Author: Staff

Before Oshkosh became synonymous with the world’s largest aviation gathering, it was the suburbs of Milwaukee that quietly seeded the grassroots revolution of experimental flight. In 1953, Paul Poberezny, a World War II pilot and aircraft mechanic, founded what would become the Experimental Aircraft Association in the garage of his Hales Corners home, just southwest of downtown Milwaukee. That modest beginning — fueled by scrap metal, hand-drawn blueprints, and a belief that flight should be accessible to ordinary citizens — ignited a movement that still defines homebuilt aviation across the country. The first official EAA fly-in took place that...

In a modest building at Panmunjom, representatives of the United Nations Command, North Korea, and China signed the Korean Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953. It brought a halt to three years of brutal fighting on the Korean Peninsula. The agreement, the result of 158 meetings over more than two years, the longest armistice negotiation in history, ended open hostilities and created the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a four-kilometer-wide buffer that still divides North and South Korea today. Yet the armistice was not a peace treaty. It was a military ceasefire, intended to “insure a complete cessation of hostilities...