Thorp Air Command - T18.net

A few pics for you guys ... I'll write up a full report tomorrow, looks like I picked up something while I was up there, feeling pretty bad right now. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll be back in business, I DO have a newsletter write after all! [;)]

Not pictured is Bill Beswick's, Dave Magaw's airplane(s) and another elusive Thorp that was parked in the homebuilt camping area early in the week. All in all we had 16 Thorps this year. Not counting the Rutan designs we easily had all other custombuilts outnumbered!




Lee Walton



Bernie Fried



Bob Pernic



David Read



Jim Grahan



Fraser McPhee



Gary Green



Bob Highley



Bill Williams



Dave Gunderson



Jeff Ceason



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John Evens



Bob and Susan Highley N711SH Outstanding Workmanship Oshkosh 2011!



The Forum/Lunch was well attended ... just shy of 100 showed up.









Cubes and Frase scoring some autographs from the pin up girls.









N589LW in the homebuilt review, aircraft were ordered by speed. Behind the rocket and in front of the RV's ... just right!

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Lee Walton
Houston, TX
N51863,N118LW
KEFD

The last few pics...nothing more dangerous than a retired Air Force pilot with his wallet open (no money) and some guy from Utah with a Homer smile like he just got a date with the prom Queen ! [:p]

RB

Great job on the pics Lee !

Made it home to Denver in N71JE on Saturday... 5.7 hrs. going (avg. 6.9 gal/hr), & 5.9 coming back (avg 7.1 gal/hr). That's without wheel pants - still respectable. Made 2 stops in route both ways. Good times, except for a leaky new tent - my first time camping at OSH since 1977 - trying to get in shape for back-country airstrip flying in my Kitfox.

Congratulations to Bob Highley for an award well-deserved! What a beautiful airplane it is!

John Evens
N71JE

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John Evens
Arvada, Colorado
T-18 N71JE (sold)
Kitfox 7 SS N27JE

Got home last night after visiting folks in Chicago. My GPS shows a trips total of 2973nm in 21.54 hours for an average ground speed of 136kts. not bad for 7.4 gallons per hour. Still computing total cost. Not sure I want to know.

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Cubes
831GR
Las Vegas

Message to Bernie Freid

Check out this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/airventure ... 7311817514

There are a few more T-18 photos there of arrivals and departures.

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Fraser MacPhee
N926WM
Serial #279-1
Angel Fire, NM (KAXX)