Seeing static planes in a museum is all well and good, but the great thing about the Oshkosh EAA Air Show is that everything here FLIES, and there are constant flightline demonstrations all afternoon. Some photos.
For one week a year, Oshkosh is the world’s busiest airport.
B-17 Flying Fortress
A-4 Skyhawk
Aerobatic team of Canadian Harvard trainers
Ford Trimotor, taking paying passengers for a spin
Aerobatics show
Seaplane
US Forest Service tanker plane, for fighting forest fires
Aerobatics
A large flight of military trainers
B-29 “Fifi”, the only remaining airworthy Superfortress
C-5 Galaxy
Russian L-39 trainer
A flight of jet trainers
“Japanese Zero”, actually an AT-6 painted in Japanese livery
Autogyro
A trio of Russian and American jets
Yak-52’s
A-10 Warthog
P-51 Mustang
A-1 Skyraider
Yak-9
B-25 Mitchell