by EAA | Mar 21, 2025 | volunteer, Volunteer Spotlight, volunteers
By Christopher Gauger, EAA 746128, EAA Chapter Field Representative I This piece originally ran in the February 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Dwayne Waters, EAA 422289, has been serving as president of Merritt Island EAA Chapter 724 since January 2019,...
by EAA | Feb 16, 2025 | AirVenture, EAA volunteers, volunteers
This piece originally ran in the January 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Coming from Alaska every year, Judy Knight is a proud volunteer at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh and has been for 29 years. Judy started working with the Hospitality Tent for a few years,...
by EAA | Jan 17, 2025 | EAA member, EAA Sport Aviation, EAA volunteers, Member Stories, volunteering, volunteers
This piece originally ran in the December 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Christina LaVicka, EAA Lifetime 1547942, can’t quite pinpoint when she became an aviation enthusiast, but she knows it started with a “Did you know?” at an air show when she was...
by EAA | Dec 6, 2024 | EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, EAA member, EAA volunteers, Member Stories, Volunteer Spotlight, volunteers
This piece originally ran in the November 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Kyle Breon, EAA 1335139, has been coming to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh pretty much since he was born. His dad, Shawn Breon, EAA 501777, has always loved aviation, volunteering as a...
by EAA | Dec 3, 2024 | EAA, EAA chapter, EAA member, Member Stories, volunteers
Story and photos by Paul Adams, EAA Chapter 675 President In Part 1 of this series, we made a 75-pound blank, and in Part 2 we made a propeller duplicating machine. Now it’s time to merge those two topics together and use the duplicating machine to turn the 75-pound...
by EAA | Nov 24, 2024 | chapter, Chapters, EAA chapter, EAA member, EAA volunteers, Member Stories, volunteers
Story and photos by Paul Adams, EAA Chapter 675 President In Part 1 of making this BIG propeller, I wrote about the purchase of 271 pounds of cherry wood and the activities associated with turning this stack of wood into a 75-pound billet for the making of a prop for...
