Oshkosh 2010

[VictorBravo]

Considering my previous success taking advantage of the overwhelming innocence and gullibility of (now two separate) Taylorcraft Forum members when I asked previously about sharing lodging and event-related expenses for two major aviation trade shows...

If anyone is attending Oshkosh this year... and already HAS room, board and transportation to-from the event... and wants to save significant money on attendance passes, parking, and other amenities...

Please contact me at victorbravo (at] sbcglobal [ dot} net ASAP.

I'm trying to go be a newbie vendor at Oshkosh. The small display booth itself costs more than I've bought and sold some flyable airplanes for. Transportation between there and LA appears to be managed very authoritatively by Al Capone Airlines (in close association with the Internal Revenue Service). For some reason the entire yearly income of several small surrounding communities appears to be rolled up solely into the cost of a room, which often does not include so much as a toilet. I've been considering committing a minor crime in Wisconsin to stay in the local jail cell, which I understand is now considered a luxury suite. Camping at the show site is also (annoyingly) high priced although it does include 3 inches of water in the tent and a minimum of 8,000 mosquitoes at no extra charge.

But the cost of my booth will include admission passes and parking, which I can offer in exchange for a place to crash at night and a shower in the morning. So I can save someone a significant amount of money.

Please contact me ASAP, because this is weighing heavily on my ability to go to this event.

Bill

[1938BF50]

Re: Oshkosh 2010

Bill,

I am sure you would rather find something closer but you are welcome to stay at our home in Ft. Atkinson...less than an hour and a half away. I could pick you up at either MSN or MKE. I have a second car you could use as I am working that week. Are you familliar with the term "Winter Beater" as describing the the daily driver in northern climates?

As an added bonus, we have much bigger mosquito's with the thirill of knowing that any given one could be carrying Nile Virus!

I will be camping at the Brodhead Pietenpol Fly-In the weekend leading into Airventure. This is 50 miles SW of Ft and the highlight of my summer. I have not missed a Piet Fly-In in 13 years.

[Taylor Maid]

Re: Oshkosh 2010

I have room! ...next to my airplane! Bring a tent!

[VictorBravo]

Re: Oshkosh 2010

I have room! ...next to my airplane! Bring a tent!

Thank you sincerely Suzy, but my snoring registers on the Richter Scale (The recent tsunami was reportedly traced back to my sleep habits). I'm afraid that I'd be run out of the classic/vintage area at gunpoint on Morning # 3 !

Truth be known, as a one-man sales operation I'll be working so hard at the event that the comfort of an actual bed may be a luxury that's earned. Especially if the weather is less than fabulous.

[N95334]

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Suzy,
What Bill is saying us old farts need comfort for our old bones. You young pilots can sleep on the hard Wi ground without ill effects.

Dennis the Menace

[AKbrew]

Re: Oshkosh 2010

Suzy...I don't know what to make of these guys. I am borderline elderly and I would JUMP at the chance to pitch my tent next to yours and stay up all night smoking cigars by the light of a stolen WalMart "wet floor" warning sign. They don't know what they're missing!

[VictorBravo]

Re: Oshkosh 2010

OK Jim you busted me. It's not that I need the comfort... it's that I have heard from several forum members that partying with Taylor Maid may be too much for one person to withstand !

Suzy I may not be able to stay out there in the vast tent wilderness with you, but I may be able to tip a glass with you and the other uncouth Taylorcraft roughnecks one evening after the show. (That is, if the barbarian hordes at the show haven't chewed off all the meat from my bones during the day)

You guys come find me during the show, I'll be in one of the main display buildings, not sure which one yet.

[Robert Lees]

Re: Oshkosh 2010

Bill, we camp as a group in Camp Scholler close to the flightline. Perhaps not as close as Suzy, but with perhaps more luxury (kitchen, running water, electric)...and all in the non-electric, non-running water area!!.

You'd be welcome to join us; we have transport....I can nip out & get you a nice thick airbed from Wallyworld.

The Camp Scholler showers are really very good.

As for the snoring...you'd be in good company!

Rob

[Joel Severinghaus]

Re: Oshkosh 2010

Bill,

I'd endorse Ambassador Lees' "Oshkosh Irregulars" campsite in Camp Scholler -- they're located a shorter walk to the main display hangars than they are to even Theater in the Woods. If you slept in a WalMart tent there, it would be only a five minute walk from your booth to a cold beer at the end of the day, versus maybe a frustrating hour in a car creeping out of the crowded parking lots into outside civilization at closing time. I hear the Camp Scholler showers are much improved, and I think they even have flush toilets now. There is also drop-off laundry service in Camp Scholler, which will bring back clean clothes the next day.

But having camped several times in Camp Scholler, I've come to appreciate the relative solitude of a tent beside my plane way down in the South 40, past the ultralight runway, where one hears only crickets rather than Honda generators all night. Pack earplugs for sleeping in a tent in Camp Scholler.

And don't feel bad -- I know I'm not man enough to party with Taylor Maid either. I remember one year at Oshkosh when they parked a quiet, bookish older gentleman in a Cub next to her Taylorcraft. I resisted the urge to go apologize to him in advance on behalf of all the other Taylorcraft pilots. But I noticed that he and his plane had relocated the next morning...

[Taylor Maid]

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I don't know what you guys are talking about! I'm just a doey eyed fawn in the woods! It's the rest of the crowd...and the green alien! TRUST ME!

Hope to see you all in July!

--Suzy

[flybikefarm]

Re: Oshkosh 2010

We are going up on the 22 to set up camp and help get the vintage red barn ready. If anyone needs transportaion to wally world call. 815-674-0494 George

[Joel Severinghaus]

Re: Oshkosh 2010

OK, so Suzy claims she's innocent... but whatever you do, don't camp next to this guy:

[VictorBravo]

Re: Oshkosh 2010

HOO-AAA.

I have been given a booth space, building A number 1152 I think.

Air Trans turned out to be fairly inexpensively priced, and there is a bus from Milwaukee to Oshkosh. Now the trick is finding a way to get my show stuff there without being sliced up by GES expo services...

[VictorBravo]

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Rob and the other Camp Scholler attendees...

is it possible for me to UPS-ship some of my CAMPING gear (addressed to you) via the UPS location on the field, so I can pick it up and go CAMPING with you guys, because CAMPING gear is OK to ship via UPS... as opposed to those sneaky slimy sub-human diseased show vendors who have to go through the Teamsters Union and ship their sleazy crappy sub-human merchandise through other and far more expensive means...?

Or does someone else have a rented house or hotel room there in Oshkosh on Sunday 7-25 where I can send this stuff?

And I thought I was KIDDING with the Al Capone comments!

Bill

[CaptainJon]

Re: Oshkosh 2010

Bill:

What are your flight arrangements..... dates and airport? I will have space in the car and will be coming by Chicago and Milwaukee on the way to Oshkosh. I could donate my old Oshkosh tent and equipment too for your use if you like as I won't be needing them again.