by EAA | May 5, 2025 | checkpoints, EAA Sport Aviation, Member Stories
By Vic Syracuse, EAA Lifetime 180848 This piece originally ran in Vic’s Checkpoints column in the March 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. One of the most often asked questions I get from buyers is related to the fuel system, specifically whether it is...
by EAA | May 5, 2025 | Classic Instructor, EAA Sport Aviation, Member Stories
By Steve Krog, EAA 173799 This piece originally ran in Steve’s Classic Instructor column in the March 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. One of the most common mistakes seasoned pilots and student pilots make is chasing the airspeed. It’s a challenge for...
by EAA | Apr 20, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviation, Flying Tips, Member Stories, Stick and Rudder
By Robert N. Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the March 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. The shroud of morning fog had just lifted as I taxied cautiously to Runway 07 at Westerly State Airport (KWST) in...
by EAA | Apr 20, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviation, Member Stories, What our Members are Building
By Randy Brooks, EAA Lifetime 165320 This piece originally ran in the March 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. It all started with my dad taking me for my first airplane ride when I was 5, in a Cessna 120 with my brother. I can still remember the huge...
by EAA | Apr 14, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviation, Member Stories
Lisa Turner, EAA Lifetime 509911 This piece originally ran in Lisa’s Airworthy column in the March 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Steve Krog’s “Common Sense” commentary in the December 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation made me pause to consider how the...
by EAA | Apr 2, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviation, Member Stories, Ultralights
By J.C. Smart, EAA 1593637 This piece originally ran in the February 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. While historians will differ, my “golden age of aviation” was as a high school student in the early- to mid-1970s. Growing up in Milwaukee, I was fortunate...
