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As AirVenture 2014 drew to a close this weekend there was a very simple, yet emotional, service at EAA to honor the memory of those we loved and lost this year. Included in the 2014 EAA Memorial Wall Inductees were Henry Ogrodzinski and EAA’s founder Paul Poberezny. He was greatly missed this year. Whether it was walking around the fly-in, taking in the…

Some people knew him as Henry Ogrodzinski, most people knew him as Henry O, I simply knew him as my uncle. One of my fondest memories of Henry was the time I spent an entire week in Oshkosh with him. It was the summer of 1987, as I recall, and the first time I had spent any significant time away…

19 January 94 Dear Dennis, Happy Birthday! Please excuse the card, I know it’s “udderly” silly but, somehow, I figured you would expect something like flying cows from me. Since I haven’t picked up any good vibrations or “gift” brain waves from Bay View, I thought we should send a couple of bucks rather than some “gift” you really didn’t…

Here is Henry Ogrodzinski giving a tour of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. This clip of Henry is from the 1987 special “Just Plane Fun” which documented the 1987 EAA Fly-in and Convention, now called AirVenture. The special also featured Gordon Baxter, a columnist at the time for Flying Magazine.