by EAA | Nov 21, 2024 | Chapters, EAA, EAA member, EAA volunteers, Member Stories, volunteers
By Story and photos by Paul Adams, EAA Chapter 675 President In the title you may notice two things. First, the word “BIG,” and second, “Part 1.” Well, these two comments are related. This is the first of a three-part set of articles on the making of a propeller, a...
by EAA | Nov 9, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, EAA volunteers, Member Stories, volunteers
This piece originally ran in the October 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Linda Thorn, EAA 842022, was honored at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024 as the Dorothy Hilbert Volunteer Award winner. Linda is from a small town near West Bend, Wisconsin, and she started...
by EAA | Oct 10, 2024 | EAA, EAA member, EAA Sport Aviation, EAA volunteers, Member Stories, Volunteer Spotlight, volunteers
This piece originally ran in the September 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Mary Pennington-Hoyt, EAA Lifetime 1057675, is passionate about empowering young girls and women to participate in aviation, and each year she gets to dive into that passion at EAA...
by EAA | Oct 4, 2024 | EAA member, Member Stories, volunteering, volunteers
By Karl Jensen, EAA 554322, EAA Chapter 322 Many EAA members here in South Africa help with flights for The Bataleurs, a group of volunteer pilots who fly for the environment. I was one such pilot who recently undertook a mission for the group — “a mission that made...
by EAA | Sep 13, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA member, EAA Museum, EAA volunteers, Member Stories, volunteers
This piece originally ran in the August 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Craig Olson, EAA 116636, is the chairman of the Emergency Aircraft Repair team at AirVenture, a team dedicated to helping aircraft owners with minor repairs while in Oshkosh. EAR got...
by EAA | Aug 17, 2024 | EAA, EAA Museum, EAA volunteers, volunteer, volunteers
This piece originally ran in the July 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Gale Guilette, EAA 128629, is helping keep aviation history alive, one sheet of metal at a time. Once a week, Gale travels from his home in northern Wisconsin to volunteer in EAA’s...
