by Dick Knapinski | Oct 10, 2024 | aviation history, EAA, EAA Museum, History, Pioneer Airport
By Dick Knapinski The vintage airplanes out behind the EAA Aviation Museum have always had their stories. Now that their home, Pioneer Airport, has turned 40 years old, that unique group of hangars has reached the point where it has its own stories to tell. Pioneer...
by EAA | Oct 10, 2024 | aviation history, EAA, EAA member, EAA Museum, History
By Hans J. Storck, EAA 1589326, with thanks to Fred Barber, EAA 8784 Al Williams was kicking his 1000-hp Gulfhawk hard over the Cleveland Municipal Airport at the National Air Races air show in August 1931. Ernst Udet was more than impressed with its awesome powerful...
by EAA | Oct 10, 2024 | EAA, EAA member, EAA Sport Aviation, EAA volunteers, Member Stories, Volunteer Spotlight, volunteers
This piece originally ran in the September 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Mary Pennington-Hoyt, EAA Lifetime 1057675, is passionate about empowering young girls and women to participate in aviation, and each year she gets to dive into that passion at EAA...
by EAA | Oct 10, 2024 | aviation repair, EAA, EAA member, EAA Sport Aviaiton, Flying Tips, Homebuilding, inspection, Member Stories, propeller
By Lisa Turner, EAA Lifetime 509911 This piece originally ran in Lisa’s Airworthy column in the September 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. I left the FBO and walked out to the porch, where a few seats were left on the benches. It was a bright and crisp...
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...
