by Vintage Aircraft Association | Apr 3, 2017 | Magazine Extras, Outstanding Flights
Two Piper PA-12 Super Cruisers made super around-the-world OUTSTANDING FLIGHTS in 1947. It all started in 1946 when two flight instructors at an airport near Washington, D. C. observed a newly certificated PA-12 taxi by and a comment made that with enough gas these...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | Jul 13, 2016 | Magazine Extras
by Randy Phillips, VAA 722809 For some reason, my wife doesn’t like me going out to seedy bars anymore and talking to strange women. Imagine that! Marcy(my wife) and I have been together(off and on) for 29 years. Some really good times and some pretty rough. The...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | Jan 25, 2016 | Magazine Extras, News, Related Aviation News, Youth in Action
by Ron Alexander, VAA 27150 For the past couple of years I have been writing an article in AirMail about “Airport’s in Action.” In each issue we have presented several EAA and VAA Chapters around the country whose membership places a priority on developing young...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | Mar 23, 2015 | Magazine Extras
by Tom Bartenstein, EAA 225662 This story is over forty years in the making. I’m not a pilot, mechanic, or plane builder. I am, however, a lifelong aviation enthusiast. I enjoy being around all things aviation…people, places, and things. It all started in 1970, when...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | Mar 23, 2015 | Home Page, Magazine Extras
From the September, 1976 issue of Vintage Airplane (All back issues are archived in the Members Only section). By Merill Stickler Curator of Curtiss Museum Hammondsport, NY 14840 All Photos by Mike Mandiak. June 23, 1976, the long awaited day of the bicentennial...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | Feb 24, 2015 | Magazine Extras
From then president Butch Joyce’s Straight and Level column in the October, 1989 Vintage Airplane: “Those of us who had the privilege of attending EAA Oshkosh ’89 will have the memory of seeing no fewer than six Jennies. A number of people expressed...