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A Look at the Oshkosh Air Show
Aired August 01, 2003 - 15:50 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Ten percent of all aircraft in the United States are in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, this week for the world's largest air show. John and Martha King (ph), who have half much all pilots through their instructional videos, take us on a tour of the highlights of Oshkosh.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not one, but two consecutive hammerhead (ph) turnarounds.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is said to be the biggest convention of any sort in the world. There will be some 800,000 attendees here at Oshkosh and there 12 to 14,000 airplanes on the ground.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is pretty (ph)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oshkosh tower here.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But don't forget about the control tower. During this week, the control tower is the busiest tower -- this is the busiest airport in the world. They have 1, 00 operations an hour when they're really busy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In about 20 minutes we'll have 10 2-28s coming in from the east.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oshkosh got started on home belts, and it's one of those things that if you wanted to say that this was going to happen, no one would ever believe you because it was eight or 10 people getting together to talk about homebuilt aircraft.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But you built this?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I built it. I started it in 1980 and finished it in '89.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: '80 and '89. So it took you nine years to build this?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Yes, just one piece at a time.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Over here are the antique and classic aircraft coming up. These people have restored these aircraft and spent years and years of work getting them to this condition, and then they bring them to Oshkosh.
My favorite weird thing is the biplane with the jet engine. I love it.
What a magnificent way of flying.
Ultra lights give you the true joy of flying.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The airspeeds come up to 50 and then kind of hold our line (ph) at 50.
You can look out and down, right down on the fields and the homes, and you've got the wind there, and you can smell everything. You feel so close to nature, and yet you've got a beautiful perspective on the world.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS: And we want to thank our great Dave Santucci (ph) and Foray Dollar (ph) for putting that piece together for us.
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Aired August 1, 2003 - 15:50 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Ten percent of all aircraft in the United States are in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, this week for the world's largest air show. John and Martha King (ph), who have half much all pilots through their instructional videos, take us on a tour of the highlights of Oshkosh.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not one, but two consecutive hammerhead (ph) turnarounds.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is said to be the biggest convention of any sort in the world. There will be some 800,000 attendees here at Oshkosh and there 12 to 14,000 airplanes on the ground.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is pretty (ph)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oshkosh tower here.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But don't forget about the control tower. During this week, the control tower is the busiest tower -- this is the busiest airport in the world. They have 1, 00 operations an hour when they're really busy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In about 20 minutes we'll have 10 2-28s coming in from the east.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oshkosh got started on home belts, and it's one of those things that if you wanted to say that this was going to happen, no one would ever believe you because it was eight or 10 people getting together to talk about homebuilt aircraft.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But you built this?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I built it. I started it in 1980 and finished it in '89.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: '80 and '89. So it took you nine years to build this?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Yes, just one piece at a time.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Over here are the antique and classic aircraft coming up. These people have restored these aircraft and spent years and years of work getting them to this condition, and then they bring them to Oshkosh.
My favorite weird thing is the biplane with the jet engine. I love it.
What a magnificent way of flying.
Ultra lights give you the true joy of flying.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The airspeeds come up to 50 and then kind of hold our line (ph) at 50.
You can look out and down, right down on the fields and the homes, and you've got the wind there, and you can smell everything. You feel so close to nature, and yet you've got a beautiful perspective on the world.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS: And we want to thank our great Dave Santucci (ph) and Foray Dollar (ph) for putting that piece together for us.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
