Submitted by Will Showers

Oshkosh Temporary FSS (OSH), Wisconsin, July 1974

The tent in the background was the 1974 temporary Oshkosh FSS. Names of employees (left to right) temporarily assigned to Oshkosh FSS during the annual Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) event.

Jim McCollom, Detroit, Michigan FSS (DET)
Tom Cummings, (supervisor) Fort Wayne, Indiana FSS (FWA)
Louie Demers, Quincy, Illinois FSS (UIN)
Will Showers, Decatur, Illinois FSS (DEC)
Seldon Armbruster, Cleveland, Ohio FSS (CLE)
Mel Miller South Bend, Indiana FSS (SBN)

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Names of employees (left to right)

STANDING
Tom Cummings, (supervisor) Fort Wayne, Indiana FSS (FWA)
Seldon Armbruster, Cleveland, Ohio FSS (CLE)
Steve Damian, Minneapolis, Minnesota FSS (MSP)
Bud Rugg, Wausau, Wisconsin FSS (AUW)
Ray Chezem, Milwaukee, Wisconsin FSS (MKE)
Jim McCollom, Detroit, Michagan FSS (DET)
Mel Miller South Bend, Indiana FSS (SBN).
Will Showers, Decatur, Illinois FSS (DEC)

KNEELING
Unknown
Ed Slaga, Chief, Greenbay, Wisconsin FSS (GRB)

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An interior photo of the 1975 temporary FSS tent showing the teletype paper and facsimile chart display. This photograph was taken the first day of the fly-in before pilots began checking weather for their flight home.

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The interior of the temporary Oshkosh FSS tent with the teletype paper and facsimile chart display. Names of employees (left to right) temporarily assigned to Oshkosh FSS during the annual Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) event:

Tom Cummings, (supervisor) Fort Wayne, Indiana FSS (FWA)
Ed Slaga, Chief, Greenbay, Wisconsin FSS (GRB)
Mel Miller South Bend, Indiana FSS (SBN).

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A tent was used both of the years 1974 and 1975. The interior of the tent was mostly unchanged from 1974 to 1975 except for the addition of the rope line to provide room for the pilot weather briefers to move back and forth between the pilots and the weather data display.

From 1974 to 1975 we did make changes to some of our procedures to improve efficiency. An example was aircraft overdue on VFR flight plans which was a very large problem in 1974. That year we spent many hours driving up and down the rows of aircraft looking for overdue aircraft. In 1975 we positioned two people to the side of the landing runway. They wrote down the registration numbers of the landing aircraft. When an aircraft became overdue, the list was then used to determine if the aircraft had landed. This saved many hours of searching.