As CEO of the Light Aircraft Association, I typically visit around a dozen or more fly-ins, airshows and other events each summer. So, what did I do for my annual holiday this year? You guessed it: a week-long trip to the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture show at Oshkosh at the end of July. Yes, I must be mad, but after returning from my first visit, I could muster but one description. As our American friends would say, "awesome" Set in an otherwise somewhat obscure part of the American Mid-West, Oshkosh's Wittman Field and its surrounding flying sites hosted more than 10,000 aircraft during the seven-day event. The total number of 'showplanes', as opposed to visitors and those with owners camped under their wings, was 3,226, including 1,375 registered in the vintage aircraft parking, plus 1,156 homebuilts and 369 warbirds.
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