by EAA | Nov 3, 2024 | aviation history, EAA, EAA member, History, Member Stories
By Ron Wanttaja, EAA 275698, EAA Chapter 26 & 441 Newsletter Editor Dick Scobee Field in Auburn, Washington, just south of Seattle, has been painting large murals on the end of the hangar rows, celebrating local aviators and groups. Artist Myron Curry’s mural...
by Emme Hornung | Nov 3, 2024 | Aerobatics, aviation history, EAA, History, speaker series
Skip Holm – a highly-accomplished Air Force fighter pilot, Skunk Works test pilot, air show and race pilot, and movie pilot – will be the final speaker for the 2024 Aviation Adventure Speaker Series at the EAA Aviation Museum. Join us on Thursday, November 21, at 7...
by EAA | Nov 3, 2024 | Attic, aviation history, EAA, EAA Attic, EAA Museum, History
This piece originally ran in the September 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Back when a commercial flight was still an event to dress to the nines for, Pan American World Airways commemorated a passenger’s crossing the equator with a little memento. On April...
by EAA | Nov 3, 2024 | aviation history, EAA, EAA member, Honoring The Past, Learning to Fly, Member Stories
By Brian Hart, EAA 1457879 The Old Man was not always old; he had once been young and dreamed of flight. And when he was young, he had an Old Man of his own that dreamed of flight before him. That Old Man, the first of his line to reach boyhood in the aviation age,...
by EAA | Oct 10, 2024 | aviation history, EAA, EAA member, EAA Museum, History
By Hans J. Storck, EAA 1589326, with thanks to Fred Barber, EAA 8784 Al Williams was kicking his 1000-hp Gulfhawk hard over the Cleveland Municipal Airport at the National Air Races air show in August 1931. Ernst Udet was more than impressed with its awesome powerful...
by Dick Knapinski | Oct 10, 2024 | aviation history, EAA, EAA Museum, History, Pioneer Airport
By Dick Knapinski The vintage airplanes out behind the EAA Aviation Museum have always had their stories. Now that their home, Pioneer Airport, has turned 40 years old, that unique group of hangars has reached the point where it has its own stories to tell. Pioneer...
