Air show at Blackwell Field today to honor aerobatics design pioneer (From Dothan Eagle (Alabama), 11/04/ 2003, Page 1B) By Faith Ford Photography by Mike Lewis Curtis Pitts, designer of the Pitts Special and other aircraft, will be honored with an air show at Ozark's Blackwell Field today. OZARK - In 1943, Curtis Pitts [...]

New millennium technology meets the biplane (From Sport Aviation, 08/2002, Page 56) By Budd Davisson Photography by Phil High and Jim Koepnick Hale Wallace's 325-hp Super Skybolt. The new Steen Aero Lab has automated the various processes involved in turning out Skybolt parts, like using a CNC machine to carve out perfect [...]

EAA and NAFI Halls of Fame induct new members (From Sport Aviation, 12/1998, Page 26) The 1998 EAA Hall of Fame ceremonies took place in the Eagle Hangar of the EAA Air Adventure Museum. EAA President Tom Poberezny was master of ceremonies for the 1998 Hall of Fame inductions and an inductee, [...]

Perspectives On The Homebuilt Movement (From Sport Aviation, 03/1988, Page 43) By David A. Gustafson Photography by David A. Gustafson Homebuilts are still the centerpiece at Oshkosh and other EAA fly-ins around the country. They share the stage with a lot of different types of aircraft, but they are, nevertheless, a focal point for the [...]

(From Private Pilot, 08/1973, Page 20) By Byron G. Wels FLYING HAS changed. Frankly, it's improved quite a bit, with nicely enclosed cockpits, cabin air heaters, instrumentation that reduces the risk, and airplanes that are so forgiving in nature that anybody almost can be taught to fly one. The tricycle gear, with its drive it [...]

(From Private Pilot, 08/1973, Page 12) By Dennis Shattuck Photography by Paul A. Wilkinson (Cover photo) WHEN YOU'RE USED to looking at Waco UPF-7s and Stearmans and Travelairs as two-place biplanes for fun and games, the current crop of diminutive two-seaters look like mosquitos along side eagles. Once you get inside, however, your view will [...]