If You Helped Work On The One Week Wonder At AirVenture 2014, This Message Is For You

The One Week Wonder, a Zenith CH-750 Cruzer, was built during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014 by more than 2,500 volunteers. Each person who helped pull a rivet signed their name next to the rivet with a marker. One of the highlights of taking it to events is having people look for their rivet on the aircraft.

However, the inked-on signatures have faded and it was time to paint the aircraft. A beautiful paint scheme was designed by Scheme Designers and voted on by the volunteers in 2014. It was fully intended to keep the signatures on the aircraft by use of permanent ink, but it turns out that permanent ink is not permanent when exposed to the elements.

Between the sun and washing the aircraft, many of the signatures have faded or are simply gone. Plus, surface corrosion was starting to show up from the tour of Florida, so it was time to paint the airplane. The obvious problem is, the signatures are lost with the paint job.

In order to capture the spirit of the thousands of volunteers who helped build this aircraft, it was decided to let anyone who had a hand in the building of the One Week Wonder to come back and permanently add their signatures to the aircraft. So, at EAA AirVenture this year a digital keypad will be used for volunteers to sign. The signatures will be transferred to a permanent decal system which allows the signatures to be affixed to one of the stripes on the aircraft. When a stripes fills up, the signatures will be added to the aircraft.

The One Week Wonder will be located in the Homebuilders Hangar during AirVenture 2016. If you helped build it, stop by and get your name on the plane.

(Image provided by EAA)

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