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Join the EAA on January 23-27, 2023, during the third-annual EAA Homebuilders Week online event. Experts from every corner of the homebuilt aircraft community will bring their knowledge and information to builders everywhere through free and interactive webinars. Topics covered include workshops on sheet metal, welding, and wood; aircraft designs from a variety of industry leaders; part selection when building; buying secondhand; and more.

This five-day event coincides with the 70th anniversary of the first Experimental Aircraft Association meeting on January 26, 1953. Homebuilders…

The 2022 winner of the L. Paul Soucy Trophy is Phillip Gragg, IAC 431292, of Ramona, California.

The purpose of the L. Paul Soucy Trophy is to recognize the pilot who achieves the highest scoring percentage at three or more contests during a contest season (best scores averaged together). To qualify, one of those contests must be the U.S. National Aerobatic Championships.

Phillip has been an IAC member since the mid-1990’s.  He flew his first contest in a rented Super Decathlon at the 2008 Cajun Contest in Le…

The official contest video for every flight of every competitor in the 2022 U.S. National Aerobatic Championships has been posted. 

https://www.iac.org/nationals-videos

Figure 1 Foundation is dedicated to aviation scholarships in order to educate, enable and inspire the general aviation community, at the grassroots level, with a mission to promote change in safety and growth in the aviation industry as a whole.  The foundation offers a variety of scholarships including an Aerobatic Judge Certification Scholarship. 

The certification program covers the cost of a weekend judges school and travel expenses to and from an aerobatic contest to earn the required judges assisting experience, as well as the regional judge's…

Sean D. Tucker: A Passion for Aviation

Annually you will see a familiar call for IAC member participation on foundational programs that govern all IAC sanctioned contests. This year, Sequence Committee Chair Michael Ciliberti and Rules Committee Chair Barrett Hines sent out the same appeal to IAC members in the July/August time frame for rule change proposals and known sequences.

Once sequences were received, they were sent out to the membership for a 30-day comment period. The submissions were reviewed by the sequence committee, Mike prepared a report with recommendations to the IAC board of directors at the IAC fall…