EAA (Experimental Aircraft Assocation) AirVenture 2008
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Entrance to the EAA AirVenture 2008
My husband and I recently treated our kids (and ourselves) to the EAA AirVenture 2008 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It was a lot more exciting than your average weekend family outing. The day we went, it was waaaay too hot to walk through the entire grounds. Buy the time we reached the Warbirds area, we were melting. Luckily, a storm blew past in the afternoon to cool us down, so we stayed to see most of the air show… which, by the way, was fantastic.
They call the EAA AirVenture “The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration”, and they’re not kidding. There was so much to see and do that it was almost overwhelming. We missed some things including the museum, but it didn’t really matter. There were plenty of vendor exhibits, aircrafts on display, demonstrations, videos, workshops, and the like to keep a person busy for days. For $40 you could even go on a helicopter ride, and $55 would get you on a Tri-Motor flight. B17 rides were available for a whopping $425. (more…)