AirVenture

A Merlin engine goes to full power,the shattering sound crackling across the aircraft camping area at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.Your head snaps over, you take a look at the airplane and say, “Oh, just anotherMustang.” At that point you realize it is OK to go home. When the extraordinary in aviation becomes normal, you have been […]

It’s been a long time since I last visited the EAA Fly-In atOshkosh. Twenty-one years long, to be exact. Back then, I was visiting because myboyfriend at the time wanted to go see the airshow for a day. It was fun. I rememberpurchasing a visor and sunscreen because I forgot them, and I got a […]

Jack Mark remembers the hot summer days when he was a kid in theworking class neighborhoods on the south side of Milwaukee. The depression of the 30’s was in full swing; hand-me-down shoes were a way of life, flying was something limited to the super-wealthy, and an afternoon at a city park was considered a […]

It’s happening right now. The yokes and sticks are being gripped by slightly sweaty hands as pilots look for all those other airplanes they know are around out there, while their ears are filled by a controller’s voice, “T-tailed Lance, turn your base now; Mooney on downwind, start your descent, keep it in tight; homebuilt […]

Arriving two days before the official opening of AirVenture 98 turned out to be a great idea. Jerry and I were able to get some sense of the lay of the land, but to tell the truth, I still didn’t know where anything was. No matter, because we still had two full days before our […]

Tom and Jerry do Oshkosh. Our first full day ofOshkosh dished out a heaping helping of true Oshkosh-type experiences. Between watching more planes, and more interesting planes, than I’ve ever seen, a one-legged landing by a P-51, and fierce winds which made crosswind landings more than an adventure and rearranged the camping area, this newcomer […]

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It’s like the tattooed biker my Mom always warnedme to avoid. “It’s for your own good,” she would say. “Something like that will only bring you grief.” MaybeDelmar Benjamin’s mother never told him to stay away from thingsthat would hurt him. Or, maybe she did and he just wasn’t listening. Benjamin is a lanky blond […]

This air show and aviation get-together is in someways like a wonderful meal. Every wonderful meal starts with extensivepreparation and that’s exactly what has occurred at Oshkosh 98with the forums and hands on workshops. They are a smorgasbordfor those hungry for a safer, better, and more pleasant flyingexperience. For appetizers there are the “How to” […]

One of the exciting things about the EAAAirVenture Oshkosh is meeting some of the old timers of experimental aviation such as KenFlaglor. Flaglor, now 72, holds “court” at the communications building atWittman Regional Airport during the flying and has done so at all the EAA conventionsexcept two, the very first and the convention in Milwaukee […]