As for as I know there were no serious crashes or injuries as Oshkosh, I hope so.
As for as I know there were no serious crashes or injuries as Oshkosh, I hope so.
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.
An RV-8 pancaked into the runway which flattened the gear with major damage to the aircraft.
Last edited by Sam Buchanan; 07-31-2019 at 07:29 AM.
There is video of the Bo. Wake turbulence . . . hah!
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.
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