by EAA | Dec 6, 2024 | EAA, EAA member, EAA Sport Aviation, Homebuilding, Member Stories
By Lisa Turner, EAA Lifetime 509911 This piece originally ran in Lisa’s Airworthy column in the November 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. If you were one of the lucky people wandering the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh grounds this year looking for a project, you...
by EAA | Dec 3, 2024 | EAA, EAA chapter, EAA member, Member Stories, volunteers
Story and photos by Paul Adams, EAA Chapter 675 President In Part 1 of this series, we made a 75-pound blank, and in Part 2 we made a propeller duplicating machine. Now it’s time to merge those two topics together and use the duplicating machine to turn the 75-pound...
by EAA | Dec 3, 2024 | EAA, EAA member, Member Stories, Ultralight, Ultralights
By Nathan Finneman, EAA 1459460 This piece originally ran in the October 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Setting records has always been an interest of mine, being good friends with Bear Grylls who set an unofficial paramotor altitude record of nearly...
by EAA | Dec 3, 2024 | EAA, EAA member, EAA Sport Aviation, Homebuilding, homebuilt, Member Stories
By Vic Syracuse, EAA Lifetime 180848 This piece originally ran in Vic’s Checkpoints column in the October 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. I mentioned I would continue with the RV-10 upgrades, but I have had quite a few requests in the last two months from...
by EAA | Dec 3, 2024 | Chapters, EAA, EAA chapter, EAA member, EAA Young Eagles, Member Stories, Youth & Young Eagles
By Carol Enright, Wings of Hope At a hangar at Spirit of St. Louis Airport (KSUS) in Chesterfield, Missouri, EAA Chapter 1675 and aviation nonprofit Wings of Hope have forged a special relationship. For the past three years, the local EAA chapter has been providing...
by EAA | Nov 24, 2024 | AirVenture, Attic, aviation history, EAA, EAA Attic, EAA Museum
This piece originally ran in the October 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. “AirVenture” goes by many names: Some call it “the convention,” others simply “Oshkosh,” locals call it “EAA,” but in 1969 it was the “Sport Aviation Convention.” The event was held in...
