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July 25, 2024July 25, 2024

Aeronca Nation

AirVenture, Member Stories
By Jim Roberts From the day the Aeronautical Corporation of America set up shop in 1928 at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati, until it closed the doors in 1951 in Middletown, ... Read more
July 24, 2024July 24, 2024

New Name, Same Great Air Show

Aerobatics, AirVenture
By Barbara A. Schmitz Their name and paint job may be new, but their crowd-pleasing show will remain the same as the TITAN Aerobatic Team in its AT-6 Texans takes ... Read more
July 24, 2024July 24, 2024

WWII Airborne Demonstration Team

AirVenture, History
By Robbie Culver Kevin Conner is part of the WWII Airborne Demonstration Team based in Frederick, Oklahoma, that operates two World War II-era Douglas aircraft, the C-47 Boogie Baby and ... Read more
July 24, 2024August 1, 2024

Ray Aviation Corn Roast Celebrates 500 Successful Scholars

AirVenture, Chapters
By Robbie Culver In April 2024, the Ray Aviation Scholarship Fund reached a milestone of 500 completed Ray scholars who have earned their pilot certificate through the program. A corn ... Read more
July 24, 2024July 24, 2024

KidVenture Celebrates 25 Years of Inspiring Youths in Aviation

AirVenture, Learning to Fly, Youth & Young Eagles
By Abigail Oleniczak The excitement of KidVenture began 25 years ago when then EAA Chairman Tom Poberezny and Vice President Greg Anderson asked EAA Director Dan Majka to create somewhere ... Read more
July 24, 2024July 24, 2024

Cox Advocates for Disabilities While Encouraging Fearlessness, Adaptability

AirVenture, Learning to Fly, Member Stories
By Barbara A. Schmitz To say Jessica Cox, of Tucson, Arizonia, has a can-do attitude is a massive understatement. She was born without arms and learned to do things with ... Read more
July 24, 2024July 25, 2024

From Adversity to Purpose

AirVenture, Member Stories, Warbirds
Last summer, Paul Barnett nearly lost his right leg. A little more than a year later, he’s helping folks climb up into the cockpit of the Corsair he flew in ... Read more
July 24, 2024July 24, 2024

2024 August Raspet Winner Awarded

AirVenture
By Angela Satterlee Mike Blyth — a test pilot, entrepreneur, and aircraft lover who founded Sling Aircraft — is the winner of the Dr. August Raspet Memorial Award this year. ... Read more
July 24, 2024July 24, 2024

Tiki Tower!

AirVenture, Volunteers
By Jim Roberts Jeff Coffey spent 30 years as an air traffic controller, including 15 years working SUN ’n FUN, and nine tours wearing the distinctive pink shirt of an ... Read more
July 24, 2024July 24, 2024

You’d Be ‘Plum Crazy’ Not to Fall in Love With Benzing’s P-51

AirVenture, Member Stories
By Barbara A. Schmitz Vicky Benzing wanted to fly a P-51 so bad that she took the training course to get qualified in the Mustang in hopes that someone would ... Read more
July 23, 2024July 23, 2024

Kaleidoscope Airplane Aims to Make Flying Fun

AirVenture, Member Stories
By Barbara A. Schmitz Liam Hawkins, of St. Petersburg, Florida, was so afraid of flying that he had to take more than 1,000 commercial flights before he could get over ... Read more
July 23, 2024July 23, 2024

From Massachusetts to Oshkosh

AirVenture, Member Stories
By Angela Satterlee You could call it a gyro-dynamic experience, but for Sue Benua, EAA Lifetime 1262570, it was an unforgettable trip. Sue arrived Thursday in Oshkosh after a weather ... Read more
July 23, 2024July 23, 2024

The Rebuild Wasn’t VariEze

AirVenture, Homebuilding
By Angela Satterlee Rylie Remar is making waves for all young women involved in aviation. She is a 21-year-old woman from Poplar Grove, Illinois, who decided that simply buying a ... Read more
July 23, 2024July 23, 2024

Teen Pilots Are Amazing!

AirVenture, Learning to Fly, Youth & Young Eagles
By Paul Maloy, EAA Director of Education Far too often, teenagers are categorically labeled as inadequate, unmotivated, unfocused, and lazy. However, the truth for many teens is exactly the opposite! ... Read more
July 23, 2024July 23, 2024

Flying in the Air Race Classic and Then to Oshkosh — What a Summer!

AirVenture, Member Stories
By Robbie Culver Pilots are a particular bunch. We are our own worst critics, overanalyze every flight we make, and are constantly striving for perfection. I’m still waiting to make ... Read more
July 23, 2024July 24, 2024

Rare WAAAM Biplanes Highlight Training Command at AirVenture 2024

AirVenture, Warbirds
As the storm clouds of war began to form in Europe in the 1930s, the U.S. Army Air Corps found itself in dire need of a primary trainer for the ... Read more
July 22, 2024July 22, 2024

EAA’s Volunteers of the Year

AirVenture, Member Stories, Volunteers
By Angela Satterlee Dennis Lange, EAA 198454, is from Fond du Lac, and he started volunteering at EAA back in 1979, became a member shortly after that in 1981, and ... Read more
July 22, 2024August 1, 2024

From Hand Model to Homebuilder

AirVenture, Homebuilding
Call him the George Costanza of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024. Randy Rettler, EAA 1030161, may not wear oven mitts to protect his hands like George did in “The Puffy Shirt,” ... Read more
July 22, 2024July 22, 2024

Two-Thirds Scale TTP38 Volar’s Lightning

AirVenture, Member Stories
By Robbie Culver EAA’s AirVenture Oshkosh is a showcase for aircraft that are not found anywhere else. This year, an example of that is Jim and Mitzi O’Hara’s TTP38 Volar’s ... Read more
July 22, 2024July 22, 2024

First ‘One Week Wonder’ turns 10

AirVenture
By Barbara A. Schmitz EAA is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its first One Week Wonder during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024. In 2014, more than 2,500 people shared the building ... Read more
July 22, 2024July 22, 2024

EAA Member Helps Preserve History at National Air and Space Museum

AirVenture, Member Stories
By Robbie Culver Have you ever wondered what it is like to work with some of our nation’s most precious and unique aviation artifacts? Imagine what it is like to ... Read more
July 22, 2024July 22, 2024

It Was All an Adventure!

AirVenture, Member Stories
By Robbie Culver Part of the allure of aviation is getting out of your comfort zone, embracing the adventure of every flight, and expanding your knowledge — the operative phrase ... Read more
July 21, 2024August 15, 2024

Ladies Love Taildraggers

AirVenture, Celebrating Women, Vintage, Volunteers
Ladies Love Taildraggers (LLT) is a nonprofit organization made up of a group of remarkable female pilots. They recently returned from their Ladies Love Taildraggers Mississippi River Flying Tour, which ... Read more
July 21, 2024July 21, 2024

Wisconsin Air National Guard Debuts Boom Simulator

AirVenture, Learning to Fly
By Master Sgt. Kellen Kroening The Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 128th Air Refueling Wing is unveiling a state-of-the-art mobile boom simulator at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024. This cutting-edge tool is ... Read more
July 21, 2024July 22, 2024

Linda Thorn — EAA’s 2024 Dorothy Hilbert Award Winner

AirVenture, Member Stories
By Angela Satterlee Linda Thorn is the winner of this year’s Dorothy Hilbert Award, which honors a female volunteer who exhibits the same passion, dedication, and devotion for volunteerism as ... Read more

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