Air Shows & Events

With three days to spend for Labor Day, The Weekender scouted out some first-time fly-ins on SocialFlight, plus some big airshows. FlightLevel of Cape May County Airport in New Jersey will hold its first fly-in, which includes AIRFest at the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum featuring WWII re-enactors and live music. Grab a free […]

The Weekender will have a hard time choosing what state to fly to, with SocialFlight offering some unique outings. On Saturday, experience the fun of landing on a well-maintained 2,600-foot turf runway that runs along an island on the Mississippi. This Iowa gem will be open to pilots and their guests for the 15th Annual […]

Kitplanes magazine editor Paul Dye is a former NASA flight director, but he’s also a passionate homebuilder, currently working on a Dream Tundra. At AirVenture 2015, he gave us his six top reasons for joining the homebuilt community. view on YouTube

Whether it’s a day out with the kids or a four-day mini-vacation, The Weekender’s SocialFlight calendar has plenty to choose from. EAA Chapter 242 celebrates its 50th anniversary Saturday in Columbia, South Carolina. Enjoy a free lunch of hot dogs, baked beans, slaw, lemonade and ice cream. A great variety of homebuilt and vintage aircraft […]

Seafood’s on the menu for The Weekender’s SocialFlight events, with something for everyone – adventurous and otherwise.Pilots from throughout the northwest are invited to flock to the Willapa Harbor Airport Saturday in Washington for the sixth annual Oyster Feed Fly-In, sponsored by the EAA Chapter of the Willapa Harbor Pilots Association. A $20 ticket ($10 […]

NASA – which always has a cool setup at Oshkosh, space suits and all – quietly conducted research last month under the radar of the world’s biggest airshow. In the basement of EAA’s Air Academy Lodge, a team of NASA staffers had pilots fly an X-Plane sim to test a cellphone app designed to avoid […]

Family-friendly fun and Midwestern hospitality are on The Weekender’s SocialFlight calendar. Scenic Frankenmuth Airport in Michigan invites all to its seventh annual Grassroots Fly-In/Camp-In starting Saturday. Relax under the shade of the Preferred Pavilion and join in on the flying, food and contests. Stay for the evening bonfire and camping under your airplane. Also Saturday, […]

Letter of the Week:ALPA’s Medical Bombshell I’m a retired Northwest Airlines (now Delta) 747-400 captain. I was a member of ALPA for 38 years. The letter ALPA put out against medical is baseless. Due to the fact many ALPA pilots and those representing pilots at other carriers, retired and active, own GA aircraft, I think […]

Pleasant weather and some aircraft firsts helped last week’s EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh attract about 550,000 visitors, an attendance increase of about 2 percent, EAA said. “AirVenture 2015 exceeded our expectations on many levels,” Chairman Jack Pelton said in a statement Wednesday. “With near-perfect weather for the entire event, we filled Wittman Regional Airport […]

The Weekender hopes you’ve recovered from Oshkosh, because there’s no rest for the weary on the SocialFlightcalendar. For starters, the July’s Skys airshow invites all to come early and stay late Saturday in Preston, Idaho. Watch aerobatic performers do their stuff and enjoy a glimpse of history as four World War II aircraft take part […]