Aviation Events, Great Places to Fly and MORE!
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Nationally, the Young Eagles program has flown nearly 2 million kids with the help of EAA's network of volunteer pilots and ground volunteers, including the members of Chapter 846. Each year we fly young people age 8-17 at Wadsworth Airport. Each child will attend a short ground school, followed by a free airplane ride with a qualified pilot. A parent or guardian must be present. Mark your calendar for Sat., June 8, at the Wadsworth Municipal Airport, and let your child fly like an eagle
Celebrate spring at the airport! Shine up your plane and come show it off at the Wadsworth Municipal Airport, 3G3. Or drive on in, see all the planes and enjoy a fresh, hot pancake breakfast! Rain or shine, come join us from 8 am-1 pm on Sat., May 18th at the Wadsworth Municipal Airport, 840 Airport Rd., in Wadsworth.
Please join us and help support our Young Eagles program. The event starts at 8 AM to 11 AM. We have a wonderful breakfast for only $5 that includes pancakes, eggs, biscuits and gravy, sausage, bacon, orange juice and coffee. We also have a partner Commemorative Air Force hangar with Warbirds and Museum memorabilia right next door. We are located on the far Eastside of the field
On your way to Sun N Fun in Lakeland? Stop by for a day of Young Eagles, Airplanes, Helicopters, Car Show, RC Airplanes, Free Camping, Free Admission, Corn Roast and Bonfire Friday night. Food and Craft Vendors. What else can you ask for.
This video delves into the Lycoming IO-360-L2A as found on the Cessna 172S. You will learn the major components that make up this system, and how each relates to the operation of the airplane.
Flying Doodles met with Kent and his Cessna 177RG Cardinal and go for a flight. He tells us what its like to be a pipeline pilot.
Flying. Friendships. Backcountry. Bushplanes. Desert. Dust. Camaraderie. Camping.
You need some Green Pancakes!! Celebrate with EAA Chapter 1592 at their annual St Patrick's Day Fly in, Saturday, March 16,10 am to 12 pm at Cherokee County Airport KJSO Rain or shine we'll be there!! Come on in and visit for a while!!
Warbird air-rides, ground-tours, live 1940's music, WWII reenactors. Food and ice cream vendors. B-29 FIFI, B-24 Diamond Lil, AC-47 Spooky Gunship, A-1 Skyraider, C-45 Expeditor, P-51 Mustang, T-6 Texan, PT-13 Stearman, and much more! Fly-over from 100 Beechcraft Bonanzas. Bessie's Diner, Famous Dave's BBQ, Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream, and Veebo's Pizza. 2nd Annual 1940's Swing Wings hangar dance Saturday night July 20th. Fly-in aircraft receive free admission to warbird event when purchasing 20 gallons of 100LL or Jet-A at JVL Jet Center.
FlightChops taxi's an airplane right up to a house!
When Sergei Yakovlev, son of legendary Soviet aircraft designer Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, was working on the aerobatic Yak-55 back in 1980, he probably never imagined anything like this. It would have surely been inconceivable to him that, nearly 40 years later, a group of guys, in the decadent West, no less, would take two of his airplanes and stick them together.
The Second Saturday of each month the WAAAM Air and Auto Museum opens the doors to roll out and run some of its antique airplanes and cars. Visitors watch antique airplane operations up close and may get to ride in old cars too. Open 9-5. Activities 10-2. Lunch 11-1. Free parking. WAAAM is located three miles from downtown Hood River at 1600 Air Museum Road and is on the north side of the Hood River-Ken Jernstedt Airport 4S2. Call 541 308-1600 for more information or visit www.waaamuseum.org
Flying Doodles meets Mike and his 1985 Yak (NanChang CJ6) with a great lesson on flying in formation!
Watch as Jessica does a fantastic grass field landing at Washington Island in Wisconsin.
Lately, there seems to have been a rash of airplanes landing on highways. What's going on? In this AVweb video, Paul Bertorelli explains how to land an airplane on a highway in an emergency. Just try not to do it after running out of gas.
Food, fun and flying to help support youth aviation in the valley. Fly in customers receive Fifty cents off a gallon and landing fees waived with fuel purchase.
FlyWithMeFriday with Cory Robin is an aviation introductory flight experience designed to introduce, welcome, and encourage people to discover flying. Cory and his crew select people from diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, and from any age. The common theme is they have no prior flight experience.
"Current picture of WhiteplainsPlantation looking from the west to runway 27. VASI for runway 27, 3 clicks to turn on it and the runway lights." - Submitted by Don Cook.
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AOPA checks in on a Lockheed Constellation that flew as Air Force One, now being restored with an eye on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of World War II.
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