For 51 weeks of the year, what EAA AirVenture Oshkosh visitors know as the EAA Seaplane Base is private property and empty of planes, people, campers, and tents.
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Britny Connella attended EAA AirVenture Oshkosh with her family in 1999, the first year KidVenture began, and after a day of traipsing around the main grounds and not being able ... Read more
Mack and Zara Rutherford aren’t just your typical sibling duo. These two set out to accomplish bold endeavors and ended up with an adventure that placed them in record books.
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Gustavo Arosemena of Panama is highly involved with EAA, starting his chapter in Panama and volunteering year after year at the International Visitors Tent during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh week.
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For five years, Ladies of Liberty, of Louisville, Kentucky, have been doing that — performing at the Vintage Circle before the Vintage in Review programs with their Andrews Sisters style ... Read more
There was no comparison to the feeling of taking someone flying in a small aircraft for the first time, seeing the smile and adrenaline pumping through them.
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Fifty years ago, in March 1973, U.S. military forces officially withdrew from South Vietnam after eight long years of conflict. This year at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2023, we’re honoring the ... Read more
Charles “Cowboy” Crinnian thought he was just one of the presenters in a Tuesday forum, and the surprised look on his face made it clear he didn’t have a clue ... Read more
Three generations of pilots in one family are fully immersed in avia- tion, so much so that to them coming to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is a family reunion.
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By Barbara A. Schmitz Eileen Bjorkman said there have been a lot of books written about female aviators known as Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II, as well ... Read more
Brothers Rodney and Steve Jarrell aren’t veterans, but they had friends who were and never got the respect they deserved. So the two decided to do something about it.
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Steve Taylor and his team have been playing one big chess game this EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, and it’s been a winning game for those attending the weeklong convention and fly-in.
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Story and Photography by Jim Roberts Hill 887. You’re holding the Huey in a dead hover 150 feet above a firefight. Through the trees below, a critically wounded GI is ... Read more
About ten thousand hours ago (pilots understand this time frame, and this is a flying story after all), I found myself working as a civilian for the Air Force in ... Read more
After 42 short hops in six days, 14-year-old Alina Scott made her first trip to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh all the way from South Carolina in her Aerolite 103 ultralight!
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Dave and Wanda Clark live in the suburbs of Indianapolis and have been attending EAA conventions since 1969, when it was still based in Rockford, Illinois, and out of all ... Read more
Grayling Peterson started creating scrapbooks highlighting the yearly EAA convention and fly-in the same year EAA debuted its daily newspaper on the grounds.
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This Year at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, we are remembering those who served in the Vietnam War, 50 years after the official withdrawal of American troops.
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The first spark. The engagement. The wedding. How do these events relate to aviation? They involve a tired, old air-plane that was soon to spread its wings again.
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To most, safari conjures up images of flying around Africa and looking down at amazing vistas and ani-mals usually seen in zoos. But a group of Israeli and Dutch pilots ... Read more
After earning his pilot certificate, John Limbach, EAA 602992, took a 13-year “sabbatical” from flying. As happens to so many folks, life got in the way and fly-ing fell by ... Read more
