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Jul 29th, 2012 at 12:48am

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One of the many beautiful vintage tail dragger Cessna's at Oshkosh, lots of wonderful radial ones but the darn things kept flying so I could get some good close up shots  Grin

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I was not the only drooling over this honey!
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Pardon the scrawny kid in the reflection shot  Grin

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Reply #1 - Jul 29th, 2012 at 8:23am

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Wonderful set Adam...well done... Wink
 

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Reply #2 - Jul 29th, 2012 at 10:26am

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Wow! Wonderful shots, What a beautiful plane. Well done.
 

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Reply #3 - Jul 29th, 2012 at 10:28am

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We have a C180 that looks just like the... except it's a 51' 180 and doesn't have the fairings.

 

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Reply #4 - Jul 29th, 2012 at 12:35pm

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BlackAce wrote on Jul 29th, 2012 at 10:28am:
We have a C180 that looks just like the... except it's a 51' 180 and doesn't have the fairings.



Could you post some pictures of it?

Thanks for all the feed back folks! Believe it or not I found a Swift behind this Cessna that was even MORE shiny!  Cool
 

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Reply #5 - Jul 29th, 2012 at 3:40pm

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That one was nice. Wink  I think the shiniest plane at Oshkosh was the T-6 that did a display on Thursday.
 

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Reply #6 - Jul 29th, 2012 at 3:56pm

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Jayhawk Jake wrote on Jul 29th, 2012 at 3:40pm:
That one was nice. Wink  I think the shiniest plane at Oshkosh was the T-6 that did a display on Thursday.

I flew back home on Wednesday so I missed it.
 

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