Month: August 2023

When you come to Oshkosh early, well ahead of the usual crowds for the AirVenture 2023 event, like I did this year, some special things are liable to happen all rather spontaneously. This is what happened to me this year. I got a last-minute invitation to a very special event. […]

EAA member Art Brown shares his bike trip to AirVenture from Manitoba. […]

At 3 p.m., the horses at the Epsom Derby galloped out of the start gates. Alan Cobham stood by his airplane. He heard the starting gun and glanced at his watch. […]

C-GSYV is a Murphy Rebel that took eight years and close to 3,000 hours to build. It first flew on August 2, 2021, and currently has more than 100 hours in the air. […]

Camping at AirVenture 2023 was different this year in that EAA granted the Canadian Council a consolidated location for up to 50 campsites in my usual camping location just North of the Fly-In Theatre. […]

Bits and Pieces contributor John Wyman reminisces about some of the more significant first solo flights in his life. […]

Lt. Retzlaff joined the Army Air Forces, as many young men did at the time, to fight against a grave wrong and injustice that was happening in Europe. He had always dreamed of being a pilot, and this was the perfect way for him to contribute to the war effort. […]

Pliers are levers, so when I started to design these, I wanted the latch located at the furthest point from the pivot. This would allow for the least amount of force required for the latch to hold. […]