by EAA | Mar 30, 2025 | Bits and Pieces, Member Stories
AirVenture Adventures: Chapter 2 How Two Idiots and an Airplane Managed to Fly to Oshkosh and Back By Dave Stanchuk, EAA 1141923, and Doug Daverne, EAA 1161768; EAA Chapter 154, Regina, Saskatchewan In the process of building our RV-10 there are many decisions to...
by EAA | Mar 9, 2025 | AirVenture, Bits and Pieces, Member Stories
By Dave Stanchuk, EAA 1141923, and Doug Daverne, EAA 1161768; Chapter 154 Regina In the process of building our RV-10, there are many decisions to make on avionics and other equipment. And, of course, the best place to make these informed decisions is at EAA...
by EAA | Mar 9, 2025 | Bits and Pieces
By John Wyman, EAA 462533, Chapter 266 Montreal “Just what part of ‘Easier and More Convenient’ do you not understand?” That was the comic strip’s punchline that inspired me to write this. It captured my frustration these days with technology that is supposed to...
by EAA | Mar 9, 2025 | Bits and Pieces, taildragger
By Mike Davenport, EAA 89102, Vancouver, British Columbia Like most who were student pilots in the early 1980s, I trained in a Cessna 150. In February of ‘82, I began what was to be a long engagement with tailwheel aircraft. Early on, I had the opportunity to fly a...
by EAA | Mar 9, 2025 | airport, Bits and Pieces, Member Stories
By Chris Strube, EAA 738689; Lillooet, British Columbia; CYLI, Member, BCGA Shortly after becoming a pilot in 1981, I got a lesson in diplomacy. Coutts/Ross International Airport (CEP4) was an unfenced grass and dirt strip, straddling the U.S./Canada border. A friend...
by EAA | Feb 4, 2025 | Bits and Pieces, Canada, flying, pilot
By Jacques Rivest, MD, Montmagny, Québec My sister Jocelyne asked me recently to write something about the origins and evolution of my passion for all things aviation, at the heart of my passage through life. I should say first of all, that I am passionate about...
