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EAA AirVenture
Museum's
Pioneer Airport
EAA AirVenture Museum's Pioneer
Airport portrays a time when the magic of flying charmed a nation. It is
where one can savor old flying machines in their appropriate surroundings,
maybe retrace a few memories or perhaps garner some new.
Upcoming EAA
Events
EAA SportAir
Workshops
Next Workshop:
AUGUST
10-12, 2001, CORONA, CA
Topic: RV
Assembly
Image Of The Month
EAA's website features a different
airplane-themed calendar every month that you can download and use as wallpaper. For
July, we feature EAA's pair of Young Eagles RV-6As. |
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EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
2001, July 24-30!
July 23, 2001
Volume 1, Number 6
www.airventure.org | www.eaa.org
During EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
2001, e-Hot Line will be published on a daily basis with current news and
events directly from EAA AirVenture. Visit the EAA AirVenture website for
full coverage of the
event. We welcome your comments and suggestions to
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Welcome to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh,
Aviation Firsts |
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To all EAA members, visitors,
exhibitors, air show performers and, of course, our wonderful
volunteers, welcome to AirVenture Oshkosh, the 49th EAA convention
and weeklong celebration of flight. |
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Volunteers Prepare for AirVenture
Oshkosh 2001 |
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Norma Gerber is one of
the hundreds of EAA members who have arrived at Wittman Field long
before the fly-in starts to help get things ready.
Norma arrived yesterday, but her husband, Gary, has already been
here a week. |
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It’s Great to be a Kid at
KidVenture |
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KidVenture, sponsored by
Nesquik, opens its third year at AirVenture on Wednesday. Adjacent
to the EAA Museum and Aviation Center complex, KidVenture offers
supervised, hands-on activities for kids of all ages, each with an
aviation theme. |
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EAA’s Countdown to Kitty
Hawk |
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On December 17, 2003, the birth of
aviation will be recreated at Kitty Hawk through EAA’s Countdown To Kitty Hawk
celebration. |
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EAA Improves Educational Aviation
Campus |
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The Experimental Aircraft
Association took another significant step toward creating an
educational aviation campus
with the construction of two forum pavilions and two workshop
pavilions this year.
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The Magic of Hot Air
Ballooning |
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Ballooning is the oldest form of flight. Long before the Wright brothers’ famous first powered
flight on December 17, 1903, man floated among the clouds in a
balloon. |
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Federal Pavilion Hosts U.S. and
Canadian Agencies |
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Again this year,
numerous government agencies from Canada and the United States have
grouped their informational efforts at Federal Pavilion, right on
the flight line just north of the FAA Control Tower and next to the
new Countdown to Kitty Hawk Pavilion. |
| EAA Air Academy Goes to 'Cali' |
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The EAA Air Academy is going on
the road, holding its first-ever satellite school at Flabob Airport
in California. |
| Happy Birthday, Amelia |
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July 24, opening day of
AirVenture Oshkosh 2001, is also the birthday of a very important
person in aviation history: Amelia Earhart, pioneer who
inspired millions of women and girls, was born on July 24,
1897. |
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Won’t Be the Same Without "Yellow 2" |
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Vic Goyke, the former chief of security at
EAA, died on July 3 after a long battle
with cancer. He was 74. Best known for his "Yellow 2" radio call sign, Goyke worked
at EAA for 31 years, including 28 years as chief of security.
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| The Fate of Chicago’s Meigs Field Remains
Uncertain |
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Downtown Chicago’s
lakefront airport is slated to close in February 2002. But as that
date draws nearer, the fate of Meigs Field
becomes less certain and the tale more tangled. |
| Volunteer Group is Charged to "Protect Our
Planes" |
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When venturing onto the
AirVenture flight line, visitors should be aware of EAA’s
established safety rules designed for their protection and that of
airplane owners and their aircraft. A new volunteer effort,
Operation: Protect Our Planes, was created this year to help heighten awareness of
these rules. |
| EAA Plans Sport Pilot Center |
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With the proposed
Sport Pilot/Light Sport Airplane rule looming on the horizon, recreational aviation is
poised for significant growth. Expectations are that the number of
new Sport Pilots—as well as those returning to aviation—will create
widespread interest in this new category of
flying. |
| Ultralights Remain at the Essence of Flight
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Because it is flying at
its most elemental level, ultralight flight remains one
of the popular and growing segments of sport aviation, and there’s
no sign of that changing, according to Chazz Humphrey, chairman of
the AirVenture Ultralight area.
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| Vision of Eagles Provides Aviation Opportunities For
Youth |
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A national spokesman
and a new collaborative effort with NASA should help EAA’s Vision of Eagles initiative fly even higher in its quest to promote aviation among
today’s youth. |
| X-15: For Real Speed Freaks |
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X-15 . . . Its very name
sounds like something out of the pulp science fiction of the 1930s.
Its true story is just as exciting. It was the fastest airplane
ever—a record that still stands 34 years later—and was the first
airplane to reach outer space. It paved the way for spacecraft and
space flights to follow, from the Mercury program to the Space
Shuttle and beyond. |
| Women’s Flight Makes Second AirVenture Landing
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Even though the number
of participants for the second women’s flight into AirVenture was
down from the first year, the energy level was as high as ever. The
energetic group of 14 women flew into Wittman Regional Airport
Saturday afternoon as the second annual "Chick’s Flight."
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| Exhibitors Start Early to Tame Chaos
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On early Sunday
morning, the space between the exhibitor buildings is reminiscent of
a distribution center, with semitrailers scattered in odd places and
forklifts buzzing around. Many pilots begin their journeys to
AirVenture several days before convention begins, but many exhibitors have journeys that start long before
AirVenture as well. |
| Two Grand Prize Winners in Young Eagles Jaguar
Raffle |
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Organizers of this
year’s Young Eagles Jaguar raffle
will give away two luxury automobiles on the final day of AirVenture
Oshkosh. |
| Everyone Wins in the EAA Aviation Foundation
Sweepstakes |
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Contributing to the
EAA Aviation Foundation sweepstakes makes you a winner by supporting its preservation of
aviation’s rich, colorful heritage through the AirVenture Museum,
Pioneer Airport, and the EAA B-17; its education programs for people
of all ages; and its research that brings innovations to
recreational aviation. |
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Airplane Association * * *
Ultralights * * *
National
Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) * * * International Aerobatics
Club (IAC) * *
* Homebuilders * * * Warbirds
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