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Rebuilding a Stearman, one piece at a time
Jim Busha
Just as glue, tape, clamps, rivets, and countless other fasteners transform a pile of parts into a flying machine, so do the words
of wisdom handed down from one generation of aircraft restorer to the next.

Reinventing the Ski
EAAer makes skis for multi-surface use
Kent Misegades
The hot, dusty gravel road that led from the Bus Park to the flightline at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2008 seemed an unlikely location to find a company whose products are all about
cold-weather flying. But that is where Rick and Sandy Discher of Weyauwega, Wisconsin-based Trick Air displayed their wares.

To learn more about managing the STC to PMA process, read "From STC to PMA" by this author.

Marvin Polzien’s Airships
Building on the past
David Swindler
For the past eight years, Marvin Polzien, EAA 373784, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, has been designing, building, and flying
blimps. He is among an elite few who have sufficient tenacity to build and fly such machines, and he’s living proof that the sport of building and operating small blimps is a real form of sport aviation.