Fri, Aug 12, 2005
Living History Exhibit Scheduled For Later This Month
Experience the early days of air
travel at EAA's "Good Ol' Days" living history weekend on August
20-21 at Pioneer Airport in Oshkosh. The fifth annual event
features a variety of family-friendly activities that will bring
the excitement and adventure of early flight back to life.
The 2005 event is bigger and better than ever before, thanks to
financial support from the Wisconsin State Department of Tourism.
There are opportunities to meet costumed actors dressed in period
clothing, learn the skills and folklore of old-time aviation, see
incredible vintage airplanes take to the skies, and fly in a
vintage aircraft!
Some of the weekend's highlights:
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Hear pilots describe what its like to soar
through the air in a vintage aircraft.
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Visit a vintage Air Mail station and have your
letter flown in an authentic 1927 mail plane.
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Send a telegram using Morse Code.
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Watch demonstrations showing how airplanes of the
1920s were started by hand, swinging a large wooden
propeller.
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See skilled craftsmen at work restoring a 1930
Monocoupe airplane.
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Ride in one of eight different vintage
automobiles provided by volunteers.
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Visit the Children's Activity Center, a one-stop
destination for indoor and outdoor games, contests and other fun
activities from the 1920s and '30s.
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Watch the opening of a time capsule buried under
Pioneer Airport in the 1920s.
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Attendees will also have the opportunity to meet
Captain John Miller, who has held his pilot's license since 1923,
as well as experience the adventure of early aviation first-hand
with a ride on a real vintage airplane.
Weather permitting, dozens of
antique airplanes will fly in to Good Ol' Days from around the
Midwest. Lunch service will be available 1100 - 1300 each
day, in the EAA Air Academy Lodge, adjacent to Pioneer Airport.
The EAA AirVenture Museum is located just off Highway 41 at the
Highway 44 exit in Oshkosh. The Museum is open Monday through
Saturday from 0830 to 1700 and on Sundays from
1000 to 1700. EAA members receive free museum admission
year-round and family memberships are available.
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