Good morning. My name is Randy Babbitt, and my EAA membership number is 814406. When it comes to making a difference, EAA never does anything small. Look around. 10,000 airplanes. 500,000 visitors. If you’re asking me, there’s nothing quite like tailgating in the shadow of a 172 or a J-3. If you want to see […]
FAA Administrator Visits AirVenture
FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt made the rounds at AirVenture 2009 on Wednesday. Babbitt, shown in the photo at right in the blue shirt and cap took time to visit with airshow attendees. See more photos in the SAJ Photo Gallery. Attachment:
Oshkosh 2009 Photo Gallery
Visit the photo gallery for photo updates from EAA AirVenture, Oshkosh 2009. Attachment:
Aero LEDs Introduces Product Line at AirVenture
AirVenture 2009 – Monday Aero LEDs company founders hosted the media at a working lunch to introduce their full product line of LED aircraft lighting solutiions. Nate Calvin, CEO (pictured on right) introduced his team and the products. More information can be found on the company’s website at www.AeroLEDs.com. Attachment:
NASAO, AirVenture Attendees Experience Change
Change was certainly a theme at the opening of this year’s AirVenture 2009 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Sometimes the more familiar we are with something the more difficult change can be, but that didn’t seem to be the case with early attendees. Monday’s crowd seemed to flow smoothly through the new entrance gate and down the […]
Lindbergh Foundation’s Film Over Africa! Low and Slow with the Kenya Wildlife Service, To Be Featured At AirVenture 2009
Film Depicts How Aviation Supports the Environment Minneapolis, Minn. (July 26, 2009) — The Lindbergh Foundation will show its new film, Over Africa! Low and Slow with the Kenya Wildlife Service, at the Theater in the Woods at 8:15 p.m. on Tuesday, July 28. The film documents the training of 12 Kenya Wildlife Service […]
Lindbergh Grant in Aviation Awarded to Randall Fishman
Project to Focus on Electric Propulsion of a Two-Seat Aircraft MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. (July 27, 2009) — The Lindbergh Foundation announced today that Randall Fishman, of Cliffside Park, N.J., has been awarded a 2009 Lindbergh Grant in Aviation for his project entitled, “Using Electric Propulsion in a Two-Seat Aircraft to Make Extended Flight Economical and […]
Pots of Gold Stir Early Attendees to AirVenture 2009
If rainbows are a harbinger of good luck, AirVenture 2009 should sail into the week in excellent shape. On Sunday, the day before the kick-off of this year’s event, several rain showers blew through Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin leaving vivid rainbows in their wake. Attendees scrambled to get photographs of the pot of […]
Statement by FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt on the First Regional Airline Safety Forum
Today we held the first meeting in what will be a series of 12 nationwide regional airline safety forums to reduce risk at regional airlines. I’m pleased to report that airlines and unions are responding positively to the recent Call to Action from Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and me to push safety initiatives forward […]
EAA AIRVENTURE 2009: THE WORLD’S GREATEST AVIATION CELEBRATION KICKS OFF JULY 27
Aviation innovation and heritage showcased throughout upgraded grounds EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. – (July 20, 2009) – Just one week remains until EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration, kicks off its July 27-August 2 run at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh. The 57th annual convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) […]
















