{"id":13238,"date":"2019-07-02T02:05:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T02:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=13238"},"modified":"2019-07-02T02:05:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T02:05:38","slug":"ups-aircraft-to-help-eaa-airventure-oshkosh-celebrate-50th-anniversary-of-boeing-747","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/wisconsin\/ups-aircraft-to-help-eaa-airventure-oshkosh-celebrate-50th-anniversary-of-boeing-747\/%20","title":{"rendered":"UPS Aircraft to Help EAA AirVenture Oshkosh Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Boeing 747"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Photo above by Jim Koepnick<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPS is bringing one of the world\u2019s most iconic commercial\naircraft, the Boeing 747, to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh to celebrate the airplane\nmodel\u2019s 50th year in flight. The year this revolutionary aircraft took to the\nsky also marked the same year that the world\u2019s largest fly-in convention, EAA\nAirVenture, declared its permanent home in Oshkosh, WI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With over 10,000 aircraft and more than 600,000 people\nattending, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh will once again transform Wittman Regional\nAirport into the world\u2019s busiest airport from July 22-28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 16 percent more cargo capacity than the previous\nlargest UPS aircraft, the 747-400, the 747-8F is the largest plane UPS has ever\nflown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 747-8F will be flying in to AirVenture on Tuesday, July\n23 and remain on the grounds through Thursday, July 25.&nbsp; The nose of the aircraft will be open and\ntours will be available with UPS staff and flight crew members on board to\nfurther educate attendees about the features and functions of Boeing\u2019s newest\n747 model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is our third year bringing aircraft to\nAirVenture, and we\u2019re very happy to participate and give back to the aviation\ncommunity that&#8217;s treated us so well.&#8221; said Dennis Faulk, director of\nground services and airline flight operations at UPS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UPS 747-8F will make its grand exit from the AirVenture\ngrounds at the conclusion of Thursday\u2019s airshow with a high speed pass over the\nWittman Regional Airport flightline, then depart to begin delivering cargo to\nmore than 770 destinations around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo above by Jim Koepnick UPS is bringing one of the world\u2019s most iconic commercial aircraft, the Boeing 747, to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh to celebrate the airplane model\u2019s 50th year in flight. The year this revolutionary aircraft took to the sky also marked the same year that the world\u2019s largest fly-in convention, EAA AirVenture, declared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wisconsin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cathay-Pacific-747-8-landing-2016-Koepnick_Jimedit-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13240,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13238\/revisions\/13240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}