by EAA | Aug 17, 2024 | EAA, EAA Museum, EAA volunteers, volunteer, volunteers
This piece originally ran in the July 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Gale Guilette, EAA 128629, is helping keep aviation history alive, one sheet of metal at a time. Once a week, Gale travels from his home in northern Wisconsin to volunteer in EAA’s...
by EAA | Aug 2, 2024 | Attic, aviation history, EAA, EAA Museum, History, museum
This piece originally ran in the June 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. This XP-51 ammo can is an original component from the EAA Aviation Museum’s North American XP-51 Mustang. The museum’s Mustang is the oldest surviving Mustang in the world, as well as the...
by EAA | Jun 27, 2024 | astronaut, Attic, aviation history, EAA Museum, History, museum, nasa
This piece originally ran in the May 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Even astronauts feel a sense of pride toward their alma mater! NASA astronaut Joe Engle, EAA 390011, grew up in Chapman, Kansas, and eventually earned his Bachelor of Science degree in...
by Angela Satterlee | Jun 21, 2024 | AC-208 Caravan, cessna, EAA Aviation Museum, EAA Museum, U.S. Air Force
Maj. Dan Jackson is an active duty U.S. Air Force officer and is the next speaker in EAA’s Aviation Adventure Speaker Series. In his time in the Air Force, Dan completed 236 combat missions and 125 combat support missions in an experimental attack version of a Cessna...
by EAA | Jun 1, 2024 | EAA Museum, EAA Sport Aviation
Aircraft drawings connect designers to the engineers who build our favorite aircraft, so legibility is key. Before word processors and CAD software, the Leroy lettering set was used to fill in the title blocks of aircraft drawings. The post EAA’s Attic — Leroy...
by Emme Hornung | Jan 12, 2024 | EAA Museum, speaker series
Dr. Brett Hoffman, a senior member of the University of Wisconsin Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project, will share the history of the project and dive into work accomplished so far, as well as future developments, in his presentation at the EAA...
