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Panchito. Oshkosh 2024

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Snake Bite by Niall Grant Via Flickr: USAF A-10 Demo team's snake A-10 at Oshkosh.

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A beautiful 1943 Douglas C-47A "Miss Virginia" arriving at Wittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh

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Vought F4U-4 Corsair

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Wish I were there

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Tell us about the time you flew!

It was actually a recurring thing, but there's this program called Young Eagles hosted by the Experimental Aircraft Association, and what it is is they'll get pilots (often retirees) with their own small planes to volunteer their time and vehicle to take 8-17 year olds up for free and teach them to fly, in the interest of helping the younger generation get into aviation.

Anyway, there was a chapter within driving distance of my hometown. So every few months when they had a meetup my dad would drive my sister and me out, and the pilots would actually go and take us up in their planes, and depending on how many kids there were you'd either get to copilot or you'd be a passenger. And so over the course of my involvement with this program I actually learned all the skills you need to pilot a small plane, from ground checks to takeoffs to landings to actually steering the thing in midair and reading the instruments and whatnot.

If you or any younger family members have any interest in aviation, I really do have to recommend you try to find out if there's an EAA chapter near you. Everyone I met as part of Young Eagles was incredibly cool. I also know at least some chapters also have similar programs for adults, if you're no longer a kid but still want to learn how to fly a plane.

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Last summer, longtime warbird pilot Paul Barnett, EAA Lifetime 456283, nearly lost his right leg while working on an airplane and the engine unexpectedly fired. A little more than a year later, he flew this Corsair into EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024.

“The Lord was with me, my wife protected me, I had zero infection, I exceeded all expectations. My family and AirVenture family just prayed and reached out, and the Lord above just protected me.”

@EAA via X

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Missing EAA today so I thought I’d share this video from their official TikTok

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Lavinia breaking her curse is one of the best scenes in her route.

I think this scene gets overlooked too much because it is one of the most important scenes for her character development. The entire point of the curse on her lips is because she's so upset about the knight leaving and about her and the knight's love story only be a curse Titania used to get information from her that she curses herself so that anyone who kisses her will obey her. This is also one of the first ripple effects of it being revealed that the knight never loved her and that it was all a trick by Titania.

The incident with the knight runs so deeply for Lavinia, for good reason. It was her happy ending after taking over the ice kingdom, struggling for so long to claw her way to a position where she could live comfortably and then this knight comes along, they fall in love, and it's a typical happily ever after. Except this one isn't. It's probably one of the cruelest tricks a villain pulls on one of our love interest characters.

Lavinia is freshly broken-hearted (literally, the knight runs off with her heart) in pain and shock from everything that just revealed itself to her and suddenly she curses herself out of anger and hurt. She's left alone and she's so distraught by that. So she makes a way so she never has to be alone again, by keeping people with her against their will. However, we also learn Lavinia immediately regretted this, probably not wanting to be similar to Titania, and made the choice to never kiss anyone since the knight because she didn't want to use this ability.

The curse stems from this idea of Lavinia wanting to control the relationship, control that the person she loves will stay. It's not a healthy mindset and is directly connected to the PTSD she suffers from the knight incident. But before her curse is lifted, she tells FMC that her life was made better by her and that even if they separated, FMC would always hold a special place in her heart.

SHE LETS FMC GO. She relinquishes power and control in that instance so that if FMC walked away from her, she would choose to honor the time they spent together rather than try to control FMC being with her. It's the biggest instance of us seeing Lavinia give up control over a situation, something we ALWAYS see her fighting for, and it's one of the biggest instances of the influence FMC has over her. In the biggest Fairy Tale fashion, Lavinia breaks her curse because she learns to let the people she loves have the freedom to leave or be with her on their own accord and not on her whims.

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Airventure 2023!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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So many miis

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Oshkosh 2024

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EAA2023Fri-0042 North American P-51C Mustang Tuskegee Airmen 42-103645 NX61429 by kurtsj00

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1945 Goodyear FG-1D Corsair - Oshkosh 2023

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F-35 Lightning II

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Tricolore