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AirVenture
Seaplane Base
Nestled in a cozy cove
on Lake Winnebago's west shore is the EAA AirVenture Seaplane Base, site
of the 2000 EAA AirVenture "Splash-In." It's the center of activities for
people interested in water-based aviation. As EAA AirVenture has grown
over the years, so has participation at the seaplane base.
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Speedvision for coverage of AirVenture 2001.
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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 26, 2001 Volume 1, Number
9
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Young
Eagles Get First Flight in King’s Citation |
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EAA’s Young Eagles program allows kids
aged 8 to 17 to get their first taste of flight in a private
aircraft. For five kids from the Borden family of Brookfield, Wis.,
their first flight in a private aircraft turned out to be their
first flight in a jet. |
| Fond
du Lac Tower Crew Handles Oshkosh Overflow |
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Monday night before the start
of convention, the traffic at Fond du Lac was still thin, but
Wittman Field hadn’t filled up yet. As AirVenture gets underway, the
FAA controllers assigned to the temporary tower at the
Oshkosh-reliever airport just 15 miles to the south of Wittman Field
will become very busy indeed. |
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She’s
Taking Care of Denny’s Girls |
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Whenever someone asks Lynn
Ojala if she has any children, she smiles and replies, “Yes, I have
twin girls. They weigh 1,100 pounds and took 13 years of labor to
deliver.” |
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Wright
Experience Re-creating an Original the Hard
Way |
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Using hatchets, drawknives, gouges, and
other tools of the early 1900s, Larry Parks meticulously labors
away, each small sliver of wood being chipped away as his project
takes shape. |
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Disabled
Veterans Provided the AirVenture Experience
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AirVenture is an undeniably visual
experience, but for a group of blind veterans, who this year will
celebrate the 10th time they’ve visited, it is one of their favorite
outings of the year. |
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Taylorcraft
Twins |
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When Jon Timlin and his son,
Jason, pulled their 1946 Taylorcraft into Row 76 of antique and
classic parking, there was another Taylorcraft next to them.
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| British Company Has New Idea for Air Taxi
Service |
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“If you’re going to operate a
taxi service,” said Melvyn Hiscock, “you’ve got to be faster than
the bus.” Hiscock is part of a small, but growing maverick company,
called farnborough-aircraft.com. that wants to make air taxi service
a common and practical alternative to airline travel.
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| A New Way Around an Old Problem
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You know the drill: You
arrive at the airport ready to roll your airplane out of the hangar,
and the line boy informs you that there are four other aircraft
between yours and the hangar door. Forty minutes later, your
airplane finally rolls onto the apron. Your preflight includes
counting new hangar rashes. |
| Flying
Tigers Recount WWII Experiences |
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They were genuine heroes, a
raucous group of young American fliers who fought off Japanese
attacks on China before the United States entered World War
II. |
| Groen
Brothers Aviation Produces Aviation First
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The theme of this year’s
convention is “Aviation Firsts,” and Groen Brothers Aviation (GBA)
is the home of one of those firsts. The Salt Lake City, Utah,
company is the developer of the Hawk 4, the first turbine-powered
gyrocopter, powered by a Rolls Royce 250 B17C gas turbine
engine. |
| Misegades
Receives 2001 McKillop Award |
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Several years ago, EAA
Chapter 45 in Pittsburgh, Pa., developed the McKillop Award to
recognize its first Chapter newsletter editor, Mr. McKillop, for his
efforts to produce an informative and easy-to-read newsletter. The
Chapter Office took over the judging efforts several years
ago. |
| Fabric
Covering Isn’t All That Tough |
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Ever price out how much it
would cost for a professional shop to re-cover an airplane the size
of a Piper Cub? Jon Goldenbaum of Poly-Fiber Corporation says that
it would be about $15,000, compared to about $3,000 in materials if
you did all the labor yourself. Because of the tremendous amount of
labor involved, he estimates that owners and operators do 85 percent
of the covering today, both for certificated and for experimental
airplanes. |
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