by EAA | Jul 4, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviation, Member Stories, Ultralight, Ultralights
By Mark Murray, EAA 394554 This piece originally ran in the May 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. What you’ve dreaded so long, practiced for, and feared, just happened: Engine failure! Thank goodness it happened at altitude during cruise, and not on that...
by EAA | Jun 1, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviation, Member Stories, Ultralight, Ultralights
By Jon Eisele, EAA Lifetime 739102 This piece originally ran in the April 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. As winter loosens its grip and the days begin to grow longer, pilots across the ultralight community eagerly await returning to the sky. After months...
by EAA | May 5, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviation, Member Stories, Ultralight, Ultralights
By George Karamitis, EAA 144192 This piece originally ran in the March 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Folks, I am going through a most difficult time. I am grounded. After almost 80 years of an intense love affair with airplanes and flight in general, I...
by EAA | Apr 2, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviation, Member Stories, Ultralights
By J.C. Smart, EAA 1593637 This piece originally ran in the February 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. While historians will differ, my “golden age of aviation” was as a high school student in the early- to mid-1970s. Growing up in Milwaukee, I was fortunate...
by EAA | Mar 9, 2025 | flying, Member Stories, Ultralight, Ultralights
By Kevin Szalapski, EAA 792226 This piece originally ran in the January 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. All winter long, I had envisioned a long cross-country flight with my weight-shift trike. I meticulously planned the route and had the perfect co-pilot...
by EAA | Feb 10, 2025 | Member Stories, Ultralight, Ultralights
This piece originally ran in the December 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. By George Karamitis, EAA 144192 Not a day goes by that someone doesn’t ask, “George, how can I fly like that?” And most of the people asking already own an aircraft! That question is...
