Posts by: Emme Hornung

Emme Hornung

Emme Hornung, EAA 1463093, is the production coordinator for EAA’s print and digital content and publications and enjoys contributing human-interest stories. She is currently working toward her sport pilot certificate. Connect with Emme at ehornung@eaa.org.

October 16, 2025October 17, 2025

Could Sport Pilot 2.0 Be the Next Red-Hot Revival?

Learning to Fly, Why We Fly

By Emme Hornung Picture it: Your local aviation scene flourishing. Most of the training aircraft at the flight school and the rentable aircraft at flying clubs are suddenly open to ... Read more

October 6, 2025October 17, 2025

Sharing the Life of Aviation Legend Steve Wittman at Museum Speaker Series

EAA Museum, Speaker Series

Jim Cunningham, a published aviation writer and biographer, will share the storied life of Steve Wittman — an Oshkosh native, prolific aircraft designer, and legendary air racer — as the ... Read more

July 26, 2025

Here Since Day One

AirVenture, Member Stories

Before EAA became EAA in 1953, it was just founder Paul Poberezny and a small group of homebuilding enthusiasts that would informally get together, often at the local auto garage ... Read more

July 23, 2025July 23, 2025

From Patient to Pilot

AirVenture

Byron Waller, a 15-year-old from Brisbane, Australia, is using aviation to raise awareness about Crohn’s disease and show people they can overcome their limitations. Byron had been in and out ... Read more

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025

BETA Technologies Electrifies Afternoon Air Show

AirVenture

“This business would not exist if it weren’t for EAA,” said Kyle Clark, BETA Technologies founder and CEO. As one of the participants in today’s Innovations Day activities, BETA’s all-electric ... Read more

April 25, 2025October 17, 2025

Vietnam Helicopter Pilot to Present at Museum Speaker Series

EAA Museum, Speaker Series

Ret. CW5 Dick Hanusa, an experienced Army helicopter pilot, is the next speaker in EAA’s Speaker Series. Dick will share his experiences from two tours in Vietnam flying the UH-1, ... Read more

April 10, 2025April 10, 2025

Filling the Void

Member Stories

EAA members come in all shapes and forms with diverse backgrounds and reasons for falling in love with aviation. For many members, their background is in military aviation. But what ... Read more

March 27, 2025October 17, 2025

A Star-Struck Young Eagle

Member Stories, Youth & Young Eagles

Young Eagles rallies can be magical for a number of reasons, but a recent EAA Chapter 17 rally at KMNV in Tennessee seemed to have an extra bit of magic ... Read more

March 21, 2025October 16, 2025

T-38 Instructor Pilot to Present at Museum Speaker Series

Speaker Series

Lt. Col. Olga Custodio, a retired T-38 instructor pilot and the first Latina U.S. Air Force pilot, is the next speaker in the EAA Aviation Museum Speaker Series. Olga will ... Read more

February 24, 2025October 17, 2025

C-130 Navigator to Present at Museum Speaker Series

EAA Museum, Speaker Series

Ret. Lt. Col. Anita Mack is the next speaker in the EAA Aviation Museum Speaker Series. Anita will share her experiences as a navigator on the C-130 during Operation Enduring ... Read more

January 9, 2025October 17, 2025

A Model Citizen

Member Stories, Ultralights

By Emme Hornung, EAA 1463093 This piece originally ran in the November 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. When you think of Oshkosh, what specific airplanes come to mind? ... Read more

October 28, 2024October 17, 2025

‘Recognize the Moment’ With Record-Breaking Race Pilot at Museum Speaker Series

Aerobatics, History, Speaker Series

Skip Holm – a highly-accomplished Air Force fighter pilot, Skunk Works test pilot, air show and race pilot, and movie pilot – will be the final speaker for the 2024 ... Read more

October 17, 2024October 17, 2025

EAA’s Family Values

Chapters, Member Stories

If you ask anyone in the aviation world what aviation means to them, you’re likely to hear something along the lines of how important the aviation community is to them. ... Read more

September 5, 2024October 17, 2025

Uncover the Months Following 9/11 at Museum Speaker Series

History, Speaker Series

By Emme Hornung Returning from the 2023 edition of the 9/11 Aviation Adventure Speaker Series, retired FDNY Deputy Chief Charles R. Blaich brings with him colleague and friend Dr. Michael ... Read more

July 26, 2024July 26, 2024

What Makes a Family

AirVenture, Member Stories

By Emme Hornung When Len Perry decided to learn to fly at 35 years old, his wife, Helena, figured it was a midlife crisis. But it was never a phase ... Read more

July 21, 2024October 17, 2025

Tall Pines Café

AirVenture, Volunteers

By Emme Hornung Picture this: The roar of the morning P-51 formation just pulled you out of sleep. Usually, you hit snooze on your alarm, but there is no snooze ... Read more

July 21, 2024October 16, 2025

15 Years of Entertainment and Education on the Warbirds Tram Tour

AirVenture, Warbirds

By Emme Hornung With rows and rows of thousands of aircraft to see on the AirVenture grounds, it may be hard to know exactly what you’re looking at. Lucky for you, ... Read more

May 24, 2024June 7, 2024

Uncover the Heroic Tale of Bazooka Charlie at Museum Speaker Series

Speaker Series

Jim Busha, the co-author of Bazooka Charlie: The Unbelievable Story of Major Charles Carpenter and Rosie the Rocketer, is the next speaker in EAA’s Aviation Adventure Speaker Series. Jim will ... Read more

May 15, 2024

Planting the Aviation Seed

Member Stories

Millions of young people have experienced flight through EAA’s Young Eagles program, including Dusty Hanks, EAA 1140580, who is now a first officer for Delta Air Lines. He recently reunited ... Read more

April 26, 2024

Retired Coast Guard Pilot to Present at Museum Speaker Series

Speaker Series

Tom Cooper, a retired commanding officer for the United States Coast Guard, is the next speaker in EAA’s Aviation Adventure Speaker Series. Tom will share stories of the life-saving missions ... Read more

March 26, 2024November 19, 2024

Retired TOPGUN Pilot to Present at Museum Speaker Series

Speaker Series

Retired Commander Hermon “Munster” Cook, an F-14 Tomcat pilot during the 1980s Libyan incidents, is the next speaker in EAA’s Aviation Adventure Speaker Series. Hermon will share his journey of ... Read more

March 20, 2024October 17, 2025

Volunteer Spotlight — Craig and Bonnie Fitzsimmons

Volunteers

Craig and Bonnie Fitzsimmons, EAA 266725 and 814505, have been together for more than 50 years, having met when they were just 19 years old in Elgin, Illinois. Bonnie opened ... Read more

February 26, 2024

A-1 Skyraider Pilot to Present at Museum Speaker Series

Speaker Series

Retired Lt. Col. John Larrison, a pilot of some of the first A-1 Skyraider missions over Vietnam, is the next speaker in EAA’s Aviation Adventure Speaker Series. John, EAA 23138, ... Read more

February 7, 2024

Air Show Performer Matt Younkin to Present at Museum Speaker Series

Air Show, AirVenture, Speaker Series

Matt Younkin, an aerobatic air show extraordinaire, makes a return to Oshkosh for a different kind of show — this time on stage rather than in the sky. As the ... Read more

January 25, 2024March 29, 2024

Volunteer Spotlight — Cliff Chetwin

Member Stories, Volunteers

Cliff Chetwin, EAA Lifetime 429238, is a retired aviation program manager for the National Park Service and continues to educate others and spread The Spirit of Aviation through volunteerism.

January 11, 2024

MIA Recovery Archaeologist to Present at Museum Speaker Series

EAA Museum, Speaker Series

Dr. Brett Hoffman, a senior member of the University of Wisconsin Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project, will share the history of the project and dive into work accomplished ... Read more

December 14, 2023October 17, 2025

Volunteer Spotlight — Jonathon McKenzie

Volunteers

Jonathon McKenzie, EAA Lifetime 1110671, became EAA’s Print Mail Center volunteer chairman in 2022, but he joined EAA and started volunteering more than 10 years ago after he caught a ... Read more

December 14, 2023December 18, 2023

No Need for Speed: The Gordon Bennett Cup

Member Stories

Noah Forden, EAA 539700, and Brenda Cowlishaw spent almost three days in the gas balloon Intrepid, traveling 1,382 miles over the southern United States as part of the world’s oldest ... Read more

November 30, 2023October 17, 2025

Reflections of a Tri-Motor Stewardess (Or Should I Say, Hostess)

History, Honoring The Past

100-year-old Ruth Hunter considered the Tri-Motor her home at one point, having been a stewardess on the Tri-Motor in the early ‘50s, and getting to fly in EAA’s Ford Tri-Motor ... Read more

November 9, 2023

Grounded No More: Healing Veterans One Flight at a Time

Why We Fly

Many veterans reach out after their day at Grounded No More with stories of how the experience helped them. Some think about their flight when they are having a bad ... Read more

October 12, 2023October 12, 2023

Youth Inspiring Youths

Youth & Young Eagles

Ace Kehoe, EAA 1537419, is known as the “aviation kid” at his Florida high school, and it’s a title he’s fully embracing! At just 16 years old, Ace is forming ... Read more

October 5, 2023

How a General Aviator Inspired UFO Folklore

History

The extraterrestrial frenzy we’re experiencing these days is nothing new. General aviation pilot Kenneth Arnold is widely credited with being the inspiration for the modern era of UFO folklore after ... Read more

September 28, 2023November 29, 2023

The Ford Tri-Motor’s Biggest Fan

Air Tours

Do you believe in love at first sight? Or, perhaps more fitting, love at first flight? Arlene Maksymicz of EAA Chapter 846 sure does! The love affair started when the ... Read more

September 20, 2023September 21, 2023

I Jumped Out of a “Perfectly Good Airplane,” and Here’s How It Went

Member Stories

Whether it’s a bucket list item or your biggest fear, I think everyone should consider taking the leap. Something inside you will change. There’s just something about falling 10,000 feet ... Read more

August 31, 2023August 31, 2023

Three FDNY Firefighters to Present at 9/11 Speaker Series

Uncategorized

Excerpt: Three members of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY), Charles R. Blaich, Matt Nelson, and Steven SanFilippo, will be speaking about their 9/11 experience and honoring those who ... Read more

August 22, 2023August 23, 2023

Aviation’s Next Generation

AirVenture

Daniel Ruth, EAA 1298399, has many hobbies you’d expect from a ten-year-old: he is an infield catcher on a baseball team, is a Boy Scout, has a purple belt in ... Read more

July 27, 2023August 23, 2023

Vietnam Through the Lens of a Combat Photographer

AirVenture

This Year at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, we are remembering those who served in the Vietnam War, 50 years after the official withdrawal of American troops.

July 26, 2023August 23, 2023

Not Your Father’s Paper Route

AirVenture, Volunteers

This newspaper — yes, the one you’re likely reading as you enjoy that hot coffee and donut you got from the Red One Market — was delivered by EAA Print ... Read more

July 24, 2023August 23, 2023

Low and Slow Around the Lower 48

AirVenture, Member Stories

“Right now, I’m so tired of flying. It’s so great to be here on the ground … and I know by the time the whole convention’s over, I’ll be just ... Read more