EAA News

News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh

• $60,000 Electric Flight Prize Challenges EAA Community
  EAA is offering a $60,000 prize to help speed development in electronic flight technology. The award will be given to the individual or corporation that can demonstrate the most promising level of achievement in electric-powered flight at AirVenture 2011.
  
  
• Young Eagles Pilots, Kids Active at AirVenture
  You can always count on AirVenture to showcase the latest innovations and preview what lies ahead in the future of flight. The future on display, however, wasn't only the newest gadgets and gizmos.
  
  
• Young Eagles Raffle Winner Gladly Makes Extra Trip to Oshkosh
  Don Van Cura Sr. is now the proud owner of a 2010 Ford Mustang Convertible, thanks to the Young Eagles raffle held during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2010. Last Friday, he drove up from Chicago, Illinois, with his wife Sonia and daughter Raquel so that EAA could hand over the keys.
  
  
• AVT duo records North 40, follow up to 2006's AirVenture Blues
  AirVenture Today's James Wynbrandt and Ric Reynolds do a lot of writing about AirVenture for the daily newspaper during AirVenture Oshkosh. Over the years they have noted their observations and sometimes have converted them into prose.
  
  
• Videos prove popular part of AirVenture experience
  Visitors to AirVenture Live were very active this year in the video section as an average of 40,000 video plays were logged each day.
  
  
• 2010 Aircraft Award Winners
  EAA recognizes workmanship and innovation through the annual Aircraft Awards. The awards are given to aircraft that submit to judging in several categories including Custom Built, Antique, Classic, Contemporary, Warbirds, Rotorcraft, Seaplane, and Ultralights.
  
  
• AirVenture finishes strong
  When EAA Chairman/President Tom Poberezny took to the podium Sunday afternoon for his annual wrap-up briefing, he had the relieved look of a man who just won a 15 round prizefight with a challenging opponent.
  
  
• Full Circle: AirVenture ends with sun and good 'ol airplane noise
  Full circle, from the damp and dank to the warm sunshine, and back to damp again, but then some sun on the final day.
  
  
• EAA Radio covered it all and everyone listened
  In its 16th year EAA Radio's 45 volunteers were very busy through the eight days of live AirVenture programming. Broadcast locally on 93.3 FM and on the Internet, 8,000 people listened to the webstream for an average of 23 minutes.
  
  
• Focus shifting to 2011
  With one of the most challenging Oshkosh conventions ever near an end, let's all catch our collective breath and start thinking about 2011!