Working in aviation offers so many varied experiences and opportunities. My last article for Midwest Flyer Monthly was all about encouraging kids to explore the wide ranges of aviation careers!…
Author: Ami Eckard-Lee
Ami Eckard-Lee is the Creative Development Director at the Kelch Aviation Museum in Brodhead, Wisconsin, where her duties include making videos, working on airplanes, giving tours, and sending out a lot of emails. As a history lover and student pilot, Ami is proud to have conducted the majority of her flight training in a 1931 Curtiss Junior using a Gosport Tube. A trained performer and 1920s jazz aficionado, Ami has performed both solo and with her vaudeville band on stage, on screen, and in the circus, and she is the host of the upcoming “Course Correction” series on PBS Wisconsin Education. You can reach Ami at ami@kelchmuseum.org.
AT OUR AIRPORTS: Aviation and Hollywood: The sister inventions that carried us into the modern age
The Brodhead, Wisconsin airport (C37), may not be in any way connected to Hollywood, California, but the whole reason I’m here at the Kelch Aviation Museum, working with airplanes and…
EDUCATION – Real fun, real learning: What does “getting youth interested in aviation” really look like?
An afternoon volunteering at the Vintage Aircraft Association’s Charles W. Harris Youth Aviation Center at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh In every General Aviation (GA) group I’ve worked with, people discuss with…
Parrakeet Perch: Or, how many mechanics does it take to hang an airplane?
A year ago, the Kelch Aviation Museum crew hung the Rose Parrakeet biplane from the ceiling of the Wagner Welcome Atrium. We thought it might be easy… It took three…
Kelch Aviation Museum
Join Ami Eckard-Lee of the Kelch Aviation Museum on an in-depth, hands-on adventure with the 1929 Brunner-Winkle Bird Biplane that Anne Morrow Lindbergh learned to fly in. The Bird was…