Another month and another couple of major industry events have slipped by the wayside. For those who were planning to attend what would have been the biennial Farnborough International Airshow in the U.K. or the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh extravaganza in Wisconsin this week, it wouldn’t take too long to look left and look right before proclaiming that we somehow must have missed our connecting flight.
If you are like me, and happy to have your electronic calendar at hand to stay organized, do you also wonder how two such significant events on the aerospace calendar could somehow have been scheduled during the same week. While each show has a different focus, both Farnborough and Oshkosh are places where plane spotters and the occasional blue jeans-wearing high-net-worth individual can be seen with executives in Savile Row pin-stripes. Although we might come from different walks of life, we all seem to be able to converse quite well in the common language of aviation.
