Oshkosh Show 1

John Morris

Gene Soucy has been performing air shows for 30 years. The skills of this three-time National Aerobatic Champion are apparent as he flies his Grumman ShowCat through a series of slow, gentlemanly and very loud aerobatics.

Gene Soucy has been performing air shows for 30 years. The skills of this three-time National Aerobatic Champion are apparent as he flies his Grumman ShowCat through a series of slow, gentlemanly and very loud aerobatics.

Gene Soucy has been performing air shows for 30 years. The skills of this three-time National Aerobatic Champion are apparent as he flies his Grumman ShowCat through a series of slow, gentlemanly and very loud aerobatics.

Gene Soucy has been performing air shows for 30 years. The skills of this three-time National Aerobatic Champion are apparent as he flies his Grumman ShowCat through a series of slow, gentlemanly and very loud aerobatics.

Gene Soucy has been performing air shows for 30 years. The skills of this three-time National Aerobatic Champion are apparent as he flies his Grumman ShowCat through a series of slow, gentlemanly and very loud aerobatics.

Gene Soucy has been performing air shows for 30 years. The skills of this three-time National Aerobatic Champion are apparent as he flies his Grumman ShowCat through a series of slow, gentlemanly and very loud aerobatics.

Sean Tucker puts his Oracle biplane through its paces at Oshkosh, with maneuvers that no other biplane can perform. Among his unique showpieces is a triple ribbon cut. He flies through the ribbons, which are only 25 feet off the ground, at 220 mph in right knife-edge for the first ribbon, then left knife-edge, and finally inverted.

Sean Tucker puts his Oracle biplane through its paces at Oshkosh, with maneuvers that no other biplane can perform. Among his unique showpieces is a triple ribbon cut. He flies through the ribbons, which are only 25 feet off the ground, at 220 mph in right knife-edge for the first ribbon, then left knife-edge, and finally inverted.

Sean Tucker puts his Oracle biplane through its paces at Oshkosh, with maneuvers that no other biplane can perform. Among his unique showpieces is a triple ribbon cut. He flies through the ribbons, which are only 25 feet off the ground, at 220 mph in right knife-edge for the first ribbon, then left knife-edge, and finally inverted.

Matt Younkin flies aerobatics in his Twin Beech 18, the only one in the world to do so.

All photos: Mo Spuhler

John Morris

John has led Aviation Week's ShowNews, the best-read daily news magazine of aerospace trade shows, for nearly two decades. His background in business journalism before joining Aviation Week includes stints at Reuters, the American Banker daily banking newspaper and as business news editor at the Milwaukee Journal and the Cincinnati Enquirer.

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