by EAA | Oct 4, 2024 | EAA member, Member Stories, volunteering, volunteers
By Karl Jensen, EAA 554322, EAA Chapter 322 Many EAA members here in South Africa help with flights for The Bataleurs, a group of volunteer pilots who fly for the environment. I was one such pilot who recently undertook a mission for the group — “a mission that made...
by EAA | Oct 4, 2024 | aviation history, EAA, EAA member, History, Member Stories, Ultralight
By David Smith, EAA 1298935, and Ronald Smith This piece originally ran in the August 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Following much reporting on the Hang Loose hang glider in various media through the fall of 1970 and into 1971, Jack Lambie came back to...
by EAA | Oct 4, 2024 | EAA, EAA member, EAA Sport Aviation, Member Stories
By Vic Syracuse, EAA Lifetime 180848 This piece originally ran in Vic’s Checkpoints column in the August 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Well. That’s a title that should get everyone’s attention. I know by now some of you are wondering if you are going to...
by EAA | Oct 1, 2024 | Bits 'n Pieces, Bits and Pieces, BNP, EAA member, Member Stories
By Mike Davenport, EAA 89102, Langley, British Columbia The Thursday night dinner special at Mary’s Bleue Moon Café was fish and chips. What better reason does one need to take two airplanes and five hungry people to Victoria on Vancouver Island? Five of us mounted a...
by EAA | Oct 1, 2024 | Bits 'n Pieces, Bits and Pieces, BNP, EAA, EAA member, Learning to Fly
By John Wyman, EAA 462533, Chapter 266 Montreal For the longest time, I have been contemplating the hurdles to get a pilot license and FLY! It seems that the endeavour should be straightforward and well mapped out. I realize that it is NOT the same for everyone. No...
by EAA | Sep 28, 2024 | EAA member, Homebuilding, homebuilt aircraft, International Pilots, Member Stories
By Sabu Sivaraman, EAA Lifetime 709426 Though India has a very long aviation history and is now considered the fastest growing aviation market, experimental aviation or recreational aviation is almost non-existent in the country now. When the country was under British...
