Star Novak, who has contributed many great photographs to General Aviation News, was going through her hundreds of photos from this year’s AirVenture in Oshkosh when this photo stood out to her immediately. “I was on the front line when the multitudes of parachutists started to land, and I turned my camera just in time […]
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Picture of the day: OSH seaplane base
Adriana Schmidt sent in this photo she snapped at this year’s AirVenture at the Oshkosh seaplane base.
Around the field at AirVenture Oshkosh
I’ve often found that AirVenture is like drinking from the proverbial firehose. Until I look back through my notebook, the show is a bit of a blur. We’ve reported many of the storylines from the show, but I found a few nuggets in my notebook I think are worth sharing: Epic Aircraft is fully on […]
Pictures of the day: Making its AirVenture debut…
Goodyear brought its new “Wingfoot One” to AirVenture for the first time. Not technically a blimp, the semi-rigid airship was built in Akron with help from Germany’s Zeppelin company, according to regular General Aviation News contributor Tom Snow, who snapped these photos.
Stereotypically atypical
Everybody knows that people who are into aviation are rich. They’re spoiled, self-absorbed, 1%-ers who have no regard for what it takes to get by in the real world. Heck, airplanes cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and that’s just for the small ones. Yep, pilots and aircraft owners are filthy rich scum who do nothing […]
Picture of the day: North 40 campers take cover!
Reader Kevin Brown sent in this photo taken at Oshkosh as a storm rolled in on Saturday morning of the fly-in.
Arriving at Oshkosh in style
By AMELIA REIHELD. How do you get to Oshkosh from here? If you’re headed that way for the Experimental Aircraft Association’s famed AirVenture in late July, there’s the Fisk Arrival, which gives new meaning to “line up and wait” — in motion. It’s very exciting, merging all kinds of airplanes, arriving from all points of the compass, […]
Fred Stadler named Phillips 66 Aviation’s Leadership Award Winner
OSHKOSH, Wis. – Phillips 66 Aviation revealed that this year’s Leadership Award winner is Fred Stadler, a year-round volunteer for the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA). Stadler reached an unprecedented milestone in July when he flew his 6,000th Young Eagle, setting the record for the most volunteer flights by any pilot participant in the program. “Fred’s above-and-beyond […]
AirVenture exceeds expectations
About 550,000 people attended this year’s AirVenture, a jump of about 2% from last year, according to officials with the Experimental Aircraft Association. “AirVenture 2015 exceeded our expectations on many levels,” noted EAA Chairman Jack Pelton. “With near-perfect weather for the entire event, we filled Wittman Regional Airport and our convention site to capacity with […]