AirVenture officially opened on Monday morning, on-schedule but badly bruised by four different and severe thunderstorms over the previous two days. Large parts of Wittman Field were too soft to support an airplane. The Mooney mass arrival was delayed until Sunday morning. Uncounted individual planes were diverted to outlying airports. But the EAA team really kicked it up a notch. The damaged displays have been dried and rebuilt. The food kiosks replaced the broken umbrellas and righted their tables. Boeing Plaza is a showplace, with a KC-135, a B-17, and an enormous UPS Boing 747-8F freighter. The first airshow flew as planned and there were no holes in the schedule.
