#EAA AirVenture

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A great Heritage Formation in the air at Oshkosh featuring a 1953 F-86F Sabre

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Republic P-47D Thunderbolt "Bonnie" Taken: 7/26/24

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Noticed a particularly touching detail in the Warbird section of EAA AirVenture yesterday, July 24. And I’m not going to lie, I got a little emotional.

All of the wheel chocks being used in the warbirds area were painted drab green with white bars ends and white stenciled text. On one side was stenciled the words “FIGHTERTOWN” accompanied by two little silhouettes of P-51 Mustangs

The other said “REMEMBERING SNORT”

Dale “Snort” Snodgrass is a legend in aviation, “one of the most highly regarded military pilots” and “one of the best fighter pilots of all time.”

Snort will forever hold the record for the most hours in the F-14 Tomcat with a total of 4800 hours out of his total 8000 flight hours over the span of his highly-decorated 27-year naval career. He both attended and taught at TOPGUN, was the commanding officer of a Fighter Squadron, and was an F-14 Tomcat Demonstration Pilot for 10 years.

If you don’t know of Snort, you might know of this famous picture of an F-14 Tomcat being piloted by Snort.

The plane is on its side for a high-speed, low-level pass with the wings fully extended and the wingtips below the level of the flight deck of the USS America all while in full afterburner. Don’t worry, despite what you might hear this “banana pass” was both planned and approved.

After he retired from active duty he returned to the air show circuit, flying in over 850 airshows before his death.

On July 24, 2021, Snort was killed when his SIAI-Marchetti SM. 1019 crashed while taking off at an airshow in Idaho. We will forever keep him in our hearts and minds. His spirit lives on in every plane that crosses into an Airshow box.

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Tricolore

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Vintage VW bugs working ground control at the 2017 EAA Airventure in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. http://www.powerpacknation.com

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Car Spot: EarthRoamer LTi

This week's spot will make someone a happy camper, the EarthRoamer LTi.

Taking camping to a whole new level Every year I camp on the grounds at EAA’s AirVenture, this year July 22-28, with a group of my flying buddies. We do pretty well with our campers and bunkhouse but this year I found something that would be over the top, this week’s spot, the EarthRoamer LTi. The person standing at the driver’s side door puts the vehicle’s size in perspective. According to…

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No injuries reported after plane makes emergency landing in Wisconsin

No injuries or property damage was reported after an emergency landing in a farm field.

Wausau Pilot & Review A 28-year-old Georgia pilot was uninjured Sunday after making an emergency landing in a farm field in Dodge County, sheriff’s officials said. The man was traveling back to Georgia from the EAA show in Oshkosh when he began losing power to his single-engine plane, officials said. The pilot of a second plane traveling with the disabled aircraft also landed safely in the…

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OSHKOSH. STARTS. *slams fist on table* NOW.

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PBJ, Oshkosh 2023

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De Havilland Canada CC-138 Twin Otter Taken: 7/26/24

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

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Posting some stuff from Monday at airventure

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

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Car Spot: Willys MB Jeep

It was given a Purple Heart in WWII. The Willys MB Jeep is this week's spot.

One of three decisive weapons the U.S. had during WWII It was almost a case of being in the right place at the right time. America had just been pulled into WWII. Our boys needed a vehicle lighter than the 3/4 ton Dodge trucks used then. The idea of the jeep originated with the infantry, which needed a low-profile, powerful vehicle with four-wheel drive. It was turned over to commercial…

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Authorities identify victims of fatal plane crash near the site of an air show in Wisconsin

The plane crashed Monday about 2 miles (3 kilometers) south of the site of the EAA AirVenture air show at Oshkosh’s Wittman Regional Airport.

NEKIMI, Wis. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man and a man from New York have been preliminarily identified as the victims of a fatal plane crash near the site of an airshow in eastern Wisconsin. The bodies of Sean Tommervik, 37, of Philadelphia, and James G. Sullivan, 32, of Brooklyn, were found Monday in the wreckage in a farm field, the Winnebago County sheriff’s office said Wednesday in a…