We Leave THIS Friday To Prepare The Way For OSH14!

OK... we're starting the final organizational run prior to our departure for Oshkosh 2014... more than a week ahead of the event so that we have time to prep for this year.

This is going to be a monumental year for us... after the cold 'winter' of the Cirrus (still the most despicable company in GA, I'm sorry to say) war and back to getting our SERIOUS game faces back on; ANN, Aero-TV, Airborne and our book company are coming out in FORCE.

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the XPRIZE win, we're debuting my book 'Beyond The Blue', as well as putting on a presentation Tuesday night at Theater In the Woods to celebrate. There will be a number of book-signings (with EAA and Sportys--time/places TBA next week), not to mention producing AIRBORNE updates every day and cranking out the hundreds of stories you all expect from ANN. And then some...

We have BIG announcements coming... a MAJOR upgrade for AIRBORNE... a HUGE Aero-TV project that may turn out to be the most important project we've ever envisioned... the first edition of what will become our FREE Annual Oshkosh YEARBOOK/EBook, some extraordinary new partnerships, and the start of a REAL upgrade in the ANN mission, appearance, reader/viewer toolset, and (more than) a few other surprises.

It will have its low moments... it will be the first-ever Oshkosh I have encountered without Paul Poberezny (the first being my inaugural Oshkosh at the tender age of 16 years-old). It will be a staggering five years since I sat in the grass with Vicki and chatted one last time before her loss just days later... and it will be filled with the memories of long-gone friends who used to make Oshkosh the greatest of re-unions. But I suppose the bittersweet aspect of any endeavor is just one way one way we have of accentuating our joys, as we encounter them.

And so, it will still be one of the most joyous times of the year... the chance to inhale deeply of all things aviation, re-engage in the faith we share in the brother(and sister)hood of flight, dream a little of things we hope for, and make plans to work ever harder for an even better future for the world of aviation.

And best of all, for me anyway, it will be my wife's first Oshkosh... and her chance to see what all the fuss is REALLY about. Masako has waited for this for years, and I can't wait to see Oshkosh through her eyes.

Well... yay for that... but if we're REALLY going to the do the best job we can, we need YOUR input.

• What do we need to concentrate on?

• How do we (further) raise our game?

• What can we do even better than ever before?

• What have we been missing?

• What do YOU expect from us and how can we produce it for YOU?

There are over 30 ANN staff and stringers coming to Oshkosh this year... and they DO NOT just work for me... They work (most of all) for YOU...

So tell me this... how do WE give YOU what you want from Oshkosh?

YOU you have my full and undivided attention... lay it on me!

FMI: How Can We Bring YOU Our Best-Ever Coverage of Oshkosh 2014?