Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Attendees walk through the grounds at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2023 on Monday, July 24, 2023, in Oshkosh, Wis. ... “Generative AI for Aviation” is 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. at EAA Museum Hilton ...
One of Oshkosh’s biggest drawing cards seems to be a year-round attraction, as at least 60,000 people visited EAA’s aviation museum last year outside of the popular one-week AirVenture show in ...
EAA founder Paul Poberezny proposed the idea of the EAA Air Museum-Air Education center in August 1958. [2] In the late 1970s, his son, EAA president Tom Poberezny, led the campaign to build the current updated EAA museum and headquarters, which was officially opened in 1983. The EAA library has been open to EAA members since 1985.
The first EAA fly-in was held in September 1953 at what is now Timmerman Field as a small part of the Milwaukee Air Pageant, fewer than 150 people registered as visitors the first year and only a handful of airplanes attended the event. In 1959, the EAA fly-in grew too large for the Air Pageant and moved to Rockford, Illinois. [8]
The EAA grounds are slated to stage four events over the next two months, including the popular Oshkosh Celebration of Lights from Nov. 29 and its own annual Christmas in the Air open house Dec. 7.
During EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, two additional temporary runways are in operation to accommodate the high volume of traffic of numerous aircraft sizes and types: a portion of Taxiway A to the east of runway 18/36 becomes Runway 18L/36R (Runway 18/36 is re-designated 18R/36L and shortened to 6,700 feet) and a small grass runway (1,200 x 100 feet ...
Starlight Aerial Productions will have a 500-drone performance on two separate nights during EAA AirVenture.
The Gathering of Eagles is an annual fundraiser auction event to support the Young Eagles program. The organization hosts the event each year in the EAA AirVenture Museum during its EAA AirVenture Airshow. [13] Among items auctioned were a SR-71 themed "Blackbird" Ford Mustang donated by Ford Motor Company, Jack Roush, and EAA member Carroll ...