by EAA | Jul 25, 2025 | AirVenture, AirVenture Today
Story and Photography By Jim Roberts When you spot a sparkling Spartan Executive parked south of the Theater in the Woods, be sure to visit with the young pilots who flew it here from South Carolina. The three — Ben Templeton, Niklas Clauditz, and Jack Bengard — are...
by EAA | Jul 25, 2025 | AirVenture, AirVenture Today
Story and Photography By Jessica Schaefer, EAA 1284501 Back on Cottonwood Avenue in Camp Scholler, the sounds of Top Gun echo across the tents, interrupting the rhythm of the campfire conversation. But there’s only four of us, for now. Chairs start dragging over wet...
by EAA | Jul 25, 2025 | AirVenture, AirVenture Today
By Laura Early, SouthWings Eastern Program Director North America’s largest blackwater wetland, the Okefenokee Swamp, covers more than 400,000 acres in Southeast Georgia. It is truly a unique freshwater ecosystem — home to more than 600 species of plants, 40 mammals,...
by Angela Satterlee | Jul 25, 2025 | AirVenture, AirVenture Today, volunteers
The Martins’ journey with EAA began in the late 1980s when Cindy Martin, EAA 288433, and her husband, Robert, EAA 1034583, first attended AirVenture. A few years later, they began bringing their younger children and started volunteering with Operation Thirst. A short...
by EAA | Jul 25, 2025 | AirVenture, AirVenture Today
By Abigail Oleniczak EAA AirVenture’s First Aid building offers many different services. The staff are a happy group of volunteers who share one common goal: to help and care for the spectators at the air show. They provide assistance for the things no one...
by EAA | Jul 25, 2025 | AirVenture, AirVenture Today, Anniversaries
Story and Photography By Jim Roberts Conceived by Lockheed’s C. L. “Kelly” Johnson and built at his Skunk Works, the U-2 first flew in July 1955 and has served faithfully since. Not your grandfather’s spyplane, many of the current fleet are from a production run in...
