A Hand for your Volunteers

Pre-race

Like all great EAA events, the AirVenture Cup is brought to you by volunteers. Born of an idea hatched in Camp Sholler during the 1997 convention by lifelong EAA Volunteers, Eric Whyte and Erik Anderson, the first AirVenture Cup was in 1998. Since then more than one hundred volunteers have established a tradition of bringing…

A Whiff of Jet-A

Racer News

Amid the hustle and bustle of the Mount Vernon Airport ramp at the start of the AirVenture Cup last year, one could be forgiven for overlooking an especially nice RV-8 or a particularly tricked out Lancair. There was one plane in the crowd, however, that practically (and literally!) screamed for attention. The first sign for…