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Of Wings & Things

Warbird Roundup 2022: Rare aircraft and record attendance

By Frederick Johnsen · September 12, 2022 ·

Take a sunny weekend in Idaho’s Treasure Valley, add about 20 warbirds, and mix with the friendly ambience of the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa. This recipe created the largest crowd on record for the museum’s Warbird Roundup.

An eagle among crows: Bud Anderson honored at Oshkosh

By Frederick Johnsen · August 28, 2022 ·

According to Bud the name Old Crow meant wise bird when he was talking with teetotaler friends; to others, it represented booze.

The art of B-29 test beds

By Frederick Johnsen · August 22, 2022 ·

A mystery about nose art on B-29s used for research and testing is solved.

A BF deal at AirVenture 2022

By Frederick Johnsen · August 18, 2022 ·

Warplane aficionados despaired of ever seeing a Bf 109 — especially a genuine German example — in flying condition. To have two airworthy representations of this scourge of the skies parked nose-to-nose at AirVenture was so Oshkosh.

A 21st Century Jenny

By Frederick Johnsen · August 11, 2022 ·

Members of EAA Chapter 1414 joined forces with the Vintage Wings and Wheels Museum in Poplar Grove, Illinois, to build a new Jenny, which was the talk of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2022.

One story towers above all the rest at Oshkosh

By Frederick Johnsen · August 4, 2022 ·

The control tower at Wittman Regional Airport (KOSH) during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is Crazy Town to normal mortals, yet it is comprehensible and functional to a select crew of FAA controllers who keep the planes coming in with an assured meter and calm comms.

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2022 a record-breaking show

By Frederick Johnsen · August 3, 2022 ·

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2022 is over, and as the last prop wash wafts across the matted acres of now-empty grass parking spaces at Wittman Regional Airport (KOSH) in Wisconsin, early figures show that 650,000 visitors descended upon the Experimental Aircraft Association grounds during the week of July 25-31.

Helicopters give thousands an aerial view of AirVenture

By Frederick Johnsen · August 1, 2022 ·

Three helicopters buzz above EAA AirVenture all day, every day, of the show, giving AirVenture visitors a birds-eye view of the grounds.

The Tommy Scout: From war to sport flying

By Frederick Johnsen · July 6, 2022 ·

The Thomas-Morse S-4, known as the Tommy, was a plane at the intersection between aircraft development during World War I and Roaring Twenties sport flying.

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