Thanks Rev, glad you enjoyed the show. Here's what they're telling us Sunday morning.
Oshkosh, Wis. (WBAY) A massive firefighting seaplane that was supposed to fly over Oshkosh Saturday was damaged Friday night and will not make its scheduled flight.
Dubbed “the world’s largest water bomber,” EAA AirVenture officials tell Action 2 News that the Hawaii Martin Mars had taken off fully loaded when an engine light came on, prompting them to land unexpectedly in Lake Winnebago.
Action 2 News has learned that the pilots did not realize the “shallow depths of the water” and the plane—which weighed 160,000 pounds—hit an object on the bottom of the lake. When engineers went to check on the engine, they saw a basketball-sized hole taking in water.
The Oshkosh Fire Department helped assist with pumps that were used to get the water out of the plane. The leak has been fixed and tours will continue.
So, all's well that ends well. It's been a crazy-busy week for those of us working at E.A.A. "like a one-legged man in a Butt Kicking Contest" I haven't had the opportunity to take in much myself but I did manage a couple of pictures of war birds on Saturday.
The first is a German fighter, the ME 109. Rare because we shot most of them down and then bombed the factories that built them.
The second is a very nice P 38.
And the third is a Seaplane model of which I'm not familiar. In the foreground is an Army Staff car built by Ford in 1942.
That's all I've got for you today. One more day at AirVenture in Oshkosh and then I'm off for vacation in Door County. I might sleep for a week straight...
Gary
