by EAA | Mar 20, 2021 | #OSH19, AirVenture, History
By Barbara A. Schmitz Austin Bowman, then 14, recalled being upset, even mad, when his parents sold the family’s Glasair in 2000 that his dad, Skip, had built soon after he was born. “I was just getting old enough to officially start flight training,” he said. “But...
by EAA | Mar 20, 2021 | #OSH19, AirVenture, History, Member Stories, Stories Of Oshkosh, volunteer
By Barbara A. Schmitz Bob Herman has been attending the EAA fly-in convention for 51 years, and volunteering for 50 of those years. “But I didn’t realize I was volunteering those first years until Women Activities’ Chair Jenny Dyke told me that was what I was doing,”...
by EAA | Mar 20, 2021 | #OSH19, AirVenture, Youth & Young Eagles
By Kayla Floyd The PedalVenture parade took place down Celebration Way on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering for a pedal-powered model plane parade. The previous record was 31 pedal planes, while the goal...
by Christina Basken | Mar 20, 2021 | #50inOSH, #OSH19, AirVenture, Honoring The Past, Stories Of Oshkosh
Charlie and Steve Gay’s 1965 Bowers Fly Baby 608X has returned to Oshkosh for the first time since 1970. The Fly Baby is a single-seat, folding-wing monoplane, originally designed in 1960 by Pete Bowers to compete in EAA’s design competition. Charlie acquired the Fly...
by Christina Basken | Mar 20, 2021 | #Aircraft, #OSH19, AirVenture, History, Member Stories
In 2003, Norman Surplus, then 40, was diagnosed with bowel cancer. The prognosis wasn’t good. “They gave me a 40 percent chance to live 18 months,” he recalled. As he recovered from the surgery in the hospital, he watched daytime TV and happened on a channel that...
by EAA | Mar 20, 2021 | #OSH19, AirVenture, Milestones
By Barbara A. Schmitz Flying Musicians is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2019, all while singing the praises of pilots who perform. John Zapp, president and CEO, said the idea for Flying Musicians was borne out of a chance meeting with country music musician Roy...
