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January 2, 2020October 17, 2025

Ray Scholar Earns Private Pilot Certificate

Learn to Fly, Milestones
Ray Aviation Scholarship recipient Hayden Brooks recently earned his private pilot certificate. ... Read more
December 19, 2019November 4, 2025

The Shoulders of Giants

Honoring The Past
Recreations of two revolutionary aircraft recently flew together over the sand dunes of North Carolina. ... Read more
December 18, 2019October 31, 2025

EAA’s The Green Dot — CAF Tora! Wing Pilot Taylor Stevenson

Podcast, Warbirds
The Green Dot crew sat down with CAF Tora! Wing pilot Taylor Stevenson to talk about his aviation roots, the aircraft and mission of the Tora! Wing, and much more. ... Read more
December 18, 2019October 20, 2025

Anything Can Happen — Preparing for the Winter Flying Season

Tips
As the Earth tilts into the winter season, pilots need to prepare for the coming chill. ... Read more
December 18, 2019October 17, 2025

No More Limits

Member Stories, Milestones, Youth Outreach
After hours of instruction, memorizing procedures and movements of the airplane, my instructor had prepared me for one of the biggest steps I would ever dream of taking as a ... Read more
December 17, 2019October 17, 2025

Milestone — Ray Scholar Solos

Chapters, Milestones
Lily Busenbark, EAA 1293705, achieved a Ray scholar milestone on November 22, 2019, when she soloed in a PA-28-140 Cherokee at the Columbus Airport (KCSG) in Georgia. ... Read more
December 17, 2019December 17, 2019

EAA Chapter 414 Gives Back for Christmas

Chapters
On Saturday, December 7, members of EAA Chapter 414 in Waukegan, Illinois, decided to forego the typical white elephant office Christmas party and instead give back. ... Read more
December 11, 2019November 6, 2025

More Than One Mission

Member Stories, Why We Fly
Eric Sampson’s recent Eagle Flight had an ulterior motive. ... Read more
December 10, 2019December 10, 2019

What Our Members Are Building/Restoring — North Carolina Just SuperSTOL

From The Hangar Floor, Homebuilding
In the midst of the stressful process of selling my business over the course of 18 months, I kept telling myself, “If I get out of this with two nickels ... Read more
December 10, 2019October 20, 2025

Crosswind Takeoffs 2.0 — Understanding the Factors

Tips
Crosswinds are not inherently dangerous. All pilots should challenge themselves and practice them from time to time. ... Read more
December 5, 2019October 31, 2025

EAA’s The Green Dot — SR-71 Pilot Col. Richard Graham

Podcast, Warbirds
This time on EAA’s The Green Dot, the crew was joined by former U.S. Air Force Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird pilot Col. Richard Graham, EAA 823636, to talk about his introduction ... Read more
December 5, 2019October 29, 2025

EAA’s Attic — Emergency Sustenance Kit — Type E-3

Attic, EAA Museum
This World War II escape-and-sustenance kit was developed by the U.S. Army Materiel Command and designed to be hidden in a jacket pocket and carried by air crew. ... Read more
December 5, 2019October 17, 2025

EAA’s Ray Aviation Scholarship Fund

Chapters, Youth Outreach
Through the generous support of the Ray Foundation, EAA provided up to $10,000 to 100 deserving youths for their flight training expenses in 2019, with the support of EAA’s chapter ... Read more
December 5, 2019December 5, 2019

Leveraging Smarts — EAA Founder’s Innovation Prize Taps Member Expertise

AirVenture
Now in its fourth year, the Founder’s Innovation Prize welcomes technology or training improvements that may be implemented easily and inexpensively throughout the entire GA fleet to reduce loss-of-control accidents. ... Read more
December 4, 2019October 20, 2025

EAA Receives 4 Diorama Donations

EAA Museum
Harold and Gloria Kintzle’s late son, Shawn Kintzle, 56, EAA 337064, had just one dying wish: that his dioramas be donated and displayed at EAA. ... Read more
November 27, 2019October 20, 2025

The Personal Preflight — Assessing Your Readiness

Tips
Like a set of steel brake rotors, it doesn’t take very long for a coating of rust to form if our skills haven’t been exercised recently. ... Read more
November 27, 2019November 27, 2019

EAA Chapter Supports FBO Library

Chapters
What do you do with more than 1,000 aviation magazines? ... Read more
November 27, 2019November 7, 2025

EAA Members Honored in Kansas

Member Stories
Five EAAers among the 25 people inducted into the International Forest of Friendship. ... Read more
November 21, 2019October 17, 2025

The DeLand Naval Air Station Museum

Honoring The Past, Warbirds
A museum that’s easy to miss, and well worth a visit. ... Read more
November 21, 2019October 17, 2025

EAA Chapter 148 Ray Scholar Earns Private Pilot Certificate

Chapters, Milestones
EAA Chapter 148’s Ray Aviation Scholarship recipient Hayden Kehres was able to complete his training in just 129 days and 43 flying hours. ... Read more
November 21, 2019November 21, 2019

Urban Air Mobility at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019

AirVenture
There’s a lot of talk about — and a lot of money being spent on — what’s being called urban air mobility these days. ... Read more
November 21, 2019November 4, 2025

Blakesburg!

Honoring The Past, Vintage
Every Labor Day weekend, about 350 airplanes descend on Antique Airfield, about 180 idyllic acres of gently rolling Iowa grass just west of Ottumwa, for the Antique Airplane Association’s annual ... Read more
November 21, 2019October 31, 2025

EAA’s The Green Dot — BuzzBall Inventor Ethan Brodsky

Podcast
The Green Dot crew was joined by Ethan Brodsky, the winner of the 2019 Founder’s Innovation Prize and inventor of BuzzBall, to talk about how his device uses tactile feedback ... Read more
November 20, 2019November 5, 2025

What Our Members Are Building/Restoring — Illinois Waco UPF-7

From The Hangar Floor, Vintage
About 25 years ago, one of my best friends was restoring his third UPF-7. He and his dad have been in the Waco community for more than 40 years, and ... Read more
November 20, 2019November 5, 2025

Building an Airport Tetrahedron

Member Stories

A different sort of homebuilt project.

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