Word: wittman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over the Wisconsin city of Oshkosh darkened last week as swarms of flying machines-biplanes and Breezies, power gliders and Gyrocopters, delta wings and Aerodusters-cavorted and capered in the air like drunken dragonflies. The occasion: the 25th annual convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), held at Wittman Field, where 430 homemade aircraft of every description registered for the festivities. Some, like Paul Sunday's 90%-completed Varieze, were trailered to Wisconsin. Others came in on a wing and a prayer. Michael Murphy, a TWA mechanic who built his sky-cycle from a photograph of a 1912 wood...