Caption Contest #61 - A Winner Floats To The Top!

 We got a winner in the Caption Contest - and it wasn't even very close in the voting as this caption from 'Terence R' snagged 52% of your votes. Congrats on winning the first post OSH11 game!

 If I wasn't so backed up with my day-job, I was planning to have a post ready to put up from my recent trip to Charlotte North Carolina where the actual A320 dubbed Miracle on the Hudson is now on display at the Carolina's Aviation Museum. I got some good pix of the fuselage that I'll hopefully have up for you to check out before long. They're working on eventually getting the wings back on the aircraft to have it represent the condition it was in right after the Hudson river landing.

 It was very interesting to see the airplane for two reasons. First because the airplane represents a tremendous happy-ending story that really captured the nation's attention and joy. And secondly, it was a really great opportunity to see the wing structure and tail mounting structure of a commercial airliner up close and exposed. I've been around a lot of airliners in my day, but I've never had the chance to see the wing attach details (spars, skin & reinforcements, and systems components) out in the open where you can really see what's keeping everything all together. (the wings were sawn off the airplane revealing all the details just outside the root)

 Watch for more avgeek captioning to come your way soon : )