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

July 21, 2024July 22, 2024

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, 2024July 21, 2024

Distinct ‘Recall’ Stearman Comes to Oshkosh

AirVenture, Member Stories, Warbirds

Story and photography by Robbie Culver Flying to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is a rite of passage for pilots. Months of planning, sacrifices for good weather, and no small amount of ... Read more

July 21, 2024July 21, 2024

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

July 20, 2024July 20, 2024

Fueling EAA Volunteers With Coffee and Aviation

AirVenture, Volunteers

Thomas Varep-Popov fell in love with aviation at the early age of 4, and his passion for it has only grown. Now, he has combined those feelings about aviation with ... Read more

July 20, 2024July 20, 2024

Take a Book, Leave a Book

AirVenture

Need a break from all the excitement happening this week and not sure how to relax? Stop by the newly added free little libraries for a good book, provided by ... Read more

July 20, 2024July 20, 2024

Michigan Students Refurbish Homebuilders Welcome Wagon

AirVenture

A team of students from Northwestern Michigan College recently completed refurbishment of one of the Homebuilders Headquarters Welcome Wagons. The students, enrolled in automotive technology, spent part of the academic ... Read more

July 17, 2024July 17, 2024

What Our Members Are Building/Restoring — California Cessna 182

Member Stories

By Michael Haney, EAA Lifetime 1133354 This piece originally ran in the June 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. The story begins June 2021 in Mojave, California. I bought ... Read more

July 17, 2024July 17, 2024

Low and Slow

Member Stories

By Robert N. Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the June 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Last fall, my wife ... Read more

July 17, 2024July 17, 2024

EAA Chapter 478 Young Eagles Build and Fly Summer Camp

Chapters, Youth & Young Eagles

By Bernie Wunder, EAA 128167 EAA recently developed a program called the Young Eagles Build and Fly (YE B&F) for youths to build and fly a remote-controlled (RC) aircraft. The ... Read more

July 16, 2024July 16, 2024

The Ray Scholarship Going Full Circle: Paying It Forward and Giving Back

Chapters

By William Jagust, EAA Chapter 1387 Ray Scholarship Coordinator Just like other chapters, EAA Chapter 1387 in Troy, Missouri, was hoping to provide a candidate for the Ray Aviation Scholarship ... Read more

July 11, 2024July 11, 2024

Volunteer Spotlight — Ron Liebmann

Volunteers

By EAA This piece originally ran in the June 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine.   Ronald Liebmann, EAA 18367, remembers his aviation infatuation starting in kindergarten, watching Stearmans ... Read more

July 11, 2024July 11, 2024

Should You Install a Parachute in Your Homebuilt?

Homebuilding, Learning to Fly

By: Lisa Turner, EAA Lifetime 509911 This piece originally ran in Lisa’s Airworthy column in the June 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. It’s that perfect spring day when ... Read more

July 3, 2024July 3, 2024

The Thinker

Member Stories, Ultralights

By George Karamitis, EAA 144192 This piece originally ran in the May 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Every once in a while, someone will ask me, “George, when are ... Read more

July 3, 2024July 3, 2024

Maintenance for Reliability

Homebuilding, Member Stories

By Vic Syracuse, EAA Lifetime 180848 This piece originally ran in Vic’s Checkpoints column in the May 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. At the end of the Part 1 ... Read more

July 3, 2024July 3, 2024

How to Become Immortal: My Ticket to Oshkosh and Aviation Scholarships

AirVenture, Learning to Fly

By: Ella Lucas, EAA 1518806 Do you dream about living forever or becoming a legend, like Davy Crockett? I think many people do. There is something instinctive inside of us ... Read more

July 1, 2024July 3, 2024

EAA Chapter 1682 Hosts Rally on International Young Eagles Day

Learning to Fly, Youth & Young Eagles

By: Angela Satterlee For International Young Eagles Day, EAA Chapter 1682, led by Bill Wright, EAA 663877, was busy putting together the first Young Eagles rally at its local airport in ... Read more

June 26, 2024June 26, 2024

Florida EAA Chapter 203 and AOPA Members Support GA Specialty License Plate

Member Stories

A Support General Aviation license plate will soon be available for purchase in Florida because of the passionate efforts of three aviators with the support of their local EAA chapter ... Read more

June 26, 2024June 26, 2024

Turbulence and Triumph: Lessons Learned About Flying (and Life)

Member Stories

As pilots, each flight teaches us something new — about aviation, about the world, and about ourselves. I’ve been flying for two years, but in that time, I’ve experienced moments ... Read more

June 26, 2024June 27, 2024

South African EAA Chapter 322 Hosts Young Eagles Rally

Learning to Fly, Youth & Young Eagles

EAA has a long history of engendering the passion for flying amongst its members as well as the youths of the world. EAA is a worldwide organisation with International Young ... Read more

June 26, 2024June 26, 2024

EAA’s Attic — Joe Engle’s College Binder

Attic, History

This piece originally ran in the May 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Even astronauts feel a sense of pride toward their alma mater! NASA astronaut Joe Engle, EAA ... Read more

June 26, 2024June 26, 2024

Attitude Flying

Learning to Fly, Member Stories

By Steve Krog, EAA 173799 This piece originally ran in Steve’s Classic Instructor column in the May 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Last week we began working with ... Read more

June 25, 2024July 2, 2024

Snowbirds: Per Ardua Ad Astra

Aerobatics, History, Warbirds

By Michael Martin, EAA 1047599, Toronto, Ontario The Canadian Forces Snowbirds are a classic symbol, and they are about as Canadian as one can ever be. The RCAF’s motto is: ... Read more