First, Moondance, all I can say is Kid Rock...rocks! Heart and Don Felder weren't bad either. Never new Heart had so many hits, I recognized everyone of them.
After a brewery tour trip down to Oshkosh, which saw us at the Leinenkugel Brewery in Chippewa Falls and then the Point Brewery in Steven Point, we were at Oshkosh for two day OD'ing on aviation.
Spent a bit of time looking at the Beech Staggerwings, which is my favorite vintage plane. They still look sleek 80 years after they started building them.
Also stopped in to listen to a couple of talks in the Forum Area; one on the retrieval of the P-38 from under the ice in Greenland...yes I saw the show on the Discovery Channel, but hearing about it, in person, adds much more depth (pun intended) to the adventure, then Dick Rutan (Burt's brother) talked about a number of his "oh, shit" moments, e.g. taking off in the Voyager for the round the world record, dropping a plane through the ice at the North Pole and attempting to balloon around the world. Great stories and it is nice to know that even a big time test pilots sometimes has oops moments.
Also had a chance to look up close at the new Ford GT super-car. It's a cool car, but if I wanted to show off the engine compartment, as that seem to want to with its transparent covers, I sure would have spent a little time and a couple more bucks making it look good. Enzo Ferrari always required that tubing, wiring and piping be hidden from view in his super-cars. Squeeze clips, black hoses have no place in a $150K car.
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