I attended the 2003 Fly-in to celebrate 100th year of the Wright's
1st flight and their invention of the airplane...
I took a turn to tame the tricky 1903 Wright Flyer sim... I got it up
with out stalling and then threaded my way through all the obstacles
and finally ran out of gas over the ocean... whew it was intense!!!
I met up with my friend Jim Wright builder of the H1 replica that
proved to be so close to the original that the FAA granted him serial
#2... Jim was concerned about the degree of hail damage on the leading
edges of his wood wings... tragically on a the return flight from
Oshkosh 2003 Jim crashed and die destroying the H1 which took over
5000 hours of labor to complete... doubly sad for me because it would
have been featured in a Howard Hughes movie... however the original H1
serial #1 is still safe in the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum Washington...
Bud Anderson signed my log book and my hat... Bud lives 20 miles away
in Placerville...
Andy's Chipmunk...
1903 Wright Flyer Sim
Jim Wright
Hail Damaged Leading Edge...
Honda was a major sponsor so naturally they displayed Rossi's V5 MotoGp racer but with no security...
Bud Anderson...