by EAA | Jul 27, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, International Pilots, Member Stories, women in aviation
By Barbara A. Schmitz Kathrin Kaiser isn’t sure why she loves flying. But growing up in East Germany with its barbed wire and secret police, she felt like she was a prisoner at times since she wasn’t allowed to travel until the Berlin Wall came down in late 1989. “Now...
by Angela Satterlee | Jul 27, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, Member Stories, women in aviation
By Angela Satterlee The pink airplane that can be spotted from around the grounds is the first of its kind, making its world debut at AirVenture 2024. With a fresh pink paint job only 1 week old, the L-39 Albatros is already attracting many viewers on the runway. On...
by EAA | Jul 27, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, Member Stories, Ray Scholar, women in aviation
By Robbie Culver Ballet, airplanes, grace, discipline. For Mary Elizabeth Kurek, EAA 1333410 and current Ray Aviation scholar for EAA Chapter 461 in Bolingbrook, Illinois, these ideas fit well together. Ballet and airplanes. Her friends and extended family know her as...
by Angela Satterlee | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, gyroplane, gyroplanes, Member Stories, women in aviation
By Angela Satterlee You could call it a gyro-dynamic experience, but for Sue Benua, EAA Lifetime 1262570, it was an unforgettable trip. Sue arrived Thursday in Oshkosh after a weather delay of three days, flying her 2017 turquoise AutoGyro Cavalon, for a long trip of...
by Angela Satterlee | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, Homebuilding, homebuilt, homebuilt aircraft, women in aviation
By Angela Satterlee Rylie Remar is making waves for all young women involved in aviation. She is a 21-year-old woman from Poplar Grove, Illinois, who decided that simply buying a new airplane wasn’t enough — she had to rebuild a 1990 Burt Rutan VariEze (N64HL) and...
by EAA | Jul 24, 2024 | AirVenture, EAA, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA member, Member Stories, p-51, women in aviation
By Barbara A. Schmitz Vicky Benzing wanted to fly a P-51 so bad that she took the training course to get qualified in the Mustang in hopes that someone would need her to ferry one. When that didn’t happen, her husband gave her a die-cast model of a Mustang. But today...
