by EAA | Sep 28, 2024 | EAA member, Homebuilding, homebuilt aircraft, International Pilots, Member Stories
By Sabu Sivaraman, EAA Lifetime 709426 Though India has a very long aviation history and is now considered the fastest growing aviation market, experimental aviation or recreational aviation is almost non-existent in the country now. When the country was under British...
by EAA | Aug 17, 2024 | AirVenture, Chapters, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA chapter, International Pilots
By Athol Franz, EAA 680260 Having spent 23 years attending AirVenture camping with Neil Bowden’s South African group, once again this year I have been like a young boy all over again with so much “eye candy” on the Oshkosh airfield. It is almost impossible to take in...
by EAA | Jul 30, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, flying in, International Pilots, Member Stories
By Andrea Venturini A nonstop Atlantic crossing, from Scotland to Canada, a trip that typically can only be done via airliner, was achieved on June 14, 2024, in a two-seat, Rotax-powered Risen SuperVeloce. It all started last December, with a phone call I received...
by Angela Satterlee | Jul 30, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, flying in, International Pilots, Member Stories
By Angela Satterlee Twenty-two Hungarian aviation enthusiasts were welcomed to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, their last stop on a week-and-a-half-long trip around the world. The trip began on Wednesday, July 17, and will end on July 29, and was organized by GoforGo Travel...
by EAA | Jul 27, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, International Pilots, Member Stories, women in aviation
By Barbara A. Schmitz Kathrin Kaiser isn’t sure why she loves flying. But growing up in East Germany with its barbed wire and secret police, she felt like she was a prisoner at times since she wasn’t allowed to travel until the Berlin Wall came down in late 1989. “Now...
by EAA | Jul 27, 2024 | AirVenture, DR340, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, German Pilot, International Pilots
Thank goodness for bad weather in Canada. Without it, Markus Schloter, of Rheinberg, Germany, might not have changed his plans and diverted to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. “I had planned to fly to the United States because it has always been a dream of mine to cross the...
