{"id":428474,"date":"2021-08-02T08:34:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428474"},"modified":"2021-08-02T08:57:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T03:27:09","slug":"aviation-heavyweights-fly-to-us-grassroots-air-show-to-fill-pilot-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aviation-heavyweights-fly-to-us-grassroots-air-show-to-fill-pilot-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Aviation heavyweights fly to US grassroots air show to fill pilot shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wings of a Boeing 737 MAX airliner swept over green fields populated by colorful small planes, lending a rare corporate touch to the world&#8217;s largest grassroots air show this past week.<\/p>\n<p>EAA AirVenture brought together more than half a million aviation enthusiasts and thousands of vintage or homebuilt aircraft and aerobatic showstoppers to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for a celebration dubbed the Woodstock of aviation. <\/p>\n<p>For one week, the annual summer event becomes the world&#8217;s busiest airspace with well over 100 takeoffs or landings every hour. <\/p>\n<p>With marquee events like the Paris Airshow cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, Oshkosh provided a tempting showcase this year for corporate industry leaders like Boeing and United Airlines &#8211; a reminder of what&#8217;s at stake for an industry still overcoming its worst crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wings of a Boeing 737 MAX airliner swept over green fields populated by colorful small planes, lending a rare corporate touch to the world&#8217;s largest grassroots air show this past week. EAA AirVenture brought together more than half a million aviation enthusiasts and thousands of vintage or homebuilt aircraft and aerobatic showstoppers to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for a celebration dubbed the Woodstock of aviation. For one week, the annual summer event becomes the world&#8217;s busiest airspace with well over 100 takeoffs or landings every hour. With marquee events like the Paris Airshow cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, Oshkosh provided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}