by EAA | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, KidVenture, learn to fly, Learning to Fly, Youth & Young Eagles
By Abigail Oleniczak The excitement of KidVenture began 25 years ago when then EAA Chairman Tom Poberezny and Vice President Greg Anderson asked EAA Director Dan Majka to create somewhere for kids to be involved with aviation on the EAA grounds. Dan said he wanted a...
by EAA | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, learn to fly, Learning to Fly, Member Stories
By Barbara A. Schmitz To say Jessica Cox, of Tucson, Arizonia, has a can-do attitude is a massive understatement. She was born without arms and learned to do things with her feet that many people think can’t be done. “Before I had LASIK surgery, I used to put contacts...
by Angela Satterlee | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, Member Stories, Sling Aircraft
By Angela Satterlee Mike Blyth — a test pilot, entrepreneur, and aircraft lover who founded Sling Aircraft — is the winner of the Dr. August Raspet Memorial Award this year. He accepted it on Wednesday, July 24, from the director of EAA chapters and homebuilding,...
by EAA | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, Member Stories, volunteer, volunteers
By Jim Roberts Jeff Coffey spent 30 years as an air traffic controller, including 15 years working SUN ’n FUN, and nine tours wearing the distinctive pink shirt of an EAA AirVenture Oshkosh controller. Now retired from the FAA, in 2023 Jeff traded in his pink shirt...
by EAA | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, Member Stories, p-51, women in aviation
By Barbara A. Schmitz Vicky Benzing wanted to fly a P-51 so bad that she took the training course to get qualified in the Mustang in hopes that someone would need her to ferry one. When that didn’t happen, her husband gave her a die-cast model of a Mustang. But today...
by EAA | Jul 24, 2024 | #AirShow, Aerobatics, AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, TITAN
By Barbara A. Schmitz Their name and paint job may be new, but their crowd-pleasing show will remain the same as the TITAN Aerobatic Team in its AT-6 Texans takes center stage for both day and twilight air shows this week at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. “The routine was...
