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[[male speakers conversing over radio]]
[[Just bring your plane, your sleeping bags, your camera and your passion for flight.]]
[[male speaker over radio] No one's ever told me what that's like--a walk in the park.]
[[male speaker over radio] Flight Cessna for Runway 3-6, Oshkosh Tower.]
[Let me know when you're ready to go.]
[[male speaker] Oshkosh is the world's single largest air show.]
[Unbelievable diversity of thought]
[and unbelievable diversity in airplanes.]
[[engine roaring] [crowd cheering and applauding]]
[[male speaker] It's so much more than a trade show.]
[A lot of other airshows are about trade and it's about commerce.]
[[male speaker] There are technology forums where you can actually get your hands dirty.]
[There are vintage aircraft, so you can learn all about those.]
[There's really a broad spectrum of interest]
[that comes here at the AirVenture.]
[[male speaker] It is a place where you can meet innovative people,]
[and they show all kinds of diverse products for the future,]
[and it makes it so different.]
[Plus the passion--you meet with passionate people]
[[♪♪] [airplane engine roaring]]
[[male speaker] You call it an air show, ]
[but the air show is a 3-hour event that happens each day.]
[It's a family gathering of people,]
[and here's half a million people from around the world]
[who get together this one week out of the year to share this common passion.]
[[If you're looking for the next big innovations in the air, there's no better place to explore.]]
[[male speaker] Oshkosh is literally hundreds of acres of ideas.]
[And so our goal of being here this week]
[[Chet Fuller - Chief Marketing Officer, GE Aviation]]
[is to try to harvest some of those ideas.]
[A group of us at GE and a group of us at Airbus got together and said,]
["Hey, let's pair off our advanced engineering team]
[and let's see how many good ideas can come from on the grounds of Oshkosh."]
[Innovation is all about people, and it's all about individual people.]
[Innovation isn't a corporate agenda, it's not a machine you can turn on or turn off.]
[It's individual intellect creating something, and that's what we find here.]
[[male speaker] We're here on an innovation treasure hunt at Oshkosh,]
[looking for new ideas and new concepts.]
[It's a great place to come for that kind of thing]
[[Don Morrow - Vice President, Platform Computing Systems, GE Aviation]]
[because this is really the birthplace of a lot of new technology in aviation]
[and all kinds of opportunities to find new things.]
[[male speaker] And yes, there's trade around it. Yes, this is a business.]
[But that's not what it's about. It's about the people and how much they love aviation.]
[[Jon Irving - Senior Manager, Overall Aircraft Design - Future Programs, Airbus Industrie]]
[And we've come here to try and get some of that to rub off on us,]
[to make us fresh, to make us reinvigorate that passion that we already have]
[to really push us to the next level.]
[[male speaker] We have to imagine the world of tomorrow.]
[And, you also have to reflect on what could happen over the next hundred years.]
[[Philippe Jarry - Vice President, Market Development - Future Programs, Airbus Industrie]]
[How will the people fly? What will be the shape of the future airplanes?]
[What will be the energy that we will use in the future engines?]
[So on and so forth. There is no end to it. There is no limit.]
[[♪♪] [It doesn't matter if it's your first year or your tenth, it will feel like coming home.]]
[My name is Juliette Cosh and I'm a pilot.]
[[Juliette Cosh - FAA Member Since 1998] I built my own plane with my husband.]
[We definitely have areas of expertise that we learned along the way.]
[I love the riveting, the fiberglassing, and just attention to detail.]
[He's definitely the electrical and engine man.]
[So together we make quite a team.]
[My name is Roger Cosh, and I helped my wife build an airplane.]
[[Roger Cosh - FAA Member Since 1998] My skills were in working on the engines,]
[and she took care of everything else.]
[[J. Cosh] What I really remember is how at nighttime,]
[at 3:00 in the morning, I would just say, "Are you awake?"]
[And I'd hear a, "Yep." "Well, I've got this idea."]
["I think this is how we can fix this problem that we're having."]
[And it also gives you a great feeling when you accomplish it]
[and you can actually see the plane fly then later.]
[[Mark Neubauer - Lead Engineer, GE Aviation] My name is Mark Neubauer.]
[I live in Cincinnati, Ohio, and I've been a pilot for 32 years]
[and have been coming to Oshkosh for 15 years. [♪♪]]
[The group of people that build airplanes--you won't find a more creative,]
[meticulous group of people to work with,]
[and that is one of the most rewarding parts is meeting these people]
[that share this common, not only passion, but this mindset]
[about how to approach problem solving.]
[One of the rituals I have is the last day I'm here]
[I get up early in the morning, by about 6:00 at dawn,]
[and I'll just walk out to the main portion of the area and stand in the center of it]
[You're frequently at a loss for words as to what it means to come here,]
[Next week I'll go home and I'll start thinking about coming back here next July.]
