Sun ‘N Fun

March teases us nearly every year here where I live in Kansas, tempting us with a sampling of spring weather, then pulling us back in to winter once or twice as surely as sunrise and sunset. But March’s teasing seldom frustrates me as much as my non-aviating friends and neighbors. What these folks don’t know […]

Gallery 1 | Gallery2 | Gallery 3 Special Report: Sun ‘n Fun 2000 This isn’t Alice’s Restaurant, but you can still get anything you want… Stinson Gullwing Lockheed starting up. Rise and shine! Night taxiing… …and night camping Super Chipmunk. Hey! Who snuck a single in here? Powered parachutes swarming over Paradise City Thursday evening. […]

Gallery 1 | Gallery2 | Gallery 3 Special Report: Sun ‘n Fun 2000 No, it’s not a Staggerwing, it’s a Lionheart, an all-new composite design mounting a 450-h.p. Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr. radial engine and capable of 200-knot speeds. Ultralights stacked up at Paradise City. Some aerobatic birds take a break from the action. […]

Gallery 1 | Gallery2 | Gallery 3 Special Report: Sun ‘n Fun 2000 This Fokker Triplane is one of three WWI-era aircraft from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flown daily at SnF 2000 in mock dogfights. Another of the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome aircraft, this one a Spad. Aviat’s Monocoupe 110 Special made daily passes down the […]

Special Report: Sun ‘n Fun 2000 SnF 2000: From Dry To Soggy Two Accidents, Poor Weather… Ever hear the one about the week-long aviation celebration that enjoyedperfect weather and safety from the first early-bird arrival to the finalflyer’s flight home? Probably not, because they just don’t happen – or, at theleast, don’t happen often. And […]

Special Report: Sun ‘n Fun 2000 By Any Other Name: Sun ‘n Fun 2000 Living Up To Its Name Comfy Days, Cool Nights, Dry Camps And Few Bugs… When the faithful gathered for the first EAA Sun ‘n Fun some 26 years ago, conditions that matched the title were hit and miss. January in Florida […]

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Theannual trek to Sun ‘n Fun was, as usual, a great deal of fun. Flying myPiper Arrow down and back is always the best part of the entire week, andthis year was no exception. The weather cooperated for the most part, andthe bird ran flawlessly. When my wife and I departed Howell, Michigan, there was […]