Hangar Flying

By Bernard Wunder, EAA 128167, EAA Chapter 478 Youth Coordinator The Southern Maryland area has several organizations working to introduce kids to aviation. EAA Chapter 478 is coordinating its efforts to complement these other groups to ensure a wide age and demographic spread of the kids in Southern Maryland have the opportunity to be welcomed […]

By Barry Broughton, EAA 1513703 This piece originally ran in the March 2026 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. You’ve probably heard the adage, “Any landing you can walk away from is a good one,” and, “There are no bad landings, just happy little impacts,” but those are only partially true. Besides the sting to […]

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Tom and Chris are joined by Tom Carr, who was a Beechcraft Starship test pilot in the 1980s and is now the chief test pilot at Garmin. The Green Dot, sponsored by Crewchief Systems, is a podcast created by aviation enthusiasts for their fellow aviation enthusiasts. The podcast […]

By David L. Jones, EAA Chapter 501 Flight Training Scholarship Coordinator On Thursday, April 23, New Jersey EAA Chapter 501 was well represented at the Roxbury High School Aviation Career Day. The event was attended by about 200 students from 10 different high schools in the area. There were about 12 different exhibitors including flight […]

By Ryan Newman, EAA 1384304, FAASTeam Program Manager, San Antonio On March 14, 2026, in San Antonio, Texas, the 10,000th Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award was presented to Mark R. Julicher, EAA 605278, in recognition of his 50-plus years of “exemplary aviation flight experience, distinguished professionalism, and steadfast commitment to aviation safety.” This 10,000th award [&...