AIRVENTURE
HIGHLIGHT: AIRVENTURE CUP RACE The
500 statute-mile race takes place on Sunday, July 23, the day before
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh opens. Taking off at Wright Brothers Field
(MGY) in Dayton, Ohio, racers make pylon turns at Sterling Rock
Falls in Whiteside County (SQI), Illinois, and Rockford, Illinois
(RFD), before the sprint north to a flying finish at Lomira,
Wisconsin. Racers then assemble at Fond du Lac (FLD) for a mass
arrival at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh later in the day.
The race is open to aircraft
certified in the experimental aircraft category and is divided into
several sub-categories based on engine size and landing gear
configuration. Pilots therefore compete against other similar
performing machines. (read
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EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2006 Photo
Highlight of the Day The
yellow Aviat Husky A-1B, this year's prize in EAA's aircraft
sweepstakes, flies with next year's prize - another Aviat. See more photos in the 2006 AirVenture
Photo Gallery
July 2006 EAA
Desktop Calendar
This is the month
everyone in aviation waits for; July and EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh. There you can see the best aerobatic performers strut
their stuff, like Dave Dacy & Tony Kazian during the daily
air shows.
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AirVenture Oshkosh 2006 to You Get a daily dose of the
World's Greatest Aviation Celebration with e-Hotline, EAA's
electronic newsletter. Every day throughout the fly-in, we'll bring
EAA AirVenture highlights, as they appear in the official convention
publication, EAA AirVenture Today. This year's line-up
features everything from sport pilot/light-sport aircraft to
civilian space flight, vintage, warbirds, and the people who fly
them. For those of you preparing for OSH, we can't wait to see you!
For the rest of you, look for us every day in your
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The official daily newspaper of EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh
You’re at the Center of the Aviation
Universe In terms of a countdown, we’re down to one;
tomorrow marks the opening of what aviation enthusiasts from around
the world have been waiting for: The 54th annual EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh, The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration. Read
more
U.S. Navy Blue
Angels Flight Team to makes special EAA AirVenture fly-bys on July
28 The U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration
squadron, one of the world’s greatest aviation teams, will be making
special fly-bys at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2006 on Friday, July 28.
The 54th annual EAA fly-in convention, The World’s Greatest Aviation
Celebration, will be held July 24-30 at Wittman Regional Airport in
Oshkosh. Read
more
Meet Blue Angels
Pilot, See Aircraft at AeroShell Square Aviation
enthusiasts can learn more about the pilots and aircraft that are
part of one of the world’s finest aerobatic teams, as a U.S. Navy
Blue Angels pilot visit EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2006. Lt. Kevin
"Kojak" Davis and the No. 7 Blue Angels F/A-18 "Hornet" two-place
aircraft will arrive at Oshkosh today and depart on Wednesday, July
26. Read
more
Beach Boys ready
to rock at AirVenture Monday evening The Beach Boys
have been nearly everywhere since brothers Brian, Carl, and Dennis
Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine got together
and invented what became known as "The California Sound" in the
early 1960s. One thing they haven’t done, though, is be part of EAA
AirVenture Oshkosh—The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration. Read
more
NASA to display
shuttle engine, next generation vehicle mock-up at EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh NASA knows that the way to space and back
includes sprints through the atmosphere. This year’s NASA exhibit at
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh features a real space shuttle rocket engine
and, for the first time, a full-size, mock-up silhouette of what the
next generation astronauts may take to the moon, Mars, and beyond.
Check out these and other features at NASA’s exhibit building north
of the control tower, just east of the Honda Forums Plaza. Read
more
‘Carnauba’ S-38
returns to AirVenture One of the most popular replicas
of a storied vintage aircraft to ever appear at EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh returns this year. SC Johnson Co.’s Carnauba Sikorsky S-38
is an exact replica of the Sikorsky S-38 that H.F. Johnson Jr.,
third-generation Johnson family leader, piloted in 1935 to
Fortaleza, Brazil, to discover new supplies of carnauba palms. What
the Brazilians call "The Tree of Life" was the source of the world’s
hardest natural wax used by the company for its floor wax products.
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Here’s to you,
C-172! Part of the reason EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is
known as "The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration" is because it’s
a perfect place to celebrate the landmark anniversaries and events
of flight. This year we salute the 50th anniversary of one of the
general aviation fleet’s mainstays, the Cessna 172 Skyhawk. Read
more
Cessna Base Camp
in the North 40 Get down to the North 40 this week to
see something that has not happened at EAA AirVenture before: a
specially designated area set aside for as many as 500 airplanes to
honor the 50th anniversary of the Cessna 172/182 dubbed the Cessna
Base Camp. Read
more
What do you want
to know? Find out at EAA AirVenture forums &
workshops A wise man once said, "If it has
something to do with aviation, chances are you can learn more about
it at Oshkosh." Read
more
Meet and greet
your favorite aviation writers at Author’s Corner Take
several tables and chairs, over two dozen accomplished aviation
authors with their display of great books, mix in thousands of
people, some friendly conversation and more smiles than you can
count, and you have Author’s Corner at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. Read
more
National GA Award
recipients announced EAA AirVenture Oshkosh presentation
planned The General Aviation Awards Committee
announced selections for the 43rd annual National GA Awards, whose
recipients will be honored by FAA Administrator Marion Blakey during
a Wednesday, July 27, ceremony at AirVenture Oshkosh 2006. The
recipients are: Rich Stowell, 2006 Certificated Flight Instructor
(CFI) of the Year; Gene Hudson, Aviation Safety Counselor (ASC) of
the Year; Joe Hawkins, Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) of the
Year; and Terry Markovich, Avionics Technician of the Year. Read
more
Don’t miss this
week’s spectacular Warbirds air shows From primary and
advanced trainers to lumbering, heavy Allied bombers from World War
II, powerful piston fighters and jets, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
features the widest variety of ex-military airplanes in the world.
They’ll all be here this week--more than 300 of ’em--featured in
several special events, including expanded, fiery air show
performances on Friday and Saturday afternoons. Read
more
From the road to
the sky; Experience it at the Ford Hangar See where
innovation takes flight and visit the Ford Hangar at EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh 2006. The latest in Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Mazda, Volvo,
Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles will be on display including the
Volvo C70 and Jaguar XK. Learn about Ford’s Safety, Design and
Technology innovations. Hear all about the F-250 Super Chief concept
vehicle and how the world’s first tri-flex vehicle operates on
gasoline, hydrogen and E85 ethanol. You will also see the 2007
Shelby GT500 Mustang and one of the new Shelby GT-H Mustangs that
are now available at select Hertz locations across the country. Read
more
Celebrating the
‘Hallmarks of Homebuilding’ More than a half-century
of the innovation that has emerged from private aircraft hangars,
garages and basements will be highlighted at the "Hallmarks of
Homebuilding" exhibit near the flightline at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
2006. Eleven individual hallmarks celebrate the revolutionary
moments in aircraft design and construction. Read
more
See aviation
authorities, personalities at EAA AirVenture
Museum Where can you see not only the two pilots of
SpaceShipOne give their own personal observations of flying into
suborbital space, but also the man who designed the spacecraft that
got them there? Or see and hear from World War II heroes, modern day
innovators, and esteemed aviation personalities on a daily basis?
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2006, of course, and the venue is the EAA
AirVenture Museum Speaker Showcase. Read
more
Safety first in
Warbirds area on air show days On days the Warbirds of
America perform at EAA AirVenture this week (all days except
Thursday), the Warbirds area is required to close certain sections
of the aircraft parking area just before, during, and after the
performances. With dozens of aircraft starting up and taxiing
through "public access" areas (warbirds aircraft parking), it
creates a huge safety concern. Read
more
HondaJet to hold
flight demonstration, technical briefing on
Tuesday The innovative HondaJet will expand its
presence at this year’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, The World’s Greatest
Aviation Celebration, with a detailed technical briefing and a
demonstration flight. HondaJet Project Leader Michimasa Fujino will
conduct the technical briefing to share the most recent status of
the HondaJet program on Tuesday, July 25, at 1 p.m. followed by the
demonstration flight the same day at 2:30 p.m. Read
more
KidVenture 2006
offers riveting experience More activities will be
available for KidVenture participants this year than ever before.
Leading the way are a hands-on riveting project and actual flight
instruction received from a Certificated Flight Instructor. A wide
variety of other activities create numerous opportunities to learn
about the basics of flight. Read
more
NAFI Provides
Kids’ First Flight Instruction Kids can also move
beyond video games and into actual flight-simulator training at
KidVenture by receiving flight training from members of the National
Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI). They will provide the
actual flight instruction on an On Top Basic Aviation Training
Device (ATD) simulator provided by Aviation Supplies & Academics
(ASA). Read
more
Get ‘One Six
Right’ through EAA and help Young Eagles Special free screenings July 28 at
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh One Six Right, a
full-length documentary highlighting the wonder and fascination with
flight, will be available throughout the week at EAA AirVenture. For
the entire month of July, $5 of each DVD sold will be donated to the
EAA Young Eagles Program. Read
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See outdoor movies
at night on a 5-story-high screen Remember the days of
the old 44 Outdoor Theater, right outside Wittman Field? Those days
live again this year and right in Camp Scholler as Ford Motor
Company and Eclipse Aviation present the EAA Fly-In Theater. Classic
aviation movies will be projected onto a 5-story high inflatable
screen tonight through Saturday evening during EAA AirVenture.
Programs begin at 8:30 and the movies start at 9:00. Read
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Medical
certification likely a hot topic at EAA AirVenture
2006 Government comes to AirVenture One of
the general aviation community’s most talked-about issues—pilot
medical certification—will again be a prime topic during forum
sessions at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. The pilot community will have
several opportunities to learn more about EAA’s efforts to
streamline medical certification and FAA progress on those issues.
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