Author: Mark Hrutkay

Sun N Fun with Dracula

Sun N Fun is an air show where entrances are noticeable events. Thousands of light planes come in and land for the show. So many that most are not even seen. Quicksilver, Scott Yoak’s magnificent P-51D, makes an overhead...

Greg Connell Gone West….

All airshow careers come to an end, some pilots know it before the last flight and some don’t. Greg Connell tragically lost his life in an accident on May 15, 2016 at an airshow in Atlanta Georgia’s DeKalb Peachtree...

Planes Of Fame Airshow 2015

I was checking into the hotel and the pretty lady behind the counter asked what I was doing in town? I told her I was here for the airshow. She had no clue there was an airshow this weekend....

Breitling Jet Team at Sun N Fun 2015

Yannick Diry is an “Engineer”, who watches his jets carefully. In America he would be a simple “A&P Mechanic”, when you are from Europe, you are an “Engineer”. As he explains it, it’s something more than being a mechanic....

The Airshow at AirVenture 2014

At the end of every summer in Oshkosh Wisconsin there is a gathering that’s billed as the “world’s greatest aviation event”. The Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual convention is known by its location… Oshkosh; but officially it’s known as “AirVenture”.  ...

Buy a Brick at AirVenture

The Experimental Aircraft Association was start by Paul Poberezny in 1953.   Over the years, their annual convention and airshow has moved from Hales Corner, Wisconsin to Rockford, Illinois. In 1970, the event moved to its current location in Oshkosh,...