In celebration of National Aviation Day, Skies is sharing this exclusive photo feature highlighting this year’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.
By Skies Magazine | August 19, 2021
Estimated reading time 4 minutes, 9 seconds.
The world-famous EAA AirVenture Oshkosh was by all counts an overwhelming success this summer, following a cancelled 2020 event due to the global pandemic.
The annual aviation celebration — held in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) from July 26 to Aug. 1 — drew crowds totaling approximately 608,000 people, marking only the third time that attendance surpassed 600,000. And even with international travel restrictions still in place around the world, folks from 66 countries were still able to attend.
Skies Magazine was happy to cover the event, along with over 560 media representatives from four continents.
Jeff Boerboon’s impressive “Yak-110” is two Yak-55 aerobatic aircraft matted together with a GE J-85 attached. The combination of the mixed jet and twin radial engines is an impressive sound. The power produced allows the Yak-110 to not only hover like a helicopter, but also accelerate up from the hover. Eric Dumigan PhotoA U.S. Air Force (USAF) EC-130 taxiing into Boeing Plaza at Oshkosh. The EC-130J Commando Solo conducts psychological and information operations and was part of a large display of USAF Special Operations Command Aircraft. Eric Dumigan PhotoA modified SNJ-6 depicts a Curtiss P-36 Hawk in the Commemorative Air Force Tora Tora Tora act. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, five P-36 Hawks managed to get airborne. Eric Dumigan PhotoSkip Stewart, recipient of the 2013 Bill Barber Award for Showmanship and the 2015 Art Scholl Award, makes his trademark knife-edge pass in his modified Pitts S2-S named “Prometheus.” Eric Dumigan PhotoAn F/A-18F Super Hornet from U.S. Navy Air Test and Evaluation Squadron VX-9 (Vampires) making a burner pass on arrival at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. Mike Killian PhotoThe gear is seen retracting on the Canadian-based International Test Pilots School’s Grumman HU-16 Albatross as it departs Oshkosh to visit Lake Winnebago for water work and a flypast at Oshkosh’s seaplane base. Eric Dumigan PhotoPhotographer Mike Killian planned and coordinated an exclusive aerial/video shoot at Oshkosh with the U.S. Navy’s Growler Legacy Team from VAQ-129. Here, two E/A-18 Growlers joined their legacy counterpart: Jim Tobul flying his vintage F4U-4 Corsair “Korean War Hero.” Killian’s pilot was Scott Farnsworth from QYON Aero Sports, flying his L-39 Reno race jet as photo chase. Mike Killian Photo
By Skies Magazine | August 19, 2021
