The Airshow at Oshkosh in Wisonsin (North of Chicago near Lake Michigan) is the biggest air show in the world, and attracts around 12,000 aircraft flying in for a week of displays, ground events and activities. Plus many more arriving by road. Many of those flying in pitch tents and sleep under the aircraft.

Arriving aviators are talked down by some very skilled air traffic controllers using three sections of one of the long commercial runways, as if they are three separate runwways that just happen to be joined nose to tail, "Yellow Falco, keep coming down, land just past the green triangle". "White Cessna, a little higher, aim for the red triangle." Not a place for a student to fly into.

Definitely a 'must see' event at least once for any keen aviator.

But first to get the Falco there...

Not only do the pieces of Falco have to fit into the container, they also have to be easily extractable and able to be reassembled by George without outside assistance.

The firewall engine mounts bolt this section down onto the trolley,

Everything forward of the firewall (engine and front wheel gear on the engine frame) sit on this frame to be lifted with the engine crane that is also going along for the ride. The tail section behind is on a wooden tray to slide into the container, and is angled to clear the sides.

The major components