Pruitt Brothers

Over its first eighteen years of running, the AirVenture Cup Cross-Country Air Race has seen many rare and interesting aircraft, many family racing teams, many successful rookie campaigns, and many breathtakingly close “photo finishes.” It’s hard to say, however, if the AVC has ever seen all these elements combined in quite the way we saw…

Carri Hoagland Rises Above With “Elso.”

  Among the dozens of unique homebuilt aircraft that showed up in Mitchell this year, there was one airplane that really stuck out from the crowd: a green-on-cream Piel CP-328 Super Emeraude inscribed with the cursive name “Elso.” Though Emeraudes are common in Europe, they are fairly rare on this side of the Atlantic, particularly…

Taking Wing: The World’s Fastest Cub

For those of you who don’t know him, AirVenture Cup rookie, Sam Weigel wears many hats. While he was known as, “The Guy Racing the Cub,” during the race, he is also joined our volunteer ranks. He flies the Cub for fun and the equally tecnologically advanced MD-80 for a major air carrier for work.…

Paul & Pamela Tackabury

Screaming Yellow Zonker Speeds to 346 MPH Finish

Paul is no stranger to speed, being a retired USAF fighter and test pilot whose career spanned from the F-100 Super Sabre to the F-117 development program. It was while stationed at Edwards AFB that he first became interested in homebuilding through knowing Dick and Burt Rutan when they were developing the original Vari-EZ at…