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AirVenture 2001
Fast
Facts
Total estimated
attendance:
750,000
Total
estimated aircraft flown to event:
10,000
Total
showplanes: 2,481,
including:
653 Homebuilts
135 Amphibian/
Floatplanes/ Seaplanes
103 Antiques
23 Aerobatic
434
Classics
389 Ultralights/Light Planes
316 Contemporaries
419
Warbirds
8 Specials
1 Replica
Campers: More than 40,000 people at Camp Scholler, with an additional 5,000
in Transient Aircraft and Showplane Camping areas.
Volunteers
participating: More than 4,800
(contributing more than 250,000 hours)
International visitors
registered: 1,819 from 72
nations
Media attending: 780 from five continents (North America, South America,
Europe, Africa and Australia)
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August 2, 2001 Volume 1, Number
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EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh 2001 Wrap Up - Visit the EAA AirVenture website for full coverage
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| ‘Aviation Firsts' People, Airplanes Make EAA
AirVenture Oshkosh 2001 a Success |
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Accomplished aviators,
magnificent airplanes and even a phone call from space were among
the highlights this year as EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2001, the 49th
annual gathering for EAA, completed its seven-day run at Wittman
Regional Airport in Oshkosh. |
| This is the national air show
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What
makes AirVenture a truly national show is that it now represents all
facets of American aviation activity. No other show can make that
claim, no matter how successful it may be in showcasing one segment
or another of U.S. aviation.
by J. Mac
McClellan
Flying Magazine, for AirVenture
Today |
| Vintage planes give look at early days of
flight |
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Air travel isn't always about
convenience. Pat Harker faced cold winds and cramped legs for three
hours while flying from Minneapolis to Oshkosh in the open cockpit
of his 1941 biplane. He wouldn't have it any other way.
By Jim Collar
Of the
Northwestern |
| EAA members let their spirit soar
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The morning light shining through a
stained glass window and a cool breeze wafting down the aisle were
Karo Stigler's lone companions Sunday morning as she sat reading
religious prose in Fergus Chapel on the Experimental Aircraft
Association grounds.
By Steve
Wideman
Post-Crescent staff writer |
| EAA members plan next year’s convention |
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Next year’s AirVenture theme
will celebrate the organization’s own past, Experimental Aircraft
Association president Tom Poberezny announced at Sunday’s annual
general membership meeting. “One of the highlights will be
recreating in scope and size the original convention in 1953” as
part of the bigger convention, Poberezny said at the Theater in the
Woods Auditorium.
By John J.
Archibald
For the Press-Gazette |
| The fountain of youth |
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They
stretch for a mile and a half down the flight line — a banquet of
eye candy in yellow, silver, red, green, and white. There are radial
engines, Rotax engines, new designs, old designs, high wings, low
wings — wings, in fact, as far as the eye can see. And yet, as I
wander among some of the 12,000 winged machines that will grace the
grass and tarmac here this week, it occurs to me that this gathering
is not really about airplanes.
by Lane
Wallace
Flying Magazine, for AirVenture
Today |
| EAA: Judging aircraft a challenge
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There are three things an
aircraft judge at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture
must consider. Jim Miller, a 28-year homebuilt aircraft judge, first
considers the excitement of getting up close and personal with the
thousands of planes parked on the convention grounds.
By Hlee
Vang
of the Northwestern |
| It’s a big, wide world out there
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Some people say the aviation
world is small, but it doesn’t seem that way when you’re walking row
after row of aircraft or winding your way through throngs of people
who have one thing in common: They love airplanes.
By Meg
Godlewski,
General Aviation News |
| Warbirds keep history alive |
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Satisfying their ego was the
last thing warbirds pilots thought about Saturday afternoon during
their show at the Experimental Aircraft Association's
AirVenture.
By Hlee Vang
of the Northwestern
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| Non-stop flight around world had harrowing
moments |
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Dick Rutan wasn't the first
person to fly around the world, but he was the first to do it
without stopping for gas. Fifteen years ago, Rutan and co-pilot
Jeana Yeager snared what's been called the final aviation first -
circumnavigating the globe without refueling.
By MEG JONES
of the Journal Sentinel
staff |
| Pyrotechnic show brings in the crowds at
EAA |
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Birds, not planes, dominated
the skies over Wittman Regional Airport Saturday morning as Pete
Stark of Appleton walked through the main gate of the Experimental
Aircraft Association's AirVenture 2001 convention.
By Steve
Wideman
Post-Crescent staff writer |
| Collins
offers one last look into Wright legacy |
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Last day visitors to the
Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture 2001 had an
opportunity to share in the nostalgia of the "Aviation Firsts"
theme. Darrell Collins, a historian with the Wright Brothers
National Memorial in Kitty Hawk, N.C., discussed the Wright Brothers
and their first flights.
Oshkosh Northwestern |
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