by EAA | Jul 27, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, Member Stories, volunteers
By Robbie Culver “RV with the wig-wags a half mile before Fisk, rock your wings!” To a pilot, the words “rock your wings” are almost sacred. They mean we are approaching the small town of Fisk, Wisconsin, on the approach to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh and are about to...
by EAA | Jul 27, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA volunteers, volunteering, volunteers
By Jim Roberts At any gathering as large as EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, you’re bound to have the usual run of bumps, scrapes, cuts, and occasionally more life-threatening episodes. To find out how EAA handles these events, I spoke with some of the professionals who...
by EAA | Jul 27, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, Member Stories, volunteers, Warbirds, wwii
By Jim Roberts It’s not every day you get to see and hear an aircraft engine that helped win World War II. Thanks to four dedicated volunteers, a 12-cylinder liquid-cooled Allison V-1710 engine is singing out loud near EAA Warbirds in Review. During WWII, over 69,000...
by Angela Satterlee | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, EAA volunteers, Member Stories, volunteers
By Angela Satterlee Dennis Lange, EAA 198454, is from Fond du Lac, and he started volunteering at EAA back in 1979, became a member shortly after that in 1981, and hasn’t missed an AirVenture since his first year as a volunteer. “I took off for vacation for years to...
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 Emme Hornung | Jul 21, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA volunteers, volunteers
By Emme Hornung Picture this: The roar of the morning P-51 formation just pulled you out of sleep. Usually, you hit snooze on your alarm, but there is no snooze button for the excitement of AirVenture. You unzip your tent, and the fresh smell of coffee and syrup calls...
