by EAA | Nov 28, 2025 | Chapters, Chapters in Action, Recreational, Why We Fly
By Aidan Lara and Ray Ballantyne, EAA 808555, EAA Chapter 430 President “By 2100z on Sunday, Oct. 26th, the TAFs were looking good for the flyout to Roche Harbor for Monday, Oct. 27th, so I sent out the ‘flyout is on’ announcement. By this time, I had 16 confirmed to...
by EAA | Nov 28, 2025 | Homebuilding, Member Stories, Military and Veterans, Why We Fly
By David Paradis, EAA 877365 My RV-8, N814DP, was donated to the Western Antique Aircraft and Automobile Museum in December 2024. I convinced the founder Terry Brandt and his board of directors that even though this aircraft is not an antique, any aircraft museum in...
by EAA | Nov 28, 2025 | Why We Fly, Young Eagles, Youth Outreach
By James Clark, EAA Lifetime 466543 11-year-old Margaret Clark, my daughter, is working on her communications and aviation merit badges for Scouting America, and she would love to share the following: “My dad has been in EAA since he was a kid, and his dad, my...
by EAA | Nov 22, 2025 | aviation history, Honoring The Past, Recreational, Why We Fly
By Marc Breen, EAA 1468014 By 1925, Americans could travel long distances by train or automobile; but the idea of commercial aviation only existed in dreams and imagination. Air travel seemed like an interesting concept, but also was somewhat unreliable at the time,...
by EAA | Nov 7, 2025 | EAA Sport Aviation, Ultralight World, Ultralights, Why We Fly
By Bill Darnell, EAA 576650 This piece originally ran in the September 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. I am told by some of the more senior members of the Michigan Ultralight Association (MULA) Flying Club about past fly-ins and ultralight gatherings. I’ve...
by EAA | Oct 23, 2025 | Chapters, Chapters in Action, Ray Scholar, Why We Fly, women in aviation, Young Eagles
By Mark Kolesar, EAA Lifetime 294238 The Flying Cloud Airport located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, was the site of the 2025 Girls in Aviation Day on September 20, 2025. Three local EAA chapters’ members — South St. Paul Chapter 1229’s Bill Steier, Julie Steier, and...
