Meeting at Oshkosh

Who’s going to Oshkosh (EAA AirVenture) and would like to meet up? Email philg@mit.edu if you want to get together. Perhaps Tuesday at Chick-fil-A around 11 am? Or we can pick a talk that we all want to attend. I haven’t researched the presentations yet. Folks who have suggestions for important presentations can post them here.

Bad news for those who’ve chosen to leave the safety of Florida’s smoke-free air, ubiquitous A/C, and almost-invulnerable power grid in order to attend this one-week outdoor event: the New York Times says that it is typically unsafe to go outside. See “Is It Safe to Go Outside? How to Navigate This Cruel Summer.” Climate change has come for EAA. Just a few days ago, the hottest day was forecast to inflict a high temp of 94 degrees on aviation enthusiasts. Currently, however, the forecast is for 97 degrees on Thursday:

Maybe we will have to escape to The Sweet Lair in Menasha for air conditioning, board games, and food.

We’re going to be reading the VFR arrival procedures carefully…

… while driving our rental car up from Chicago/Milwaukee (I need to be in Los Angeles for business immediately after). We’re staying at the Sleepy Hollow campground across from the Deplorable SOS Brothers with their beer and bikini-clad bartenders. I’ve packed a full library of works by Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Andrea Dworkin, and Catharine A. MacKinnon to present to the Brothers in hopes that they will change their ways.

Related:

• “EAA sues Sosnoski brothers, alleging federal trademark, unfair competition violations” (November 2019; a fight about who gets to make money off AirVenture just before the event was shut down for coronapanic (example of two bald men fighting over a comb?))