{"id":16014,"date":"2020-07-20T16:32:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=16014"},"modified":"2020-07-20T16:39:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:39:14","slug":"stories-of-airventure-a-perfect-only-at-oshkosh-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/stories-of-airventure-a-perfect-only-at-oshkosh-moment\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Stories of AirVenture: A Perfect Only at Oshkosh Moment!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For many years I would roll into Oshkosh, Wisconsin a few\ndays before the official start of AirVenture. I was able to work with my Dad to\nset up the NASAO booth and then take a minute to stroll around the grounds to\nsee what planes had arrived and then anticipate those that were still inbound. It\nwas always exciting traveling to Oshkosh and to play a part in setting up a\nbooth before the official show began. That experience always got me excited for\nthe week ahead. However, there\u2019s one year in particular that stands out a bit\nmore than the others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Stevens, left and Kim Stevens<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It was an overcast day on Sunday, the day before AirVenture,\nand even though my Dad and I went through the normal steps of setting up the\nbooth, getting our photo at the 2016 AirVenture sign, and then heading to the\nstore to get our traditional reward of Spotted Cow beer, it still took a minute\nbefore that moment arrived that really reminded me that this is Oshkosh. Don\u2019t\nget me wrong at all though, I was still full of excitement and anticipation for\nthe week, but for whatever reason I was still waiting for that one moment to\nremind me officially. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the nice things about renting a place just outside of\nWittman is that we had a great view of aircraft that were flying around in the\narea. Also, waking up every morning to the sound of warbirds flying by will\nalways be one of my happiest memories and one that is simply Oshkosh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Sunday night and my Dad and I had just finished our\nSpotted Cows. We were also working on the daily Skybrief for AirVenture. It was\nstill overcast outside and a pretty quiet evening overall as the sun was about\nto set for the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suddenly, it happened. We heard something very large flying\noverhead. My Dad and I rushed outside looking up toward nothing but clouds in\nthe sky. But as we kept out a watchful and hopeful eye that we would see\nsomething, we eventually did as an absolute giant of a red bird by the name of Martin\nMars came peeking out from within the clouds to say hello. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seeing the Martin Mars for the first time in person this way was such an amazing experience to see in that moment as the world\u2019s largest water bomber gracefully revealed itself from the clouds above. It was a sight to see that only seems to happen at Oshkosh \u2013 a perfect \u201conly at Oshkosh<\/em>\u201d moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without knowing it, that was exactly the moment I was\nwaiting for to officially kick off AirVenture 2016. And it was incredible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many years I would roll into Oshkosh, Wisconsin a few days before the official start of AirVenture. I was able to work with my Dad to set up the NASAO booth and then take a minute to stroll around the grounds to see what planes had arrived and then anticipate those that were still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,3,66],"tags":[138,135],"class_list":["post-16014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page-slider","category-state-news","category-wisconsin","tag-airventure","tag-eaa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3566edit2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16021,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014\/revisions\/16021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}