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...
by Emme Hornung | Jan 11, 2025 | aviation history, EAA, EAA member, EAA Sport Aviation, History, Member Stories, Ultralight, Ultralights
By Emme Hornung, EAA 1463093 This piece originally ran in the November 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. When you think of Oshkosh, what specific airplanes come to mind? I’m sure many of our members who have been around long enough would immediately think of...
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...
