Safe airventure

[Bill Greenwood]

As for as I know there were no serious crashes or injuries as Oshkosh, I hope so.

[FlyingRon]

Serious with regard to injuries? No. Serious in regard to safety/airframe damage, HELL YES.
We had a Bo colapse the gear due to wake turbulance (at least that's what the pilot told me) with the trimotor close to the ground. There was a "minor" midair between an RV and a spam can (Mooney?) which resulted in the sheering off of an antenna but no other real damage.

[Sam Buchanan]

An RV-8 pancaked into the runway which flattened the gear with major damage to the aircraft.

[keen9]

There is video of the Bo. Wake turbulence . . . hah!

[SteveCostello]

There is video of the Bo. Wake turbulence . . . hah!

Yeah... that was my thought, as well.

[Bill Greenwood]

No fatalities or even serious injuries is a safe week for 10.000 planes. Unlikely that any 10,000 cars in a city would better that.

[FlyingRon]

No fatalities or even serious injuries is a safe week for 10.000 planes. Unlikely that any 10,000 cars in a city would better that.
Depends on whether you filed a flight plan or not :)

[rwanttaja]

No fatalities or even serious injuries is a safe week for 10,000 planes.

The vast majority of those aircraft were piston-powered fixed wing aircraft.

According to the 2017 FAA General Aviation survey, there are 143,000 active piston-powered fixed-wing aircraft in the US. That means about 7% of the airplanes in the US showed up in one tiny corner of Wisconsin last week. If the same proportion of the US's autos showed up at, say, the Daytona races, they'd have to find parking for about 19 million cars....

Ron "I want the meter concession" Wanttaja

[Floatsflyer]

The vast majority of those aircraft were piston-powered fixed wing aircraft.

According to the 2017 FAA General Aviation survey, there are 143,000 active piston-powered fixed-wing aircraft in the US. That means about 7% of the airplanes in the US showed up in one tiny corner of Wisconsin last week

Hey, hey hey, let's not get xenophobic about this. Of those 10,000 airplanes, about 1500 were Canadian registered. So your math of 7% must be revised downward to 5.9%.

[rwanttaja]

Hey, hey hey, let's not get xenophobic about this. Of those 10,000 airplanes, about 1500 were Canadian registered. So your math of 7% must be revised downward to 5.9%.

You're absolutely right, Floats. Guess we'd have to assume there were some Manic GTs, Lady Nivas, Campagnas, and Volvo Canadians in that Dayton parking lot. :-)

Ron Wanttaja

[Auburntsts]

Well can’t speak to aircraft and tents as both of ours made it through the slog fest without issue, but my liver sure took a hit over the week.

[Grum.man]

I am always shocked that everything runs so well especially considering that this is the only flight a lot of pilots make all year. That's not to say there weren't a bunch of accidents of airplanes headed to the show. The Cherokee mass arrival looked like an accident waiting to happen.