Oshkosh Nonstop Photos

[laminar]

Hey Guys,

We just posted some pictures on the Wasabi website from the record attempt from Mojave nonstop to Oshkosh.

Wasabi Oshkosh Post

A big thank you to our friends and sponsors for the support.

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Thanks,
Elliot and Jenn

[Desertdawg]

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Thanks for sharing your adventure with us. The aerial shoots are fantastic, you guys must still be all smiles.

Oshkosh is on my bucket list.

[Lockheed Bob]

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Congrats & great photos. How did the relief tube work?

[laminar]

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Thanks for sharing your adventure with us. The aerial shoots are fantastic, you guys must still be all smiles.

Oshkosh is on my bucket list.

Thank you Desertdawg! It was a lot of fun!

[laminar]

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Congrats & great photos. How did the relief tube work?

Actually better than expected, which is good because the nerves wouldn't let me sleep much the night before so leaned on the caffeine pretty hard to make the trip.

I ended up being the only airplane with a relief tube, the other planes used the disposable piddle packs or lemon jelly donuts. The problem with those being you need to minimize the number of times you go, so you end up holding it as long as you can. The result was the running joke was I was tagging all the states like a christmas puppy.

Oh well it was nice to have one creature comfort.

Thank you for asking.

Elliot

[AAFO_WSagar]

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She looks better than fasssst Elliot! Thanks for sharing here.. looking forward to seeing you on the sticks next month... (actually, that sounds scary... I don't even have my room yet......)

[supercub]

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So how did the trip go????

[glider90]

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The arrival of you guys Monday was one of the cooler sights of the week, knowing what you were attempting to get there. It was cool to see you arrive and count out the planes as they did a tail chase arrival. The high speed pass and pull up with the Siren looked really good!
The Wasabi Siren tent talk was also very well presented. I still wonder how you repaid the Thunderbirds for their special guest appearance...

[laminar]

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She looks better than fasssst Elliot! Thanks for sharing here.. looking forward to seeing you on the sticks next month... (actually, that sounds scary... I don't even have my room yet......)

Wayne, well spoke. Jenn and I are trying to figure out how we can be ready to move the airplane again in a few short weeks. Thanks for the compliment on the airplane and thanks for giving us a place to talk about the airplane!!!

[laminar]

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So how did the trip go????

Supercub,

The trip went great! The tightest spot was initially after takeoff. There was clouds and rain from Mojave to Vegas which was the first time I had flown the racer in the rain. That combined with some of the airplanes taking on ice, was pretty aggressive for a little homebuilt like mine. But after that it was really fantastic. A five knot tailwind and not even any turbulence.

Thanks for asking!!

Elliot

[laminar]

Re: Oshkosh Nonstop Photos

The arrival of you guys Monday was one of the cooler sights of the week, knowing what you were attempting to get there. It was cool to see you arrive and count out the planes as they did a tail chase arrival. The high speed pass and pull up with the Siren looked really good!
The Wasabi Siren tent talk was also very well presented. I still wonder how you repaid the Thunderbirds for their special guest appearance...

Glider90,

Thank you for that comment about our arrival. Flying the little airplane that Jenn and I built over Oshkosh would have been cool enough, but a hot pass inside the TFR with Kyle Franklin on the line warming up in his Dracula, oh be still my heart. What a day!!

Also thank you for attending our Siren talk. It was a strange experience to share so much about our little airplane so publicly and I am glad you dug it. Hopefully people walked away thinking, "I can do that!", so we can all see more cool airplanes around.

Thanks again for the comments.

Elliot

[FlyKidChris]

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Also thank you for attending our Siren talk. It was a strange experience to share so much about our little airplane so publicly and I am glad you dug it. Hopefully people walked away thinking, "I can do that!", so we can all see more cool airplanes around.
Elliot

Any chance you've video of that talk? I'd love to see it.

Oshkosh is a bucket list thing for me. Due to the closeness of Reno and Oshkosh, I've always been forced to chose one or the other (RENO has been the winner each time).

I do hope that someone has video and that it will posted soon.

Good luck in Reno, Elliot.

[laminar]

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Any chance you've video of that talk? I'd love to see it.

Oshkosh is a bucket list thing for me. Due to the closeness of Reno and Oshkosh, I've always been forced to chose one or the other (RENO has been the winner each time).

I do hope that someone has video and that it will posted soon.

Good luck in Reno, Elliot.

FlyKidChris,

Thank you for your enthusiasm.

I understand about not being able to do both. Growing up my dad would only let me do Oshkosh, because Reno was during the school year.

We did not video the talk at Oshkosh. There has been some talk of doing the pitch again at Scaled, and usually we video tape those. It probably won't happen before Reno but there is a chance.

Thanks again!

Elliot

[mayday51]

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....come on...give it up...

......how many times was the releif tube used??????

[laminar]

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....come on...give it up...

......how many times was the releif tube used??????

14 times, every airplane should have one of those things.