Favorite Oshkosh Air show routine?

[FlyingRon]

Maybe they can have a day devoted to turbine-powered tractor pulling.

[I_FLY_LOW]

Maybe they can have a day devoted to turbine-powered tractor pulling.

LMAO
Or jet drag races, with a B-52 and a C-5...

[Jim Rosenow]

Red Devils.

Which ones, Jim?.....the red 450 Stearmans at RFD (Bob Heuer, Marion Cole, and Gene Soucy) or the 2nd generation (Gene Soucy, Tom Poberezny, and Charlie Hillard) in the Pitts' at OSH pre-Eagles? :-)

[JimRice85]

Gene, Tom, Charlie.

[captaindenim]

Bob Hoover's Shrike show was always amazing to watch. For the old timers out there, I always enjoyed Duane Cole too. Anyone out there remember Duane?

[Jim Rosenow]

Bob Hoover's Shrike show was always amazing to watch. For the old timers out there, I always enjoyed Duane Cole too. Anyone out there remember Duane?

I marveled at Duane for years...completely my aerobatic idol. Even have sort of a link to him. The mechanic who taught me rag and dope while we rebuilt my first (out of a barn) airplane had the distinction of welding up the first Cole Brothers Air Circus wingwalker stand. He had some stories...

[Mike Berg]

While I can appreciate the skills of aerobatics I seldom spend much time watching them. I did like Hoover and really liked the GB with Delmar. Most of the others seem pretty routine and I've been going to Oshkosh since the first one. What I do like is the flybys with vintage aircraft but "different things for different folks".

[Jim Hann]

What I do like is the flybys with vintage aircraft but "different things for different folks".

And that is why airshows need variety! I enjoy all of it but I don't want to see three acts in a row do the "same" thing! Sean Tucker followed by John Mohr followed by Fifi flying by is what I'm thinking!

[jjhoneck]

While I can appreciate the skills of aerobatics I seldom spend much time watching them. I did like Hoover and really liked the GB with Delmar. Most of the others seem pretty routine and I've been going to Oshkosh since the first one. What I do like is the flybys with vintage aircraft but "different things for different folks".

The older I get, it seems the less I enjoy the "whiz-bang!" aerobatics stuff, and the more I enjoy the simple "Homebuilts on Parade" -- which seem to be in decline in recent years, dang it.

(Although this year will be the first airshow season since Mary and I started doing gentlemen's aerobatics in the RV, so it will be interesting to better understand the control inputs for their maneuvers.)

[Bill Greenwood]

As for Bob Hoover, back in 1982 or 83 when I first started going to airshows I saw Bob fly in California, probably at Madera, but could have been Shafter. He came in on a long final for the north runway, and rolled inverted in his yellow P-51 and while inverted he lowered ( raised?) the gear, so that he was gear out, and ready to land at about a half mile final, but inverted. So he rolled upright and landed. I don't recall seeing him do this again, but he sure did that day.

I enjoy seeing the Oshkosh feature where the do a fly by starting with the oldest airplane and working to later rare ones, I think it is called Parade of Flight, and am not sure if they still do it.