Program
Special Show Kick-Off Program
Sunday evening, July 26 -- 7:30 p.m. Theater in the Woods
AN EVENING
WITH CHAMPIONS
We kick off the Oshkosh week with a
welcome from President Tom Poberezny.
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For the 24th year, AviationSpeakers.com
brings you some of aviation’s finest speakers, and this year
some of the most inspiring. Your Master of Ceremonies, also for
24 years, is Danny Mortensen, President of Bill
Phelps’ Airline Ground Schools, author of The Airline Career
and Interview Manual and the 1990 Gold Trophy winner at the
National Championship Air Races.
7:30 p.m. Denny Fitch has been
commended by President George Bush and is the recipient of
Senate Resolution 174, 101st Congress for his
outstanding effort, poise and courage in assisting the crew in
attempting a difficult emergency landing of United Flight 232
at Sioux City, Iowa. The control of the plane was in Denny’s
hands as he manned the throttles—the only control they had. He
gives safety talks to aviation departments and inspirational and
motivational programs to non-aviation groups. Capt. Fitch is
recognized for his extensive experience as a fight instructor
and check airman. He has accumulated over 20,000 hours of flight
time and is a former FAA check pilot designee and is a safety
consultant to NASA’s ASAP committee. He flies an A-36 and
Champ for business & fun.
8:15 p.m. Bill Lishman taught
himself to fly, then became the first human to fly in formation
with Birds. He
also became the first person to lead a flock of birds on a
Migration. This pioneering work has led to the restoration of a
migratory flock of the highly endangered whooping cranes that
now summers in Wisconsin and winters in Florida. The story was
the inspiration for the 1996 film Fly Away Home and later
the French Feature film The Winged Migration. Bill will
present We Owe It to the Birds. It is about how the air
adventure in nature started four hundred million years ago and
continues to be inspiration for humans to become aviators.
9:00 p.m. . Frank D. Boring
produced Fei Hu, The Story of the Flying Tigers, that
aired on PBS. Frank drew from
70 hours of interviews in four
countries and the best of fifteen hours of flying footage shot
in Burma and China. Before Pearl Harbor was
attacked, plunging the U.S. into WWII, this group of volunteer
warriors were prepared to take on the entire Japanese military
at the Burma and China front lines. Frank’s 11 years of
comprehensive work researching the Flying Tigers results in a
colorful, one-of-a-kind multimedia
show, Talking With Tigers. Earning the trust
of the Tigers, they’ve entrusted him with their history.
Frank interweaves archival flying film
footage with filmed pilot interviews, mixes insider details,
little known and funny stories bringing history to life.
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