July 25, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
This month’s meeting will be a livestream from the EAA AirVenture warbirds flight line at noon CDT on Thursday 25 July, hosted by Jim Bell. Note the much earlier than usual time for the live stream.
AirVenture is the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual fly-in and convention, the biggest aviation event in the world. About 100,000 people attend each day for a week, and about 10,000 airplanes of all kinds fly in. Last year’s visitors included a Boeing 747 Dreamlifter, a Super Guppy, a Lockheed U-2R, and every kind of civil aircraft you could imagine. Jim will take a walk through the warbirds area, and bring you along (and if you happen to be in Oshkosh that day, you’re welcome to come along in person). Registration for this meeting is required at CAHS-MB. Our meetings are free and open to CAHS members and everyone interested in Canadian aviation history.
In addition to being an enormous fly-in and a seven-day (and two-night) airshow, AirVenture features speakers, hundreds of them, on a huge variety of aviation topics, from aircraft homebuilding techniques, to regulatory issues, safe flying, and aviation history.
Jim will also give two presentations at the EAA Canadian Council tent, the first on RCAF history, and the second on the history of the Snowbirds. CAHS will try to Zoomcast these two presentations.
The History of the RCAF presentation will cover its history from the earliest days of military flight in Canada, all the way to modern times. It will take place at 3:15 pm CDT on Monday 22 July.
The Snowbirds air demonstration team is performing at AirVenture on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, so at 2 pm on Thursday 25 July, Jim will present the History of the Snowbirds, covering the team, the squadron, and the aircraft.
For all of these presentations, please register using our form no later than 11 pm SUNDAY the presentation you want to attend. Because I won’t have my normal computer setup, I won’t be able to add last-minute registrants. If you want to attend but you’re not sure you can make it, register anyway.
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