by EAA | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, learn to fly, Learning to Fly, Member Stories
By Barbara A. Schmitz To say Jessica Cox, of Tucson, Arizonia, has a can-do attitude is a massive understatement. She was born without arms and learned to do things with her feet that many people think can’t be done. “Before I had LASIK surgery, I used to put contacts...
by Sam Oleson | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, Member Stories
By Sam Oleson Last summer, Paul Barnett nearly lost his right leg. A little more than a year later, he’s helping folks climb up into the cockpit of the Corsair he flew in for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024. Paul, EAA Lifetime 456283, a longtime warbird pilot from...
by Angela Satterlee | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, Member Stories, Sling Aircraft
By Angela Satterlee Mike Blyth — a test pilot, entrepreneur, and aircraft lover who founded Sling Aircraft — is the winner of the Dr. August Raspet Memorial Award this year. He accepted it on Wednesday, July 24, from the director of EAA chapters and homebuilding,...
by Angela Satterlee | Jul 21, 2024 | AirVenture, Dorothy Hilbert Award, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, EAA volunteers, Member Stories
By Angela Satterlee Linda Thorn is the winner of this year’s Dorothy Hilbert Award, which honors a female volunteer who exhibits the same passion, dedication, and devotion for volunteerism as did the late Dorothy Hilbert. Linda is from a small town near West Bend, and...
by EAA | Jul 18, 2024 | EAA, EAA member, Member Stories
By Michael Haney, EAA Lifetime 1133354 This piece originally ran in the June 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. The story begins June 2021 in Mojave, California. I bought the aircraft from longtime friends and customers. The husband died, and the wife’s health...
by EAA | Jul 18, 2024 | chapter, EAA, EAA member, Member Stories
By Robert N. Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the June 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Last fall, my wife and I had an opportunity to take a balloon flight across the early morning skies in Tampa, Florida....
