June 2Jun 2 Author You KNOW I'll be there. Actually, we are bringing The Deuce (and a Black Talon). She arrives Monday, leaves Monday. https://www.eaa.org/airventure/eaa-airventure-news-and-multimedia/eaa-airventure-news/2025-04-10-us-air-force-to-bring-iconic-u-2-dragon-lady-to-airventure-2025 Unless Congress changes it, the U-2 is done "operationally" in 121 days. Oshkosh will be the last time in public... unless things change. We shall see. Edited June 2Jun 2 by HuggyU2
June 2Jun 2 Yeah, I saw you guys got the primo Boeing plaza parking! Not too far from us. I’ll definitely be over.
June 5Jun 5 Those going to Oshkosh planeless stop off in Minneapolis, pick up my RV-8 and fly there in style. I'll even throw in a full tank of 100LL with the sale.
June 17Jun 17 The CAF B-29 will be there again. We're going to be on the Plaza Mon-Wed like last year, and flying in the evening show on Wednesday with Doc again. Even though I'm the Squadron scheduler, right now I'm not on the board to fly the show. Trying to spread the love since I was in last year.
June 18Jun 18 19 hours ago, HuggyU2 said: Hacker, are you at least coning to the event? As of right now, I'm going to be flying the ride flights out of Appleton Thurs through Sunday. Hopefully I'll be there early in the week just working the crowd for the static display on the plaza. Beers at SOS Bros on me this year. 🙂
June 22Jun 22 On 6/5/2025 at 10:13 AM, Springer said: Those going to Oshkosh planeless stop off in Minneapolis, pick up my RV-8 and fly there in style. I'll even throw in a full tank of 100LL with the sale. Sold
July 13Jul 13 Hacker, will you guys still make it? Saw you’re missing out on some Ohio stops for post-mx stuff?
July 17Jul 17 On 7/12/2025 at 8:21 PM, Clayton Bigsby said: Hacker, will you guys still make it? Saw you’re missing out on some Ohio stops for post-mx stuff? We are still sorting out some mx squawks that are grounding even as of today. Full thrash mode. Still planning right now on making it for static on the Plaza starting Monday and flying the show on Wed night.
July 17Jul 17 Author Great! We will be on the south end of Boeing Plaza with you. The Deuce now arrives Sunday ~1230, after a drop in to the Milwaukee Airshow. The guy flying it is from Fond du Lac.
July 23Jul 23 On 7/17/2025 at 6:31 PM, HuggyU2 said: Great! We will be on the south end of Boeing Plaza with you. The Deuce now arrives Sunday ~1230, after a drop in to the Milwaukee Airshow. The guy flying it is from Fond du Lac. Met Huggy for the first time at Oshkosh today. Here he is enthusiastically holding court and patiently answering all questions from the audience in the dreadful heat. Came back an hour later and was still at it. Great rep for the retiring U-2 program. Edited July 23Jul 23 by Springer
July 24Jul 24 I see the gofundme for his sunglasses failed, but at least there’s a hat this time. Small wins. Edited July 24Jul 24 by brabus
July 25Jul 25 Looks like you made it Hacker. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EaxYvAYCv/?mibextid=wwXIfr
July 26Jul 26 21 hours ago, bfargin said: Looks like you made it Hacker. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EaxYvAYCv/?mibextid=wwXIfr Awesome!!!
July 27Jul 27 On 7/25/2025 at 1:37 PM, bfargin said: Looks like you made it Hacker. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EaxYvAYCv/?mibextid=wwXIfr That sound
July 28Jul 28 On 7/26/2025 at 6:36 PM, Clayton Bigsby said: He did! I met him! great to see you, and Huggy too! hacker is the fucking man i am on record many times saying this....glad you met him!
July 29Jul 29 On 7/26/2025 at 4:36 PM, Clayton Bigsby said: He did! I met him! great to see you, and Huggy too! Do you have our pic? My most exciting part of the week was the 3-engine Fifi landing on Saturday. Fortunately it is minor and she'll be back on the road this week. Edited July 29Jul 29 by Hacker
August 1Aug 1 On 7/28/2025 at 8:13 PM, Hacker said: Do you have our pic? My most exciting part of the week was the 3-engine Fifi landing on Saturday. Fortunately it is minor and she'll be back on the road this week. Indeed! Sorry, been back at the grind. An exhausting week followed by jumping right back to working traffic.
August 1Aug 1 Man it does not like our pic, for some reason it gives me this error each time I try to upload it
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