by EAA | Sep 22, 2024 | EAA, EAA member, Flying Tips, Homebuilding, homebuilt airplane, Member Stories
In a recent piece for EAA Sport Aviation, EAA member Scott Knowlton takes us through the rebuild of a derelict Fly Baby biplane. The post What Our Members Are Building/Restoring — Ontario Bowers Fly Baby Biplane first appeared on Hangar Flying. Read...
by EAA | Sep 13, 2024 | buying an aircraft, Flying Tips, Homebuilding, homebuilt
By Lisa Turner, EAA Lifetime 509911 This piece originally ran in Lisa’s Airworthy column in the August 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. An unexpressed thought sometimes hides like an aftertaste in my brain as I pick up the for-sale flyers for aircraft and...
by EAA | Aug 23, 2024 | EAA, EAA member, Homebuilding, Member Stories, WOMB
By Keith Eisberg, EAA Lifetime 1136501 This piece originally ran in the July 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. My SkyRocket, a kitbuilt Glasair Sportsman, is my first kitbuilt aircraft. It is also the first kit sold by Glasair and the first kit flying. The...
by EAA | Aug 17, 2024 | EAA, EAA member, Homebuilding, Member Stories
By Lisa Turner, EAA Lifetime 509911 This piece originally ran in Lisa’s Airworthy column in the July 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. “Now that you’re a pilot, you need an airplane.” Ellen cocked her head and looked at me with a questioning look. “Sure, but...
by Angela Satterlee | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, Homebuilding, homebuilt, homebuilt aircraft, women in aviation
By Angela Satterlee Rylie Remar is making waves for all young women involved in aviation. She is a 21-year-old woman from Poplar Grove, Illinois, who decided that simply buying a new airplane wasn’t enough — she had to rebuild a 1990 Burt Rutan VariEze (N64HL) and...
by Sam Oleson | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, Homebuilding, workshop
By Sam Oleson Call him the George Costanza of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024. Randy Rettler, EAA 1030161, may not wear oven mitts to protect his hands like George did in “The Puffy Shirt,” the 1993 episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, but he does have experience as a hand...
