Powered by Four Honda Fit Engines With Custom Redrives... And It's Off The Runway In 300 Feet!

OK... not exactly an Affordable Flyer but certainly notable in sport aviation circles... there is a 35% scale homebuilt B-29 plying the skies these days... the extraordinary result of builder Tom Hodgson’s long-running development of the third scale replica, powered by 4 Honda Fit engines with a number of specially designed accessories to deliver enough power to get this 50 foot wingspan monster off in just 300 feet... on grass. 

First Road-Certified Flying Car Achieves New Heights

The PAL-V Liberty, the first true FlyDrive vehicle, recently passed its first Periodic Technical Inspection (PTI/APK). This milestone comes four years after the flying car’s official road certification. PAL-V will now be working to finalize the Liberty’s air certification through a compliance demonstration.

Final Date Confirmed: November 6-7-8, 2025 On SnF Campus

After a number of consults with our friends at Lakeland, a final decision was reached for the debut of the first Affordable Flying Expo. Those disappointed by the loss of both the Sebring and DeLand sport aviation fly-ins can rest easy now that the Affordable Flying Expo is finally and officially on the books for November 6-8 of 2025. The Affordable Flyer Expo will boast plenty of opportunities to inspect some aircraft, getting shoppers up close and intimate with new aircraft as they navigate the lengthy purchase process. It will also offer an exceptionally strong opportunity for MOSAIC issues to be explained, discussed, and utilized (if we actually get the rule by next Oshkos

From 2022 (YouTube Version): Jenny, I’ve Got Your Number...

Among the magnificent antique aircraft on display at EAA’s AirVenture 2022 was a 1918 Curtiss Jenny painstakingly constructed to Curtiss’s original specifications by the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Chapter 1414 in cooperation with the Vintage Wings and Wheels Museum. The two organizations, both of which hail from the village of Poplar Grove in north-central Illinois, set about the project in service of a noble, joint ambition to build a flying aircraft representative of aviation’s iconic early days.