Seeing static planes in a museum is all well and good, but the great thing about the Oshkosh EAA Air Show is that everything here FLIES, and there are constant flightline demonstrations all afternoon. Some photos.

For one week a year, Oshkosh airport is the busiest in the world

B-17 Flying Fortress

A-4 Skyhawk

Aerobatic team in Canadian Harvard trainers

Ford Trimotor, taking paying passengers for a spin

Aerobatics show

Seaplane

US Forest Service tanker plane for fighting forest fires

Aerobatics

A large flight of military trainers

B-29 “Fifi”, the only remaining airworthy Superfortress

C-5 Galaxy

Soviet L-39 jet trainer

A flight of jet trainers

“Japanese Zero”, actually an AT-6 painted in Japanese livery

Autogyro

A trio of Russian and American jets

Yak-52’s

A-10 Warthog

P-51 Mustang

A-1 Skyraider

Yak-9

B-25 Mitchell