AirVenture

Day One (Tuesday) Day Two (Wednesday) Day Three (Thursday) Day Four (Friday) Day Five (Saturday) Day Six (Sunday) Day Seven (Monday) Day One – July 28, 1998 Click on the image for a larger High Resolution Image. EAA requires all planes to be tied down. Paul & Carolyn Applegate and family enjoy the shade of […]

Remember Oshkosh Oshkosh is nigh upon us and AVweb columnist MichaelMaya Charles ruminates about his annual pilgrimage to that littletown in Wisconsin where it’s always 1956. His vivid descriptionsof his memorable, and not so memorable experiences will leaveyou with a sore gut and perhaps a bit damp in the corner of youreyes. MMC also offers […]

Monday, July 27th, two days before the EAA AirVentureOshkosh 1998 convention even opened, the sound of airplanes atfull fury filled the air at Oshkosh Wittman field. Ten very special,very speedy airplanes wrestled for the finish line on the southend of runway 18-36, ending a 822 nautical mile cross countryrace. Though there have been air races […]

We landed in Oshkosh in mid-afternoon five days before the official opening of the convention in what appeared to be a sleepy, under-utilized mid-western airport. The rains that had plagued the Midwest all spring and summer affected central Wisconsin as well. The grass taxiways used during the convention were soft and several of the traditional […]