July 22, 2024October 17, 2025

Two-Thirds Scale TTP38 Volar’s Lightning

AirVenture, Homebuilding

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, 2024October 20, 2025

First ‘One Week Wonder’ turns 10

AirVenture, Homebuilding

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, 2024October 20, 2025

EAA Member Helps Preserve History at National Air and Space Museum

Honoring The Past, 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, 2024October 20, 2025

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, 2024October 20, 2025

Ladies Love Taildraggers

AirVenture, Vintage, Why We Fly

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, 2024October 16, 2025

Wisconsin Air National Guard Debuts Boom Simulator

AirVenture, Learn 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, 2024October 17, 2025

Linda Thorn — EAA’s 2024 Dorothy Hilbert Award Winner

AirVenture, Volunteers

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, 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

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, 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

July 20, 2024October 17, 2025

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, 2024October 20, 2025

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, 2024October 20, 2025

Michigan Students Refurbish Homebuilders Welcome Wagon

AirVenture, Volunteers

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, 2024October 20, 2025

What Our Members Are Building/Restoring — California Cessna 182

Member Stories, Vintage

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, 2024October 17, 2025

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, 2024October 31, 2025

EAA Chapter 478 Young Eagles Build and Fly Summer Camp

Chapters, Youth Outreach

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, 2024October 31, 2025

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

Chapters, Youth Outreach

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, 2024October 29, 2025

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, 2024October 17, 2025

Should You Install a Parachute in Your Homebuilt?

Homebuilding, Tips

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, 2024October 17, 2025

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, 2024October 17, 2025

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, 2024October 17, 2025

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

AirVenture, Youth Outreach

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, 2024October 31, 2025

EAA Chapter 1682 Hosts Rally on International Young Eagles Day

Chapters, Youth Outreach

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, 2024October 17, 2025

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, 2024November 6, 2025

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

Learn to Fly, 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