Big is cool, and through the years, Oshkosh has hosted some of the biggest planes in the world: the C-5 Galaxy, Boeing 747, the Antonov An-124 and the Airbus Super Guppy, to name a few. But the biggest of the big, at least according to many metrics, is the Airbus A380, and its arrival at OSH in 2009 showed just how proud Airbus was of its giant achievement and how highly it regarded EAA’s annual gathering. The plane also created buzz because its landing that year was so very dicey that pilots were talking about it for weeks after. In the final tally, it was one of the landings where the airplane was still flyable afterward.
