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What was new at Oshkosh

Each year at AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI., I assume two tasks for the week: 1) Volunteering as a tram driver or in the KidVenture area, and, 2) Serve as a writer to collect data for an article to be published in Powered Sport Flying magazine. That article was just published, below is an excerpt.

After driving a tram or acting as a conductor for 6 hours each day, I put on my writer's hat and perused the ultralight area seeking out what vendors were promoting that was new this year. Both of these tasks are rewarding and have specific benefits. For those of you who have attended AirVenture 2017, you will recognize some of the topics I have written about. For those of you have never been to AirVenture, be sure to put it on your bucket list. It is a mecca of information, innovative aircraft and and a way to meet happy people such as Ron Frank who volunteers in the aircraft maintenance facility.

The cover and first two pages of the 8-page article are shown below, if you would like to read the entire story, e-mail me at fiebichpv@aol.com and I will send you PDFs of the article. Alternately, purchase the 2017 October/November issue of Powered Sport Flying magazine.

Paul D. Fiebich

Great story Paul

many thanks for the email and the full download......

some interesting aircraft for sure, but I dont think ..... Im ...ever going to be a drone passenger..!!!

cheers and thx   Arthur

Hi Arthur, you and several others are certainly welcome to the full download of my Oshkosh article. I hope you share it with others as it is a peek into the future of aviation; the autonomous aerial vehicles (drones) will definitely have an impact. These are pilotless, pre-programmed aircraft serving specific needs. It is amazing what lies ahead of us. Another recipient of the download said he would not like to fly in a drone because he is a control freak and that type of flying is counter to his philosophy.

Paul Fiebich

Paul, I can imagine my flying in a drone. If that should take place, I would not know it, so I could not refuse it.

Patients must be stabilized before a medivac chopper will depart with them because there is no room in the chopper for CPR, etc. I can imagine that drones will be used for medivac, thus reducing the expense of the crew.

The hospital will send the drone to the GPS coordinates given by the requesting medical people; when the patient is stabile, the patient will be loaded into the drone and the drone will return to the hospital. Should the patient be DOA, no one will be able to prove that it was caused by the patient's realizing the he/she was in a drone.