Are you having problems getting carbon fiber?  I hear it is rare and expensive because Boeing has bought so much for their new 787s (I think).  Hey, that's the game.  The homebuilders live off the droppings of the military-industrial complex.  Lot of premium material and expertise is available.  The guy conducting our seminar on carbon fiber was from Kansas with Boeing and Beech experience.

Haven't been to Oshkosh since 2001.  I have been four times--1978, 1985, 1996.  The closest I came to building an airplane was after watching Dick Rutan fly a Long-Eze through an aerobatic pattern.

I am getting a bit old for this.  The flight line from the warbirds to the ultralights is about 6 km and there are several thousand perfect airplanes you just have to look at carefully in between.  Wears me out!  And lately, it has been very hot.  Not only is 7 hours in 37° heat a bit much, but such hot air screws up the low-level acrobatics.  But I am certain I will go again.  We'll see.

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"

I found some Oshkosh footage I shot in 2000. (NOT 2001)  I was trying to teach a friend video editing and I had the footage on the computer.

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"