Sunday, August 3, 2014
THE OFFICIAL DAILY NEWSPAPER OF EAA AIRVENTURE OSHKOSH
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One Week Wonder Cruzer designed for more speed By Randy Dufault
Chris Heinz, loved flying his Zipper ultralight design in the evenings after the heat and winds of the day had subsided. But there was a challenge. “You have a lot of bugs and flies in your face,” Heinz said. “I really liked that plane because you could fly really slowly and admire the landscape or whatever you wanted to look at. But I didn’t like all those flies.” Heinz is an aeronautical engineer and designer of all Zenith Aircraft Company’s models. Those evening flights provided the impetus to design an airplane CONT. P4
PHOTO BY PHIL WESTON
With only a day to go volunteers mount the wings on the One Week Wonder Zenith CH 750 Cruzer Saturday.
AirVenture 2014: ‘Pure magic’ By Joseph E. (Jeb) Burnside
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emember only seven days ago, when the One Week Wonder was merely a collection of parts in a crate, flying in close formation with thousands of hopes and dreams? Or when the Vintage area had yet to accept its classics? What about the Warbirds area, where the competing shriek of turbojets and rumble of radials hadn’t been heard for a year? When the only things flying at the Seaplane Base had beaks and feathers? All that changed, of course, replaced by literally thousands of aircraft, representing every conceivable configuration, color, and condition. Thousands
of people have strolled, gawked, craned their heads skyward, and been wowed. Hundreds of vendors have exhausted themselves, their wares, and their business cards. Even the weather cooperated, sort of. All these things—and much more— happened in a single week. And, it’s not over yet: Even as you read this and as campsites are broken down and tiedown stakes are pulled, visitors are streaming onto the grounds for the afternoon air show and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds’ final program of the event.
It’s too early to tally up the numbers, but it’s not too late to sum up the week, to ask the “what-it-all-means” questions, or to share EAA Chairman Jack J. Pelton’s thoughts. And it’s not too early to think about next year. “I couldn’t be more pleased,” Pelton told AirVenture Today. “We’ve had one very full week, with lots of forums and lots of exciting things going on, CONT. P14
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Thunderbirds fly today! The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly today at 5 p.m. Please see page 32 for special crowd line instructions that will be in place today.
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