by EAA | Jul 27, 2024 | AirVenture, aviation history, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, Fighters, History, Replica, Replica Fighters, wwi, wwii
By Robbie Culver In my dreams, I fly a World War I Sopwith Camel. I’m wearing a leather flying coat emblazoned with my squadron’s emblem, a leather helmet, and goggles, with a white scarf flowing in the airstream. The sun streams in layered bands and reflects off my...
by Megan Esau | Mar 20, 2021 | From The Hangar Floor, History, Member Stories, restoration, Warbirds, wwi
In the early 2000s, when Don Funke, EAA 652318, and a group of friends were discussing the history of aviation in their hometown of Ithaca, New York, they could only have dreamed that 15 years later they would be close to completing the restoration of a World War I...
by EAA | Mar 20, 2021 | AirVenture, Anniversaries, coast guard, desert storm, military, pearl harbor, wwi
As important as aircraft are at AirVenture, it is the people involved with aviation, and those who put their lives on the line for our safety, who we took time out to thank and commemorate in 2016. Take a look back as we honored the Desert Storm 25th, World War I...
