Traffic Pattern
Jul 23, 2026
How to plan and fly a diversion to your alternate airport when the Oshkosh arrival closes - turn, estimate, and decide before you ever take off.
Pattern ATIS
Jul 23, 2026
Poland's first F-35, built in Italy at the Cameri FACO, completed its first flight - signaling Europe's growing role in fighter production and sustainment.
Tower The Hangar
Jul 23, 2026
How the Gates Flying Circus sold over a million Americans their first airplane ride for a dollar and launched the barnstorming era.
Taildragger Traffic Pattern
Jul 23, 2026
Learn to read the Graphical Forecasts for Aviation (GFA) with a four-question scan that turns the whole-sky weather map into a confident go/no-go decision.
Pattern Cleared Direct
Jul 23, 2026
How experimental homebuilt aircraft became the lab that made modern glass panels and autopilots cheap - then pushed them into certified cockpits.
Vector Traffic Pattern
Jul 23, 2026
When your engine quits on climbout, the deadliest mistake is turning back to the runway. Here's how to decide where you go before you ever take off.
Pattern Ramp Check
Jul 23, 2026
The unwritten rules of walking the Oshkosh flightline - from why you never touch a prop to why the lawn chairs face outward.
Ramp Traffic Pattern
Jul 23, 2026
How to use the FAA's PAVE checklist to catch dangerous risk stacks and beat the external pressures pushing you to launch for Oshkosh.
Pattern The Hangar
Jul 23, 2026
How the Piper J-3 Cub taught America to fly, went to war as the L-4 Grasshopper, and still swarms into Oshkosh every summer.
Taildragger ATIS
Jul 23, 2026
How to plan a safe departure from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh: read the FAA notice, fly your assigned track, and beat summer weather and fatigue.
Tower Ramp Check
Jul 23, 2026
The RAF's backcountry gravel bar exhibit at Oshkosh shows pilots how wild airstrips survive - and why keeping them open matters.
Ramp The Hangar
Jul 23, 2026
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was WWII's biggest single-engine fighter, and its massive airframe is exactly why it brought so many pilots home.
Taildragger Traffic Pattern
Jul 23, 2026
Learn the six elements of a standard weather briefing in order and how to build a solid go/no-go decision for your cross-country to Oshkosh.
Pattern The Hangar
Jul 23, 2026
The Stinson Reliant Gullwing is a 1930s luxury cabin monoplane whose distinctive double-tapered wing still draws crowds at Oshkosh.
Taildragger ATIS
Jul 23, 2026
The Senate Commerce Committee advanced S.1759 to end the 1973 ban on overland civil supersonic flight, tied to a no-boom standard.
Tower Cleared Direct
Jul 23, 2026
How WAAS turns free GPS into a precision LPV approach that brings ILS-quality minimums to small airports that never had an instrument landing system.
Vector ATIS
Jul 22, 2026
How to plan your Wednesday at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh - prioritize one-time events, decide your airshow strategy, and plan your departure early.
Tower ATIS
Jul 22, 2026
ALPA, NATCA, and the FAA jointly asked Congress for $20 billion to finish modernizing America's aging air traffic control system.
Tower ATIS
Jul 22, 2026
AOPA calls the working airplanes at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 'aviation performance art' - here's what that means and how to visit.
Tower The Hangar
Jul 22, 2026
How Benny Howard's homebuilt Mister Mulligan won both the 1935 Bendix and Thompson trophies - the only airplane ever to do it.
Taildragger