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August 7, 2025October 20, 2025

An Instructor Wears Many Hats

Learn to Fly, Tips
By Steve Krog, EAA 173799 This piece originally ran in Steve’s Classic Instructor column in the June 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine.   One evening after a day ... Read more
August 7, 2025October 29, 2025

2025 Pietenpol Reunion Photo Gallery

Vintage
By James Lipman, EAA 1235855 The 2025 Pietenpol Reunion at Brodhead Airport in Brodhead, Wisconsin, supported by EAA Chapter 431, took place July 17-20. These homebuilt aircraft and their pilots ... Read more
August 7, 2025October 31, 2025

EAA Chapter 5 Hosts Youth Summer Camp

Chapters, Youth Outreach
By Sherry Niederkorn, EAA Lifetime 1277308   The EAA Chapter 5 Summer Youth Aviation Camp 2025 is officially in the logbook and on record for “reaching the sky” with this ... Read more
August 7, 2025October 31, 2025

EAA Chapter 406 Rolls Out Solar-Powered Electric Xenos

Chapters, Homebuilding
By Bremerton Aviation Center for Education The Bremerton Aviation Center for Education (BACE), an independent project that works in partnership with local EAA Chapter 406, rolled out its electric-powered Xenos ... Read more
August 4, 2025August 4, 2025

Barney Dunlevy Gone West

Member Stories
By Mike Davenport Barney Dunlevy passed away earlier this year after a long illness that had increasingly affected both his mobility and eyesight. However, this had no effect on either ... Read more
August 4, 2025November 4, 2025

Heat Shrink Wire Clamps

Homebuilding, Tips
By Brad Lawrence In building experimental aircraft, there’s always one or two wires that have to depart from the harness and go across the panel or firewall by themselves. Plastic ... Read more
August 4, 2025October 31, 2025

EAA Chapter 115 Highlights

Chapters, EAA Canada
By Bill MacKay, EAA 1190268, Chapter 115 Treasurer, Plattsville, Ontario   EAA Chapter 115 meets at Edward’s Air Base (Plattsville Aerodome, CLB2) every Saturday for breakfast with a formal meeting ... Read more
August 4, 2025October 17, 2025

Bits and Pieces: First Look at the RV-15

AirVenture, EAA Canada
By Shiv Ram Krishna, EAA 1549613, EAA Canada Attendees at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025 were treated to a much-anticipated reveal by Van’s Aircraft: the RV-15, a prototype high-wing design that ... Read more
August 4, 2025October 31, 2025

Canadian Welcome Barbeque at Oshkosh

AirVenture, EAA Canada
By Ian Brown, EAA 657159, Editor, Bits and Pieces Arriving at Oshkosh and camping ahead of opening day provides the opportunity to attend our “Welcome to Oshkosh” barbecue on Sunday ... Read more
July 26, 2025October 31, 2025

Have a Seat!

AirVenture, Chapters
By Barbara A. Schmitz It started in about 2018 with a simple concept: Have EAA Chapters build chairs for the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh that give chapter members and others a ... Read more
July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

Parachutes and Power Moves

AirVenture
At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the Tuesday and Thursday air shows featured the Golden Knights, and the air shows on Monday and Wednesday featured the Misty Blues parachuting teams. But across ... Read more
July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

What AirVenture Oshkosh Means to Me

AirVenture, Why We Fly
By Robbie Culver Any one of you reading these words could have written them. I know I am just lucky enough to be the one doing so. EAA AirVenture Oshkosh ... Read more
July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

50th Anniversary Celebrated at AirVenture

AirVenture, Member Stories
Fifty years ago, Jack, EAA Lifetime 69122, and Anne McCombs, EAA Lifetime 78375, honeymooned in the most fitting place imaginable for two aviation lovers: the EAA Oshkosh fly-in. In 1975 ... Read more
July 26, 2025October 17, 2025

Oshkosh!

AirVenture
Rocking your wings, and landing on the dot. Powered parachutes drifting gently overhead. The taut fabric of a biplane’s wings glistening with dew at dawn. The proud lines of an ... Read more
July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

The Dynamic Dyer

AirVenture, Volunteers
By Barbara A. Schmitz John Dyer said he is a protégé of the Civil Rights Movement. Born in Atlanta in 1949, he remembers Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a ... Read more
July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

Santa Makes AirVenture ‘The Most Wonderful Time of the Year’

AirVenture, Volunteers
By Barbara A. Schmitz For Keith Miller, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. And the people who see him are likely thinking that, too. After all, what could be ... Read more
July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

Four Women. Four Cubs. One Destination

AirVenture
Five years ago, Jackie Burch was terrified of flying. Now, she’s flown many different aircraft types, including a CubCrafters NXCub out of its base in Yakima, Washington, all the way ... Read more
July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

From Argentina to AirVenture and Back

AirVenture, Member Stories
By Barbara A. Schmitz As soon as EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024 was over, Daniel Giuliani and his son Valentino decided they would come back in 2025. But for the first ... Read more
July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

Here Since Day One

Honoring The Past, 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 26, 2025October 20, 2025

Teen Cousins Grant and Abby Fly Their Grandfather’s Stearman to Oshkosh

AirVenture, Youth Outreach
At just 18 years old, cousins Grant, EAA Lifetime 1507620, and Abby Keller are two of the youngest members of EAA Chapter 384, and they’ve already made their mark by ... Read more
July 26, 2025October 22, 2025

Set in Stone

AirVenture, Member Stories
By Larry Rogien All of us have crossed paths with people who influenced us. Over the years at Oshkosh, I have had opportunities to meet and converse with people like ... Read more
July 25, 2025October 20, 2025

Coming Together to Fill in the Gaps

AirVenture, Volunteers
In the high-energy world of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, there’s a lot that goes unnoticed behind the scenes. But helping you find your way around the grounds or find a specific ... Read more
July 25, 2025October 31, 2025

Grilling Up a Good Time

AirVenture, Chapters
By Barbara A. Schmitz It’s the “one week wonder” of pancake grills. AirVenture attendees and chapter members are helping to fabricate and assemble a pancake grill in the Young Eagles ... Read more
July 25, 2025October 31, 2025

Gzhewaadziwin and Mnaadendamowin

AirVenture, Member Stories
By Bob Goulais, EAA 1509922 It is a genuine pleasure to be a part of the greatest spectacle in aviation — EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. Without a doubt, it is the ... Read more
July 25, 2025October 31, 2025

Reuniting Under the Rotary Blade

AirVenture, Member Stories
By Paul Petr It’s that time of year again — EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. The moment my boots hit the tarmac, I felt that familiar mix of excitement and nostalgia. The ... Read more

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