by EAA | Aug 30, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviation, Member Stories, What our Members are Building
By Joe Rymer, EAA 760858 This piece originally ran in the July 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. From an early age, I was always interested in any type of flight and ultimately dreamed of owning my own aircraft someday. I fondly remember as a young boy...
by EAA | Jul 19, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviation, Member Stories, What our Members are Building
By Steve Campbell, EAA 289109 This piece originally ran in the June 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. When I started my Velocity SE project in 2016, I was not thinking about a military paint scheme. At the time, I was planning to mimic Tom Irion’s...
by EAA | Jun 19, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviation, Homebuilding, Member Stories, What our Members are Building
By Jeffrey Orear, EAA 529128 This piece originally ran in the May 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. I became interested in building a Hatz biplane after seeing Chuck Brownlow’s (EAA 323477) Bronze Lindy winning Classic many years ago. I’ve always had a soft...
by EAA | May 17, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviaiton, Member Stories, What our Members are Building
By Estevan Roth, EAA 1072339 This piece originally ran in the April 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. In the early 1990s, in Bolivia, South America, my father embarked on a remarkable journey — to construct a plansbuilt airplane for a customer, a...
by EAA | Apr 20, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviation, Member Stories, What our Members are Building
By Randy Brooks, EAA Lifetime 165320 This piece originally ran in the March 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. It all started with my dad taking me for my first airplane ride when I was 5, in a Cessna 120 with my brother. I can still remember the huge...
by EAA | Mar 21, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviaiton, Homebuilding, Member Stories, What our Members are Building
By Louis Rosner, EAA Lifetime 422425 This piece originally ran in the February 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. This is my Panther Sport built from a Sport Performance Aviation kit and completed in 2024. After earning an airworthiness certificate on...
