic bomb. Yjis was one of the models that were used for testing. It was interesting to note that the mission was almost scrubbed because the tail fins would not fit in the planed, They ground a couple of inches off of the top of the fin so it would fit.
Pic no 7 is of the rear of the building from the old hangder area to give you an idea of the sie of this display area.
Pic no. 8 is one of the early models of an autogyro plane that was built early in ww 2 for the military.it was rejected because Sykorskey was building a true helicopter, using some of the patents that he had leased from the company that built the autogyro.
Pic 9 is another view of the rear of the museum.
Yhe next picture is of the old time hanger area and the grass strip in fromt of it . This is where most of the old prototypes are.
Pic 11 is of the spirit of St. Louis replica that is hanging in the main lobby.
Pic 12 is kof the main lobby area as you come in. Veryimpressive.
Icould have shot a lot more pics, but didndt want to load up on things.
Very good day.
Footnote for Mike I finally went into an Aldies grocery. THat place should be labeled big lots. Turned me off when they wanted a quarter to just get a crocery cart. Then when I overheard a couple talking about the rotten fruit in the produce section and saw the day old bread in the bread section. Then I left without anything.
Thats it for yesterday.
Today is spiting rain again and cold. I'm in a sweater again. iplan to go to Green Bay and see lambeau field.