EAA News

A Resurrection for the "Wright brother" of South Korea

He’s the Wright brother of South Korea some might say; or you could say he’s the Paul P. of the Korean peninsula.

MiG men join the fray over AirVenture

Visitors to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2010 saw two Soviet-bloc MiG-21 jet fighters in the skies over Wisconsin this week. The supersonic jets, once the pride of the Soviet air force, became symbols of changing times as the Cold War sighed to a halt.

Seventy-five years of Flying Fortresses

It’s been 75 years, that’s three quarters of a century, since the prototype of the Flying Fortress series took to the skies for the first time over Seattle, Washington. For so many reasons, the B-17 Flying Fortress became an American icon.

Scratchin’ out a new design

In today’s world of kit build-this and quick build-that, it is ever rarer to see an all-original, scratchbuilt airplane, once a common site at Oshkosh and other fly-ins around the country. One of those rare one of a kind scratchbuilt creations is here at EAA AirVenture 2010, parked by the Brown Arch, Chris Christiansen’s one of a kind Savor.

Olds school: Robin Olds was passionate patriot

Patriot with a passion, respectfully rebellious. Definitions that might begin to frame Brig. Gen. Robin Olds, but would still fall short of the man. Robin Olds’ daughter Christina shared vignettes of her famous fighter-pilot father in a Forum session at AirVenture 2010 on Monday.

Amateur-built aircraft safety: EAA, FAA collaborate on improvements

Are amateur-built aircraft operations getting safer? Can industry identify any trends involving them and take steps to improve their safety even further? Those are the two main questions members of the Amateur-Built Joint Safety Committee (AB-JSC) wrestled with Tuesday on the grounds of EAA AirVenture 2010.

Klapmeier back in the airplane business

Alan Klapmeier and I have been discussing, some would say arguing, about what’s wrong and right about general aviation, and more importantly, about what’s possible to change and what is not, for well north of 20 years. We’re both older, more experienced, and somewhat wiser now and I like what I hear from Alan about the single-engine turboprop Kestrel project.

We have a new leader!

Rod Hightower, a longtime EAA member, pilot, aviation enthusiast, and businessman, will become EAA’s new president on September 7. Tom Poberezny, chairman and current president, made the announcement on Monday at an opening day press conference. Hightower is only the third president in EAA history and the first outside the Poberezny family.

Big RVs move to city parking lots

More than weeds are sprouting in Oshkosh after the city received about 12 inches of rain so far in July.

Improvised campgrounds for the largest of the campers, the fifth-wheelers and mobile homes, are sprouting up around paved

parking lots in Oshkosh, since the ground at EAA’s Camp Scholler is still too wet to accommodate those heavy vehicles.

Rod Hightower named EAA President

EAA today named longtime pilot and EAA member Rod Hightower, EAA 357443, as the incoming president of the

association. Hightower was introduced by current chairman and president, Tom Poberezny, during his opening day remarks. A

press conference will be held at 3 p.m. today at Press Headquarters on the AirVenture grounds.