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Oshkosh 1998 Image Gallery:
Day One – Tuesday, July 28
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 […]
Oshkosh 1998 Coverage:
AVweb’s Preliminary Report
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 […]
Eye of Experience #4:
Dropouts
Flight schools have always experienced a substantially higherdrop out rate than almost any other educational endeavor. Thisproblem has plagued the entire aviation community for as longas I can remember, and, believe me, that’s one very long time.We can speculate as to the causes for this phenomenon foreverwithout reaching any firm conclusions. Basically, there are twokinds […]
Landing in Japan
If you are a WWII history buff, you probably knowthat Gen. MacArthur landed in Japan on 30 August 1945 and acceptedthe surrender of Japan on 2 September on the battleship Missouri. And according to William Manchester’s “American Caesar -Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964” … “Japan, the only majorpower whose soil had never been sullied by the boot […]
Addicted to Drugs: The Civil Air Patrol and Operation Drop-In
Recent reporting by AVweb and other aviationpublications illuminating the Civil Air Patrol’s (CAP) participationin Operation Drop-In and related anti-drug efforts by the federalgovernment has highlighted a fundamental shift from the CAP’straditional primary mission, search and rescue. No longer isthe organization’s central focus on its role as the auxiliaryto the U.S. Air Force but, increasingly, it […]
