Airventure 2025 | Day 6

July 21 | Monday is my errand day. I started the day with breakfast at the Tall Pines Café, run by the Vintage Aircraft Association.

The first breakfast always seems to be biscuits and gravy, with eggs, sausage, OJ and coffee. I usually have more biscuits and gravy this week than I have all year.

Next, it was off to register for Vintage volunteering at the Red Barn. I usually volunteer on the flight line parking and marshaling incoming and departing airplanes. This year, I stopped in at the Vintage youth education center next to the Red Barn Vintage headquarters to see about volunteering there. I got all the information I needed from Sue, so planned to return the next day.

Next was flight line training from 1 to 2, then back to the Aeromart to put a few more parts in. Before that was a stop by the Aerox booth to drop off my oxygen tank for renewal, then the Cessna Owners booth to renew my subscription. My last stop was the EAA Wearhouse to buy t-shirts for all six great-grandkids. It was a very efficient day.

Tim and Sindy texted and we were able to get together for supper. Since both they and I had flown in, we were at the airport without a car. I had only used Uber once recently, but the three of us got the transportation arranged on our smart phones and had dinner at a nice restaurant that Tim and Sindy know downtown Oshkosh.

After leaving them in the Friar Tuck’s parking lot on the North 40, I Ubered down to gate 21 in the South 40, feeling very sophisticated, being able to order an Uber, took a shower and went to bed.

I’m writing this Thursday afternoon, always late with my homework, of course. The afternoon airshow is going on, with a T-33 beating up the air directly above me. This is after the A-10 Warthogs put on an amazing demonstration, after the F-86s before them. It is constant from 2:30 until 5 every afternoon. That’s not counting the night airshows Wednesday and Saturday. Now a Me-262 World War II jet fighter is making passes down the runway and into the sky. Only at Oshkosh.