AIRVENTURE
HIGHLIGHT: AEROSHELL SQUARE Looking
for big, fast, historic, powerful or just unique aircraft? Every
year AeroShell
Square at AirVenture Oshkosh has them. It hosts the kind of
aircraft usually seen only on television or, at best, from a great
distance.
AIRVENTURE WITH A
SPLASH
Looking for a refreshing break
from the hubbub of Wittman Field? Try your EAA AirVenture 2006 with
a splash. The EAA Seaplane Base on the shore of Lake Winnebago
showcases a different side of aviation. Quiet and laid back, here
water-worthy aircraft from large amphibians to ultralights on floats
bob at anchor or rest against the shore. Shuttle buses from the
Amphibian parking area on the AirVenture flightline operate from
8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. daily ($2 round trip). The popular annual
Watermelon Social pig roast will be held Saturday, July 29, at 5:30
p.m. ($12 in advance; $14 at the door). Says EAA Seaplane Base
Chairman Paul Seehafer, "Pull up a little spot of grass on the
shoreline, just watch airplanes, or enjoy the lake, or bring your
swimming trunks and go swimming."
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2006 Photo
Highlight of the Day A double
rainbow presents itself behind aircraft parked at EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh on Monday morning. Photo by H.G. Frautschy 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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e-Hotline Brings EAA
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
EAA president welcomes you to
AirVenture On behalf of EAAers worldwide, welcome to
the 54th annual fly-in convention of the Experimental Aircraft
Association. Known around the globe as the world's greatest
celebration of aviation, in almost every language EAA AirVenture is
referred to by its hometown—Oshkosh. Read
more
Top Aviation
Leaders on AirVenture User-Fee Panel Leaders from the
nation's top general aviation organizations, plus GA industry
leaders, will be featured at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh on Tuesday, July
25, during a top-level panel discussion on the impact of user fees
on personal flight. Read
more
Cessna to unveil
proof-of-concept light-sport aircraft Is Cessna going to enter the light-sport aircraft (LSA)
market? Will the design be all-metal? A high-wing? How much will it
cost? When will it be available? How will it improve on aircraft
already on the market? Those questions and more were on many
attendees' minds as this year's EAA AirVenture Oshkosh got underway.
They all stem from Cessna's recent announcement the company is
studying the feasibility of developing and producing an entry into
the growing LSA market and is bringing a full-scale proof-of-concept
aircraft to the fly-in this year. Read
more
Aviation-world premiere of
'Flyboys' at AirVenture The
major motion picture Flyboys, set for theatrical release
across the nation on September 29, 2006, will debut right here at
EAA AirVenture on Wednesday night. The film's producers are calling
it the movie's "aviation-world premiere." Read
more
Maloney receives
prestigious air racing award Ed Maloney couldn't stand by watching combat airplanes
become nothing more than scrap metal after World War II. So he did
the only imaginable thing. 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
A turned-around
design At some point in the
development of any technology there is a time before which the
conventions of all future designs are established and possibly even
known. The Santos-Dumont 14 Bis is certainly a design that falls
into the before-conventional period for airplane design. On display
here at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2006 is one of three recently
constructed replicas of the 1906 design. Read
more
Sport pilots can fly at
AirVenture under ultralight procedures Sport pilots who have not yet received the ground and
flight training required for operating at towered airports will be
able to fly to and from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh this week only, under
a temporary exemption granted by the FAA last Thursday. The
exemption requires sport pilots operating in the Oshkosh Class D
airspace to stay within the AirVenture ultralight traffic pattern or
follow the Ultralight/Homebuilt Rotorcraft Arrival/Departure
Procedures contained in the FAA's AirVenture 2006 Oshkosh notice to
airmen (NOTAM). This exemption is valid only through Sunday, August
30. Read
more
Barnes Sargent's stories
hook readers on aviation thrills In 2003, she received the "Lady Antiquer of the Year
Award" from the Antique Aircraft Association in recognition of her
aviation writing about antique and vintage aircraft. Read
more
At NASA exhibit,
what goes up must... well... go up It takes a lot of
crane to lift a three-and-a-half-ton space shuttle main engine up
from its trailer, and the laws of physics must be understood to tip
up even a scale model of the planned Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle
(CLV) rocket combination. Rising about 24 feet over the ramp in
front of the NASA building, the Ares I stack is only 1/15 the size
of the envisioned real thing. That real thing is still in the early
stages of its development. Read
more
Fill 'er up with
an All-Star Those using Orion Flight Services to top
off their fuel tanks at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh this year just might
meet an all-star. A Chevron All-Star, that is. This year, Chevron
brought in some of its top people from throughout its national
network of 750 FBOs to operate its state-of-the-art fuel trucks
covering the convention. Throughout the week, up to 17 All-Stars
will be running the fueling trucks out on the field. Read
more
New exhibit makes AirVenture museum an air, space
museum SpaceShipOne was a favorite of aviation
enthusiasts at last year's fly-in convention—they got to see the
world's first successful civilian-built spacecraft, winner of the
$10 million Ansari X Prize up-close and watch it fly. Read
more
It's a much bigger
Beaver Since 1984, Forrest Klies' de
Havilland Beaver has been a fixture in the Classic camping area. But
it won't be there this year. Read
more
Cessna's join mass
arrival tradition Bonanzas do it. Mooneys do it. And
now Cessnas do it, too. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the
C-172, 50 Cessnas staged their first group arrival at EAA AirVenture
2006 on Saturday, landing in between the annual Bonanzas To Oshkosh
and the Mooney Caravan arrivals. Read
more
Why Oshkosh brings
us all together I have been expecting it. And it's
happened. Gulfstream is exhibiting at Oshkosh with its new midsize
business jet, the G150. The premier maker of large cabin business
jets has recognized what homebuilders knew 50 years ago—every
aviation enthusiast is interested in every type of airplane. Read
more
Around the
Field North 40 filling up...it's a family thing...the
well-qualified formation pilot...and, not your typical father-son
flying story. Read
more
Warbirds of America and FAA work together to "keep 'em
flying" Officials from the FAA's
Flight Standards Office and members of the Warbirds of America (WOA)
Governmental Affairs Committee will meet Monday at EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh to update each other on programs and issues associated with
the operation of vintage and surplus military aircraft. Read
more
Chelton Flight Systems to
receive Raspet Award Gordon
Pratt and Ricardo Price of Chelton Flight Systems will receive the
EAA August Raspet Award tonight for helping to make flying safer at
a presentation at Theater in the Woods. Read
more
Danny Clisham to receive
2006 Bill Barber Award With
more than 40 years behind the air show announcer's microphone, Danny
Clisham has become one of the most recognizable voices heard in the
aviation world. With his signature white suit and boutonničre, he is
the ultimate showman. Read
more
Light jets
everywhere Many attending EAA
AirVenture Oshkosh 2006 have a keen interest in the growing
light-sport aircraft (LSA) market. And no one can refute the fact
that LSA certification, and now, general availability, has changed
forever the face of sport and general aviation. Read
more
Ask
Tom EAA members and attendees who
have questions regarding aviation, AirVenture or EAA, feel free to
drop them off at the AirVenture Today office just north of the
control tower, or e-mail asktom_airventure@hotmail.com
and Tom will attempt to answer them. Read
more
EAA president welcomes you to
AirVenture
