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AVweb After a pandemic-induced hiatus last year, the Experimental Aircraft Association’s International Young Eagles Day will pick up again on Saturday, June 12. At local airports throughout North America, EAA chapters and member volunteers will provide youngsters from ages 8-17 the chance to experience a flight in light aircraft at no charge. Since the Young Eagles program launched in 1992, more than 2.2 million young people have taken to the skies, many for the first time in ...

Kids discover inspiration of flight during EAAs International Young Eagles Day on June 12 Share Article Thousands of young people ages 8-17 will experience free introductory flights on June 12 during EAAs International Young Eagles Day. Since 1992, more than 2.2 million young people have flown as Young Eagles, thanks to the efforts of licensed pilots who are members of the Experimental Aircraft Association. Image of news release: EAA International Young Eagles Day 2021 We are in many ways makin...

Bill Scott, Brooksville, 1946 Cessna 120 Bill Scott, of Pilots Country in Brooksville, has been attending the expo for 48 years — Thats right, longer than the event has been named.  Scott said he remembers the first Sun n Fun, where a substantially smaller crowd gathered around hangars on the north side of the airport to look at planes. "You start off coming to look at airplanes some," he said. "Then you see people, get to know people and keep coming back to see how everyone is doing." Sc...

Brrmmmm... the sound of the engine roars to life as the small plane rumbles down the runway and ascends quickly into the sky. On board the 1971 Grumman Yankee AA-1A is longtime veteran pilot Kim Muinch and his fearless passenger, 16-year-old Lucas Tracy, a junior at Ridgeview High School in Redmond. Just a few miles away, 17-year-old Sisters High School senior Mary Root is completing her preflight checklist before taking the helm of a single-engine Cessna 120 tailwheel light aircraft. Lucas...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Trooping during Ex Ukuthula last year. Force preparation for South Africa’s airmen, military medics, sailors and soldiers this year will be confined to unit and base level. This inference is drawn from the response to a defenceWeb enquiry to the corporate communications directorate of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) on hosting and staging joint, inter-departmental, inter-agency and multi-national (JIIM) exercises in the 2021 calendar year. Brigadier G...

Yeager Supported EAA In A Variety Of Ways Over A 30-Year Period EAA is mourning the death of Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, one of Americas preeminent aviators who also supported EAA in a variety of ways over a 30-year period. Yeager died Monday evening in California at age 97. Gen. Yeager, EAA Lifetime 258188, was best known as the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound when he flew the Bell X-1 at Mach 1 in October 1947. He also had a decorated military career as an Army Air Forces ace in ...