FAA Hypoxia Training Fills The Moment the Hangar Door Opens
There has been a line of about 50-100 people waiting each day when the hangar door open and the slots fill within minutes.
Little Audrey Interesting Oddity
I've seen "Little Audrey" hanging in the EAA museum many times, but never really noticed this little detail before. It is common for airplanes...
Old Pilot’s Camper Journal: Sun ‘n Fun 2022 #4
Being an old person, and being in the state of Florida, an inordinate fraction of the day is spent contemplating my next meal. When...
Amy's RV-10: Checking Out a Newborn Engine Before Flight
That Lycoming IO-540 on our nascent Van's RV-10 is about 10 minutes old now, and still a sweetheart. Each engine start tested another function,...
Aeroparentage
What I most admire about Karl is that he has religiously taken every single one of his five children, one on one, both as kids and teenagers to Oshkosh. Amazing.
EAA Talks Homebuilt Reform With FAA
The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) says that its Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification (MOSAIC) rulemaking initiative has made substantial progress after a meeting with...
Aspen Introduces New E5 Features
Aspen Avionics introduced several new features for its Evolution E5 electronic flight instrument (EFI) on Thursday. New additions to the E5 include a “traditional”...
Aerospoiler System Foils Storm Damage
Tim Tuinder knows about hurricanes. He and his wife, Sharon, run a missionary air service, Harvest Air, out of Puerto Rico, supporting orphanages in...
It Still Wants to Fly!
Sitting in the grass outside the Aeroplane Factory, the Moni Motorglider sits just waiting for John Monnett to come back back for a flight....
Van's Banquet
If it's Tuesday night at AirVenture, it must be the Van's Aircraft Banquet night. A couple hundred RV builders, owners, vendors, and wannabes gathered...
In Case You Missed It
What’s New
Among the new products this month are personalized wheel chocks, a new online panel planner from Aircraft Spruce, a flexible TIG welding kit, and Britta Imports RV faring and dimmers.
Designer Spotlight: Lawrence B. Sperry
Amy Laboda takes a look at the life of inventor Lawrence Sperry, whose childhood fascination with a spinning top led to his development of critical flight control systems...and even the aircraft seat belt.