The Experimental Aircraft Association's 62nd version of AirVenture, the world's largest fly-in, begins tomorrow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The week-long event draws thousands of aviators, exhibitors, and airplanes as well as 500,000 or so visitors.
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| Wittman Regional Airport at the height of AirVenture 2011 |
I had the privilege of attending this event several times in the last decade of my career. Exhausting, energizing, informative, and significant, the show was a great vehicle for delivering an organizational message to a large, captured, and enthusiastic audience. At the same time it was like turning a kid loose in a candy store.
The map below gives readers an idea of the scope and scale of Oshkosh and indicates why the event turns a rather sleepy airport into the busiest airport in the world for one week each year.
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| For scale, the runway at the top of the map is 8000 feet long |
If any readers have the slightest interest in an aviation theme, EAA's AirVenture needs to be in your travel plans. If you can't be there tomorrow, the event maintains a comprehensive website with several webcams, live coverage, and a host of other links. We have plans to visit the Upper Midwest in the coming years and you can bet that visit will be planned around AirVenture.
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