Big Gray Trailer

[stummers]

Did anyone else notice the gray trailer with the large dish on top by the barn and silo in the vintage area. The emblem on door was the seal for the FBI.

[nigel hitchman]

yes, it was there all week, at the end of the row of Globe Swifts. CCTV cameras on it too, so a friend said and keypad entry doors. Obviously something subversive going on in the Swift group!! Or maybe the nearby Ultralights, good excuse for a trip to the fly-in for the FBI guys!

[Joe Delene]

And now all our planes have a small tracking device cleverly hidden. The 'crumb trail' will be added to the ever increasing DHS data base to look for suspicious tracks.

[rwanttaja]

And now all our planes have a small tracking device cleverly hidden. The 'crumb trail' will be added to the ever increasing DHS data base to look for suspicious tracks.

Actually, not as far-fetched as you might think. About twenty years ago, a number of aircraft owners found an additional electronic device secreted behind their panels. The planes were all based in the southwest and were heavy-hauler types. Speculation was that the Border Patrol was trying to track them....

Ron Wanttaja

[flyboycpa]

I'm glad I didn't bring my Swift this year!

[JimRice85]

I was planning on taking my Swift but had to cancel due about a month out.

[ifly1848v]

Our engineer spotted this while we were setting up. He was interested, but kept his distance. We wanted to make sure we stayed out of the way of whatever it was doing and not cause any interference. He used a directional antenna and a spectrum analyzer to see what it was doing. His frequency analysis was all over the place (several bands, several channels/frequencies) but nothing out of the ordinary nor unexpected.

[Kurt Flunkn]

Just wait until they charge EAA a user fee for having the big gray trailer....and EAA signs a 10 year agreement! <j/k>

[gbrasch]

The National Guard pulled up one day near my airplane in a plain jeep, wearing plain clothes. They locked a device under and to a bench near by, but made no attempt to hide what they were doing when a friend asked, placing a radiation detector in place. And several other locations around the grounds.

[Fastcapy]

My brother, cousin, friend and I all noted that there seemed to be a lot more security roaming around than previous years. Like a noticeable amount more. And I have worked there behind the scenes when I was on the local sheriff dept here in Oshkosh. In addition this was the first year I had my bag checked as they checked every bag, not just random ones. (The bag checks are a whole different rant of mine) I even mentioned to my wife I wondered if they had some kind of threat, and that was before I knew of the gray trailer and radiation detectors. I can't recall if it was last year or 2012 but there was a threat, to the point local swat and fbi tactical units were deployed, and there were fbi snipers on the tower. Somewhere i have pics of them deploying from the tac vehicle with kosh tower in the background.