{"id":1850,"date":"2019-08-02T08:12:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T12:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2019-08-02T08:12:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T12:12:57","slug":"on-edit-the-final-airventure-numbers-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=1850","title":{"rendered":"On edit: the final AirVenture numbers are in."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The last two posts summarized various aspects of this year&#8217;s Experimental Aircraft Association &#8220;AirVenture&#8221; gathering in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. A recent article in Flying magazine details the record-setting statistics for that event: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingmag.com\/numbers-are-in-for-airventure-2019\/\">The Numbers Are in For AirVenture 2019.<\/a>&#8221; Just to highlight a few of the most unbelievable metrics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Total attendance was 642,000, an increase of 7%.<\/li><li>More than 10,000 aircraft were flown to the the event, resulting in 16,807 aircraft operations, an average of 127 takeoffs\/landings per hour! <em>[Compare this to Atlanta Hartsfield airport, which averages 91 operations per hour (2236 per day), and it&#8217;s supposedly the &#8220;busiest airport in the world.&#8221; Sorry, but not during the week of AirVenture it&#8217;s not!]<\/em><\/li><li>Besides the thousands of plain ol&#8217; general aviation aircraft, there were 1,057 home-built aircraft, 939 vintage airplanes, 400 warbirds, 188 ultralights and light-sport aircraft, 105 seaplanes, 62 aerobatic aircraft, and 7 in an &#8220;other&#8221; category. <\/li><li>There were 12,300 camping sites (tent-, RV-, and airplane-sites), which together accounted for 40,000 visitors.<\/li><li>At one point, when I was grousing about the shortcomings of the camper registration process, I thought to myself, &#8220;If I were a decent person, I&#8217;d quit complaining and get out and help.&#8221; I should have. AirVenture relied on 5,500 volunteers who contributed more than 250,000 hours of volunteer time!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>When we were talking to friends about what to expect at Oshkosh, I would often say, &#8220;Well, I&#8217;ve been to lots of airshows before&#8230;,&#8221; to which the response was always something like, &#8220;No, you don&#8217;t understand. This isn&#8217;t an &#8216;airshow.&#8217; It&#8217;s an aviation experience in a completely different category from anything you&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221; Truer words were never uttered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last two posts summarized various aspects of this year&#8217;s Experimental Aircraft Association &#8220;AirVenture&#8221; gathering in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. A recent article in Flying magazine details the record-setting statistics for that event: &#8220;The Numbers Are in For AirVenture 2019.&#8221; Just to highlight a few of the most unbelievable metrics: Total attendance was 642,000, an increase of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=1850\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On edit: the final AirVenture numbers are in.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p68mhx-tQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}