Stories

Stories from the logbook

Real flights, RC builds and the adventures in between. New stories added as we fly.

Coming soon
Real planes

From first lesson to checkride: how I earned my private pilot's license

Why I started, the hardest parts of training, first solo and checkride day.

Case grinning at the flying field right after the Smart Trainer's maiden flight
RC planes

Case's Smart Trainer: from hand-me-down to maiden flight

Someone gave Case a broken Dynam Smart Trainer. He rebuilt it himself and flew it for the first time.
Coming soon
Family flights

Flying with the kids

Taking the kids up in a real airplane, and what they had to say about it.

Coming soon
RC planes

Case at the controls

How Case got into RC planes, his first plane, his first crash and what he flies now.

Coming soon
Real planes

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2016

A week at the biggest airshow in the world: warbirds, homebuilts and everything that flies.

Coming soon
RC planes

Printing planes at home

What it takes to 3D print a flying RC plane, from the printer settings to the first flight.