Restoring an old airplane is the same proposition for the kind of craftsman who is honest with himself. The work itself is the reward. Standing in a quiet shop on a Saturday morning with a piece of spruce in one hand and a glue brush in the other, fitting a new wing rib into a fixture that has not held a wing rib in eighty years, is its own kind of payment.

For one week every year, Wittman Regional Airport (KOSH) is said to become the busiest airport in the world. Having flown in there a number of times now, both VFR and IFR, I can attest that it's busy. Even crazy! But it's much more than that...