Ohkosh 2024

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Scott, Marilyn, Stephanie, Allison

Attention Kids:  Get your first ride in an airplane FREE. call Scott Olson at (515) 620-9585

I am a volunteer Young Eagle (YE) Pilot and have worked for several YE Chairmen over the years including famous aviators such as Cliff Robertson,  General Chuck Yeager, Harrison Ford and Sully Sullenberger who in 2009 safely crash landed US AIRWAYS Flight 1549 in the Hudson River.  I am YE Pilot #04 out of 40,000 Young Eagle Pilots.  

My first Young Eagle is a commercial pilot

I started flying Young Eagles almost 30 years ago.  Technically I am the 2nd EAA member to fly Young Eagles.  YE Pilot #01 always belongs to the YE Chairman; YE Pilot #02 belongs to Tom Poberezny, EAA President and one other EAA member is YE Pilot #03.  Two Million Young Eagles have been flown in the last 25 years.  This is the most amazing and successful Youth program ever undertaken and kudos go to the 40,000 EAA Pilots and 1000 EAA Chapters who made it happen.  

 

My first Young Eagle kid became a pilot with a Helicopter rating and Airline Transport rating.  I had a big impact on him.  I was told he had my YE photo on his dresser until adulthood.  This Young Eagle could have learned to fly like an Eagle and Angel.  I missed an opportunity to make a Disciple of Christ through our EAA Network of Volunteer Pilots and Ground Volunteers.  Perhaps next flights could include a prayer for a safe, inspirational and fun flight.  It would be most valuable to bring a kid to Jesus Christ and to Aviation. It would be a gift to a kid that just keeps on giving. 

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Welcome to the EAA Young Eagles Registration website giving youth ages 8-17 their first free ride in an airplane

Welcome to the EAA Young Eagles Rstration website giving youth ages 8-17 their fir

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1st International Drone Community Event in USA

1. I was the Team Leader in Iowa (Each state has a team leader) for International Drone Community (IDC) and I organized the First ever International Drone Community Event that took place 2016 in Cambridge, IA during Skunk River Valley Days.  I held the drone event primarily for local farmers.

  

DroneSharks was created to produce the International Drone Community Event.  Several farmers, Drone Vendors showed up and local and regional Ag Media and the Secretary of Agriculture, Bill Northey.  One drone was sold to a local farmer under the table.  At the time FAA would not allow farmers flying drones without a license.

1st International Drone Community Event held in Central Iowa

First Airplane Ride

1947 Taylorcraft

My very first airplane ride at 5 years old was in a 1947 Taylorcraft which belonged to my Grampa Freiman.  We were at a family reuinon at his sons farm (my uncle Tom) in Jordan, MN.  There was no flat grass runway or straight enough road to take off and land.  The farm was hilly with bolders.  What did I know?  I was five.  We started to take off up a hill then down a hill.  It was a 15 minute flight.  Landing was on the side of the up and down hills because some grazing cows moved to the flat take off area.  I have never had a problem finding a landing area when taking a check ride and the instructor surprisingly pulls power and says "Where you going to land?"  I learned I can land anywhere as long as there isn't anything bigger than the airplane to hit.  When I purchased an Ercoupe I would land on farm fields as part of my personal training and almost always landed on every grass airstrip I could find.

My Dad re-painted Grandpas Taylorcraft green at Lake Elmo 21D airport

  Taylorcraft on skis      

                                            

Online Barnstormer blog is named after the 2018 Lindy Award Winner Vintage Lincoln Page.

Grampa was a real Barnstormer so I am the Online Barnstormer

There was no FAA or aviation certificates available when the Lincoln Page was made and sold to Grandpa.  My Grandpa went out and bought it and taught himself to fly like I did with my hang gliders.  Below is a photo of my Grandpas 1920 Lincoln Page.  He, Arnold and his brother Rubin purchased the Lincoln Page in 1929 for $3000 or $1500 each from Holman Field in St. Paul, MN.  It had the infamous Hamilton OX-5 12 cylinder engine.  The side of the airplane has "Frieman Bros." painted on the Fuselage.  Yes this really is my Grandpas Airplane.   I showed this picture to an aviation historian and he thought picture was fake but I authenticated it with photos and his name painted on the side.

Incidently Al and Rubin pictured in their 1920 Lincoln Page were good friends with Charles Willis "Speed" Holman who was an American stunt pilot, barnstormer, wing walker, parachutist, airmail pilot, record holding aviator, and airline pilot. Born in Bloomington, Minnesota, he was the first pilot hired by Northwest Airways now Delta Airlines in 1926.

Oshkosh 2018 Lindy Grand Champion Award Winner.

I am the Online Barnstormer, a third generation pilot, aviation enthusiast and barnstormer pictured below.

A barnstormer flight in home made standard Ragollo hang glider in 1973 at South St. Paul gravel pit.

Below a flight in my fixed wing powered Icarus V hanglider 1974.  Both aircraft I scratch built and flew with no training of any kind.  There were no hangliding licenses or certificates available at the time.  Just started out on a small hill then learn to fly with trial and error.

Notice me hanging by my arms.  I am barely strong enough to hang on to the hang cage.  Taurus Kicenuik, the inventor of the Icarus V is pictured in back on the left with the red helmet.  There were 7 powered hang gliders at the very first powered hanglider meet in the early 70's in held Michigan.  The pilots and spectators were from all over the country and each had various levels of experience.  There was journalist that came over from Greece to photograph the event because he was interested in introducing the sport to Greece.  He asked me to come to Greece and build Powered hangliders. 

Notice the flags.  The winds were 25 MPH at mid afternoon.  No-one should have been flying that day.  But who knew?  It was the first powered hanglider meet and there were no trees from a cliff to run into.  I had a "kill switch" in my mouth for my throttle.  I designed a motor mount for a MAC 101 (10 HP) gocart engine and straight drive 24" propellor.   Boy did that propellor RPM scream!  I wanted to abort the windy flight.  I wasn't in control, but my "kill switch" had shorted out and the engine wouldn't quit.  A video will be shown of the flight (coming soon).  It's a barnstormer!

I couldn't STOP the motor and I was approaching a crowd of spectators.  I was afraid to fly over them.  I thought if I got too high I wouldn't be able to turn around.  I thought I would end up down wind at 50MPH or faster.   I might not have the strength or skill to turn back upwind to the landing area and I couldn't stop the motor!  I knew I would crash.  So in the photo you see me hanging at take off.  I was probably ten feet hight and 50 yards from take off.  I bailed from the hang cage with the motor running.  I dropped to the ground and tumbled a little.  The IcarusV flew straight up full power and did a perfect loop and landed THUMPED right in front of me.  The crowd thought it was part of an act like an airshow and applauded with an uproar while the home builders and pilots were probably drying off or wiping out their pants.  Most of the other pilots were senior to me in experience and half of them were the inventors of these powered hangliders there to promote the sport.

I have flown into Oshkosh 30 times and camped with my plane. It is the greatest airventure of its kind

10,000 airplanes

Oshkosh Arrival scary the first time flying in

This Ercoupe won three BEST IN TYPE Awards at Oshkosh

My 1946 Oshkosh Award winning Ercoupe 2701H

2002 Glass Goose Amphibian built by Tom Olson

Dad's airplane that didn't make it to Oshkosh

Airplane Toyboxes from TJs Flying Circus

The Original Airplane Toy Box

Airplane Toy boxes were created because I didn't have time to build a peddle plane for my 5 year old sons birthday.  The peddle planes you see at EAA are fantastic and the plans are very detailed.  The plans are overwhelming and my Dad (Grandpa Olson) and I only had a couple weeks to build an airplane for my son TJ birthday.  The peddle plane looked like the same amount of time to build as my  ultralight. which took a year.  We bought a piece of plywood on Saturday, a sixpack of beer and created plans on a napkin to create the first airplane toybox.  It took a weekend to build and a weekend to paint.

Click Here for all the airplane toybox models.  What I am most proud of is that Paul Poberezny posed with his P51 airplane toy box in his basement with two thumbs up.  KidVenture also has a couple Christian Eagles toy boxes at Oshkosh and the EAA Chapter house usually has theirs out on the deck for kids to play in.  You can paint or body wrap toy boxes.  You can build your own Airplane Toybox out of a sheet of plywood using detailed plans for $20 (call 515-620-9585) or build it with free plans 

Favorite Airplane Toy Box - Founders plane

Chapter House Airplane ToyBox donted to EAA

Peoples Choice airplane toy box

Heaven is like camping at Ohkosh

What Heaven will be like

I remember every tent I ever slept in. My Dad and I went fishing in 1960's near Alexandria, MN and slept in a green army surplus type tent which had a musty smell of oiled canvas which ment high adventure to me.  I have the first tent I bought myself in the 1970s for Oshkosh I've used it 30 times at Oshkosh.   I flew into Oshkosh and slept under the wing of the Ercoupe at least 30 times with different friends and family.  Pictured here is my beautiful wife Marilyn and youngest son, TJ.   I can't bear to let the memories in the orange pup-tent with broken poles go.

I love waking up to revele at 7AM each morning at Oshkosh, now AirVenture.  It is a magical sense of adventure that comes naturally to any young boy and me.  There is nothing like stepping out of your tent and discovering a whole new world of aviaton.  This is why people vacation in beautiful places like Oshkosh.  It holds the secret to the stories you love.  No politics or fake news, just the sounds and smell of airplanes and visiting with people sharing the fruits of the spirit.  This is what heaven is going to be like landing at and stepping into a whole new fairy-tale world. Yes, I believe there will be an airport in heaven there for your tin mistress.  You won't need a hangar.  Airplanes will all be lined up for everyone to see and go "Ooh, Ah, Wow.  Can you imagine taking Jesus flying in your award winning airplane?

Lake Elmo 21D Hangar

My Icarus V was scratch built in early 1970's. It was day and night working on the project for probably a year.  I flew hanglider once off a long sloping hill in McKnight Park across the I 94 freeway from 3M Corporation.  I added en engine and took off from the Lake Elmo airport crashed it.   I rebuilt and recovered it with a new paint scheme you see here hanging on wall.  I have a broad based interest in aviation.  As you can see in the photo there are R/C airplanes hanging up.  My first R/C,  a 1930s Trixter Beam and smaller balsa model I built from a kit.  My Tin Mistress, a 1946 Ercoupe has the 65HP Continental engine off for painting and also allowing me to polish the firewall.  That's tedious work but worth it making it an award winner Ercoupe at Oshkosh and other National Airshows.

The two Icarus V wings are hanging up on back wall (looks like art) with a second new paint design after recovering from the last crash.   Lot's of painting; lot's of newspaper and tape and personal touch.  A new gold hang cage can be seen lower left behind the propane heater awaiting assembly for future weekend powered hanglider flight.  With all you see in this picture - where is the time to fly?   It's too cold to fly and it looks like there is snow on the ground.  My Dad will be back soon from flying one of his Beechcraft Bananzas.  I'll open the frig. have a beer and think about where to focus my interest in this hobby.  I am too old and fat to foot launch the Icarus V so my 2020 project is to make the IcarusV into a Drone Ultralight with the capability to lift vertically, hover and fly.

 

Flying R/C models since early 1960's, Hangliding started in 1972 and bought Ercoupe in 1974

Icarus V VTOL Drone Drawing #1

Using R/C Technology at first for proof of concept.  First test flights will be at local AMA sanctioned model airplane field using RC propulsion system from a EFlite XVert VTOL electronics.

Electric motors with two large propellors wil be fixed on a one inch aluminum tube with wires going back to ESC, Reciever and LIPO bat(s) for propulsion.  It is very easy integrate and experiment.  The is no need for moving the motors to control Ultralight.  VTOLs ob youtube will rotate the motors from take off to flying for high speeds.  This aircraft only flys at 20MPH-25MPH and motors will only be used when I'm in it to gain altitude.  Then I will glide down to land and use Motors to slow to land vertically so I won't have to run 18 MPH to land.  I will land like a Helicopter or Quadcopter/Drone.


 I visited John Moody in Milwakee and copied ideas from his Powered Icarus II and created a motor mount for a MAC 101 GoCart engine with a straight drive 24" propeller making my Icarus V a foot launched hang glider or Foot Launched Ultralight,predacessor the the Vintage Ultralights and Modern Day Microlights.  Note: I started flying R/C models in 1964. 

Icarus V Foot Launched Hang Glider

HANG GLIDERS - 1974

First saw Icarus V hang glider in Popular Science 1974

Icarus II Designed by Taurus Kiceniuk

Icarus II migrated into the EasyRiser by Larry Mauro and John Moody made it famous at Oshkosh.

Below is a picture of my Icarus V in the early 1970s.  I pulled my 1946 Ercoupe out of the hangar to build the Icarus V by scratch from plans I bought from Tarus Kiceniuk.  I was interested in very low and slow flight to re-live some of the feelings I read about from the Wright Brothers.  I read and re-read an article in 1974 Popular Science Magazine on fixed wing hang gliders and decided to build Icarus V hang glider which at the time was state of the art.  It resembles its predecessor the Icarus II, what most people know as the Easy Riser.  Pilot controls pitch by shifting body weight on parallel bars. Lateral control is actuated by twist grips. 

Photo 1 Construction of airframe. Photo 2 is completed aircraft with original paint scheme at 1st Powered Hanglider Meet in Marilla, MI.. These powered hangliders were not yet called ultralights because anybody could fly them without a licence.  If you look very close I did have an FAA N number (N93675) on the wing tips and for the hell of it I put the word EXPERIMENTAL since I've been an EAA member since 1974.

Photo of my MAC 101 GoCart engine and 24" wooden propellor.  Notice  propulsion was full speed or no speed using a kill switch in my mouth.This photo was taken in the 1970s when very few of us had a motorized hangliders.  I met with John Moody after Oshkosh in his basement and we drew up plans for my MAC101 engine mount on a napkin. 

More History

Boris Popov started out selling standard Rogallo and Easy Riser hangliders and sold me my standard 18' rogallo hanglider in 1972 and eventually he had a hangar the for powered ultralights that had seats for comfort and and wheels for take off and landings, mostly Quick Silvers a few miles from my airport in Lake Elmo 21D which was the dawn of the modern day Ultralight in the midwest.

Dreaming About Flying

I grew up playing on swing sets and jumping off as far as I could at the playground.  Growing up as long as I remember I had a dreams of swinging on a swing set and jumping off a cliff hundreds of feet high.  I would jump off the swing and fly through the air and I always woke up before I hit the ground.  In 1972 I purchased a Standard Wing Jobe Hanglider and jumped off a Mississippi River Bluff across from the Schmidt Brewery in St. Paul, MN.   That ended my childhood flying dreams.  Here is a link to some of my flying interests.  http://scottolson.name/bio/flyi.html

Flying in a dream

Now I'm really flying the Icarus V

I'm really flying my home built Hang Glider

Almost flying in 1st Ercoupe 3469H

2nd Ercoupe 2701H ready to fly

Learn to fly in original 1946 Ercoupe 415C

I am EAA # 99884 and YE Pilot#04.  I was involved in EAA Chapter 54 in Lake Elmo 21D including starting a Private Pilots course and I started EAA Chapter 1452 years later in Ames, IA.  I have flown into Oshkosh over 30 times and camped under the wing of my Ercoupe wings or my Dads 1947 Classic Beechcraft Bonanza.  And I've stayed in the Oshkosh University Dorms.  I have won 3 awards at Oshkosh for Best-in-class aircraft and my Ercoupe won First Place & Peoples Choice at the National Ercoupe Convention in Ames, IA. Here is an Ercoupe Operators Manual and are photos of Ercoupes

Ercoupe 2701H and favorite Ercoupes

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Drones will cover Google Earth

Drones will cover Google Earth.  I created a blog for farmers in the Midwest and raised interest in drones for Agriculture.  I have been spending most of my time flying indoor Quadcopters and entertaining elderly and choreographing to patriotic music.  I have safety as first priority so when I loose control no one will get hurt.  It is what I call "Make America Great Again Airshow"  Entertainment include Gods Blessing, National Anthem, free give-aways. Typically last one hour and can be held in a dining room or theater.

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Drones with cameras will provide the BIG PICTURE

Indoor Aishow and Presentation

Indoor Nursing Home Airshows