The Homebuilt combined camping and parking totals are in from last night and we are a little ahead of the past two years. The planes parked in the two areas each evening after the field closed are counted and recorded. There were 452 Homebuilts last night, 20 more than the previous year. The trend of many with the options to come early, on Thursday or Friday, has continued to grow and generally favorable weather across the country, specifically in Oshkosh, has kept the flow of arrivals steady.
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Sportys offers cockpit accessories, Patterson Aerosales introduces a new engine from Italy, and the single-place Onex prototype from Sonex flies. Edited by Mary Bernard.
Remember When: The BD-5 Micro
The BD-5's reputation precedes it: long in development, company bankruptcy, investor losses, challenging to fly, early accidents. With an introduction like that, who would think this micro plane would be such a positively straightforward blast to fly?