Milwaukee to Oshkosh · · PAGE 16.

July 24, 2019:  Let's CUT TO THE CHASE and get to the Airventure show center.  This is my first photo of the UPS 747 with FOUR of the latest General Electric turbofan engines also used on the Boeing 787.  

We left our hotel in the Milwaukee area at 8:45 Eastern Time this morning, with the last GPS waypoint in one of many Oshkosh parking lots at 10:30 AM Eastern Time.  We got on the bus and rode to the main entrance for tickets and began our "walk about" on the flight line and visited a few vendors, including Van's Aircraft and Cleaveland Tools.

Linda took this photo from the south side of the UPS 747-8 with the new engines that are similar to the ones used on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner parked behind this UPS air cargo aircraft.  With people up on the ramp to go inside, it puts the true size of this 747 in perspective.

Her second photo taken from the same spot on the ramp shows the left wing and most of the tail section.  N616UP is a Boeing 747-8F air freighter that was issued an air worthiness certificate on June 28, 2019 just 27 days before this picture was taken on July 24 here at Oshkosh.

That little black jet is a Northrop T-38 Talon supersonic jet trainer which appears to be privately-owned.  Their is a similar single-seat light-weight fighter from Northrop known as the F-5 that was made in several variants described in this Wikipedia article.

These two aerobatic aircraft performed in the daily air show.  They were parked on the grass just off the taxiway to the two Boeing aircraft seen above and in the photo below this one.

Linda took this photo showing the Boeing 787 parked behind the UPS 747-8.

Linda quickly discovered being in the shadow of a large airplane is one way to beat the heat of the sun.  She is wearing her favorite WHITE HAT.  My black folding baggage cart came in handy for our water jugs with ice, camera bag, and other new stuff we collected today.

This particular Boeing 787-8 has been in service since December 2012.  These engines are also the GENX series from General Electric.  You can learn more about the GENX engines via this online web article.  The article mentions the difference between the engines on the 747-8 and the 787.

I wanted to be close enough to get details of the N-number and the engine nacelles.  That is why I have the front of the airplane in the photo above and the rear in the photo below.

Here is my front snapshot view of the 787.

This Lockheed C-130 is the current version of the series that first went into service in 1956.  The propellers have EIGHT blades with the efficient scimitar shape.  The earlier versions of the C-130 aircraft have four-blade propellers.

This year is the 50th year this show has been in Oshkosh.  You may notice I am wearing a long-sleeve shirt to be sure I do not get sunburned arms.  It is a very light-weave material that is actually quite comfortable to wear.

Show center is dominated by newer JET aircraft and the latest C-130 turboprop cargo version.  Just a few feet away on the south side of the ramp sits this four-engine piston-powered Boeing B-17 that is still flying. It was built near the end of World War II.  The complete history of this airplane and its restoration to become "Yankee Lady" is found via this Wikipedia Article.

The tail gunner position is shown in this close-up photo taken by Linda.

It is fitting this B-17 is the last photo taken before our Oshkosh Airventure visit was completed.  We had to walk back to the main entrance just west of the show center ramp.  We got on a bus to take us back to the parking lot where our car was parked.  We were back in the car at 5:28 PM Eastern Time from the first GPS waypoint time stamp.  The first stop as we were leaving town was to fill up with fuel less than two miles north of the OSH airport.  This Google Earth image is from September 2017.

Dinner was next on the agenda as we headed north on US 41 where we found this Applebee's Restaurant at Neenah, Wisconsin about 18 miles north of the Oshkosh Airport.  It was 6:22 PM Eastern Time when we arrived here, putting us one hour ahead of most folks coming for dinner.  We were back in the car by 7:49 PM and on US 41 going north a few minutes later.