It's Summertime... And That Means That Oshkosh Is Right Around
The Corner!!
A few weeks ago, ANN's Paul Plack had the chance to sit down
amid all the chaos of the spring airshow season and have a
one-on-one chat with EAA Prez, Tom Poberezny... they covered some
interesting topics... Homebuilding, the 51% Rule, and course,
OSHKOSH 2008.
For those of you leading VERY sheltered lives, Tom Poberezny was
first elected president of EAA in 1989. Since that time, EAA claims
that membership in the organization has increased 40 percent, to
170,000 members worldwide.
An accomplished aviator in his own right, Poberezny was a member
of the U.S. National Unlimited Aerobatic Team that captured the
World Championship in 1972. The following year, he won the U.S.
National Unlimited Aerobatic Championship. He subsequently flew for
25 years as one wing of the legendary Eagles Aerobatic Team
(originally the Red Devils), the most successful civilian precision
flying team in history.
During his career with EAA, Poberezny has overseen a number of
the organization’s milestone events. In the late 1970s he
spearheaded EAA’s first major capital campaign, which
supported construction of the current EAA Aviation Center
headquarters and museum complex at Wittman Regional Airport in
Oshkosh, Wis.
In 1992, he led the creation of EAA’s Young Eagles, which
has become the most successful aviation youth program in history.
Realizing the importance of mentoring to the future of aviation,
EAA aimed to give one million kids between the ages of 8 and 17 an
airplane flight by the centennial of powered flight on Dec. 17,
2003. The one millionth Young Eagle was flown in October 2003,
celebrating the efforts of 85,000 EAA volunteers to reach the goal.
The Young Eagles Program continues to fly 100,000 young people
annually.
One of Poberezny’s most demanding roles has been chairman
of the annual EAA AirVenture Fly-In Convention for more than 25
years. During that time, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, as it is now
known, has grown to be the world’s largest annual aviation
event, attracting an attendance of 750,000 from 68 nations and
10,000 airplanes for one spectacular week every summer.
Let's See What Tom Poberezny Has On His Mind As He
Chats With Aero-TV
About Aero-TV: It's DEFINITELY Show
Time!!!!
OK, folks, so far, so good... earlier this year
we initiated the first feature programming series for
Aero-TV... we decided to take it slow, but we also tried
a steady approach to building the aviation world's most
innovative news and information service. We hope you
understand that this is the most complex media program we've
ever undertaken and what you're seeing is just the tip of the
iceberg... but from here on out, we will be doing our best to
educate, inform, and entertain YOU about all aspects of the
exciting worlds of aviation and aerospace.
And yes, there is MUCH MORE to come... and soon.
If you've been an observer of the media and associated media
industries over the last few years, it's not hard to mistake the
fact that a massive revolution is taking place. Old sources for
news and information are falling by the wayside, having to change
their modus operandi or risk obsolescence (or extinction).
Electronic media and print media are both under the assault of
progress, and the online world has been a cornerstone for
revolutionary change.
Part of this amazing process is the fact that we're been
building and planning a massive new organization within ANN. That
said,
we're hiring talented new people as fast as we can find
them (a far more difficult task than we had
imagined -- REALLY good people are hard to find), and we're
brainstorming at speeds that would make a deorbiting Space Shuttle
feel like a slug. Suffice it to say that we wanted to do this
right, rather than right-now, and that the development of this
program has been the most carefully pursued undertaking we've ever
undertaken.
E-I-C Note: The
complete feature shown above is embedded in this
story, with most of the slick and useful functionality
otherwise available on the main Aero-TV
site (which will be upgraded
aggressively over the next few weeks). The ability to embed a
video on another web page is but one of the hundreds of
amazing little features that we've worked hard on, for many months
now, to implement in different phases of the initial release
of Aero-TV. It is, BY NO MEANS, the only way to enjoy unaltered
Aero-TV programming on other parts of the web... as we have
extensive plans for future functionality, but this feature
allows those with an interest in a specific Aero-TV News or Feature
program to embed it on a different web site, though we must
note that we reserve the right to forbid such use for those sites
or purposes that we do not feel fit in with the proper mission of
the Aero-News Network, Inc.
Webmasters or Administrators of well-trafficked aviation or
aerospace related sites, are welcome to contact the Publisher to
start conversations on how they may be able to leverage some of the
immense power of Aero-TV programming for their sites and
constituency by clicking the
I Want Aero-TV For
MY Website! link.
Coming Soon!
Aero-TV Sees What It Takes to "Compete" As An
AMT, Looks At The FAA FAASTeam Program, Updates On The Garmin
495, Flying The Piper Matrix, Gets Some GREAT Rotax
Lessons, Gets Updated On ALL Things Lopresti, Has A FUN Chat With
Corkey Fornof, Checks Out The Latest in Life-Raft
Technologies, Checks Out More "HIGH" Tech at I/ITSEC
2007, Hears From AOPA On Critical Aviation Issues, Spills Some
Juicy (and HIGHLY Detailed) Cirrus G3 Info, Scores
A BUNCH of LSA Reports, and SO MUCH MORE!!!!! Do NOT Miss
Them!
ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (04.16.24)
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