by Emme Hornung | Nov 3, 2024 | Aerobatics, aviation history, EAA, History, speaker series
Skip Holm – a highly-accomplished Air Force fighter pilot, Skunk Works test pilot, air show and race pilot, and movie pilot – will be the final speaker for the 2024 Aviation Adventure Speaker Series at the EAA Aviation Museum. Join us on Thursday, November 21, at 7...
by EAA | Nov 3, 2024 | Attic, aviation history, EAA, EAA Attic, EAA Museum, History
This piece originally ran in the September 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Back when a commercial flight was still an event to dress to the nines for, Pan American World Airways commemorated a passenger’s crossing the equator with a little memento. On April...
by EAA | Oct 19, 2024 | EAA, EAA member, EAA Sport Aviation, History, Homebuilding, Member Stories
By Tim Fiedler, EAA Lifetime 256056 This piece originally ran in the September 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. This was started in 1992 by Jim LePard, an A&P/IA mechanic who resides near Spokane, Washington, who substantially completed the airframe...
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 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 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...
