Here are some points made during the last webinar about the EAA Convention updates.
Advance ticket sales are up 25% from last year.
Site construction will have new showers in the North camping area, chip seal roads in the area south of the main entrance, expansion to hangar C, and new concrete pad in warbirds area. 44 wi-fi hotspots will be added.
2 more web cams. One on the Vintage tower toward AeroShell Square. The other in the north area on the E-W runway.
Homebuilder’s Hangar will have speakers from the development of kit planes, demonstrations of items originally presented in the Hints for Homebuilders video series.
Some new planes that will be at the event:
Cobalt CA-50 prototype
V-22 Ospry
2 F-4 Phantoms
Sikorsky S-38
PBY4-2 Firebomber
Seafire
Falcon 50 with new spiroidal wingtips (wingtip loops around back to the wing.
F-22 will not be there. They were needed for operations.
Adam hinted someone who hasn’t emphasized airplanes in a while will unveil a new plane at the Homebuilder’s area,.
The Homebuilt parking and camping area is expanded by taking away from the Red parking area.