Air Shows & Events
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Oshkosh 1998 Image Gallery:
Day Six – Sunday, August 2
Day One (Tuesday) Day Two (Wednesday) Day Three (Thursday) Day Four (Friday) Day Five (Saturday) Day Six (Sunday) Day Seven (Monday) Day Six – August 2, 1998 Click on the image for a larger High Resolution Image. Today’s Airshow How come it’s never like this when I want to take a shower? Can I shoot […]
AVweb’s Oshkosh 1998 Coverage Team: Staff and Contributors
Carl Marbach – Publisher Mike Busch – Editor-in-Chief Bob Kaputa – Managing Editor Doug Ritter – News Editor Jennifer Whitley – Copy Editor Randy Jenkins – Graphic Artist Liz Swaine – Newswriter John Deakin – Columnist Howard Fried – Columnist Michael Maya Charles – Columnist Walter Atkinson – Contributor Brent Blue, M.D. – Contributor Ann […]
Oshkosh Travelogue
There wasn’t enough time to prepare, but it didn’t matter. I was going to make the trip to Oshkosh, no matter what. Business and family demands created the near-impossible situation where I had a half-day to gather camping gear, aviation gear, food, and then to pack it all in a way that would fit in […]
Who Are Those People with the Orange Paddles?
You have just worked your way through the excitement of the Ripon arrival, wrestled the airplane to a landing in the strong, gusty crosswinds at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 1998, and rolled out onto the grass as directed by the controller, only to come face to face with someone wearing an orange vest and waving two […]
Gunfight at the OSH Corral
I was in the middle of cooking spaghetti the othernight when the phone rang. It was Patty Wagstaff, the first ladyof Aviation! “So what did he have to say?,” she quicklyblurted out. Patty was referring to the fact that I had interviewedher arch rival, Sean D. Tucker, earlier that day about their upcomingaerobatics showdown at […]
Sea(Plane Base) of Tranquility
Thereis a reasonably well-known annex to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh which relatively few peopletake the time to visit. The seaplane base. As a result, it is a refuge, a place of sanityaway from the frenetic pace of the main venue on Wittman Regional Airport. Even theapproach for someone coming by bus or car from the main […]
