When the sun is high and hot and ripening Wisconsin's fertile landscape-in other words, late July-it can only mean three things: it's high time for brats, preferably tucked underneath a row of tangy kraut; sweet corn dripping with savory butter; and the world's largest, most extravagant, most outrageous fly-in. Those three elements-brats, sweet corn, and every kind of flying machine imaginable-have been central to SPA's involvement in the great EAA Oshkosh summertime adventure, now known as Air Venture, since 1980. That was the year Russ Lincoln, who managed the Oshkosh tower during the fly-in, put together an evening social just for seaplane folks. A parachute was set up at the foot of the old Oshkosh control tower to provide for rudimentary cover from the elements, and members of the still-relatively-new United States Seaplane Pilots Association enjoyed the first of what has, over the past four decades, grown into SPA's largest event of the year-the Air Venture Corn Roast.
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