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How Does That Work? FAA Air Traffic Control at EAA Airventure Oshkosh The Busiest Moo-Cows in Wisconsin

When moved, they lurch slowly across the field, creaking with the effort, occasionally getting stuck in a pothole.  The uninitiated may think they’re nothing more than hijacked hay wagons.  But that’s where any similarity to their four-legged counterparts and Wisconsin’s farm industry ends.  The FAA’s MOO-COWS (Mobile Operations and Communications Workstations) are hard-working technical bases for controllers to use in departing aircraft in an efficient, safe and orderly...