Oshkosh Attendance

[Dave Homewood]

According to EAA, this year's AirVenture airshow at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, had an attendance of approximately 590,000 people.

I remember when there was a time it used to be said that the 1969 Woodstock festival had the world's largest crowd gathered in one place - with 400,000 people.

It just goes to show how popular aviation really is. That is approximately 1/8th of the entire population of New Zealand at one airshow.

(For the record regarding crowd sizes Google states "An estimated 20-22 million pilgrims gathered in Karbala, Iraq for the Arba'een on 13 December 2014." But I don't think that was an airshow or a music festival...)

[kiwithrottlejockey]

There are a lot more people in the world now than there were back in 1969.

[Dave Homewood]

That is very true. And a lot more music choices too I guess.

[kiwithrottlejockey]

But unfortunately, Jimmy Hendrix died the following year.

However, Oshkosh is on my bucket-list of things to do at some point in the future.

But not until the Orange Goblin is but a distant bad memory.

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Aug 12, 2017 19:26:32 GMT 12 kiwithrottlejockey said:

But not until the Orange Goblin is but a distant bad memory.

Objection, Your Honour! Relevance?