EAA Sport Aviation on CD

Goldmine: The Ultimate Aviation Reference Library

EAA proudly presents to members The Complete Collection of EAA Sport Aviation Magazine on CD. That’s roughly 600 issues, or 50,000 pages of every article, photograph, drawing, letter, and advertisement ever placed in EAA’s flagship publication.

For homebuilders and restorers, this is an indispensable resource filled with almost five decades of advice - literally thousands of in-depth technical and how-to articles from a variety of contributors, including notable homebuilder Tony Bingelis and airfoil designer John Roncz. Plus there are numerous aircraft plans, designs, helpful homebuilder and restoration tips, demonstrations, product information, tools, services, and oh, so many historic and stunning photos, including photos by EAA’s award-winning Jim Koepnick. Some restorers will chuckle when they find their aircraft featured as the “latest” in design and technology. Solving homebuilding challenges and restoration mysteries just doesn’t get any easier.

This chronological electronic reference library is completely searchable - simply and quickly find a staggering range of historical information by article title, author, date, or full text. From a historical aspect, this product offers loads of primary source material. Read (or for many, reread) nearly 3,000 letters to the editor in which members passionately voice their monthly suggestions, concerns, compliments, and complaints. Don’t forget about almost a half-century’s worth of photographs and first-hand accounts of EAA activities by members about members, families, travel, homebuilding and restoration, local events, and volunteer efforts.

For example, check out what Chapters were doing 10, 25, or even 45 years ago; it may spark event or program ideas for your own Chapter. Or experience EAA’s member-driven grass-roots story through Paul’s, and later Tom’s, Homebuilder’s Corner column. There, you’ll find month-by-month accounts of EAA history from its modest beginnings in the Poberezny home to its growth as the leader in recreational aviation.

Missed a few EAA Fly-ins in the last few years? Perhaps you caught some of the regional or Chapter fly-ins in between. No? Well, you'll spend hours reading about all of them in this EAA Sport Aviation CD collection. Information and statistics, such as awards, events, attendees, products, record attempts, breakthroughs, and even the weather, are in there. Every photograph that documented each event is there, too. So the next time you get into an argument about who placed first in the primary competition of the 1968 EAA Aerobatics Contest, simply check The Complete Collection of EAA Sport Aviation Magazine on CD, and prove you were right...or bow out gracefully.

The Ultimate Aviation Reference Library

• Find every article, advertisement, photograph, drawing, and letter, from nearly a half-century.
• Search by title, author, date, or full text search. For example, access every article ever written by homebuilder Tony Bingelis and airfoil designer John Roncz.
• You'll be amazed with historic photos, statistics from past fly-ins, and five decades of EAA chapter information. Includes restoration tips and the latest in design and technology.
• Easy to use and care for. The faux leather storage case will keep your CDs organized and safe, with extra pages for future additions. 

The library contains:

• Installation CD
• CD 1: February 1953 - December 1958
• CD 2: January 1959 - June 1962
• CD 3: July 1962 - April 1965
• CD 4: May 1965 - January 1968
• CD 5: February 1968 - May 1970
• CD 6: June 1970 - June 1972
• CD 7: July 1972 - April 1974
• CD 8: May 1974 - December 1975
• CD 9: January 1976 - July 1977
• CD 10: August 1977 - February 1979
• CD 11: March 1979 - September 1980
• CD 12: October 1980 - May 1982
• CD 13: June 1982 - January 1984
• CD 14: February 1984 - August 1985
• CD 15: September 1985 - March 1987
• CD 16: April 1987 - October 1988
• CD 17: November 1988 - April 1990
• CD 18: May 1990 - October 1991
• CD 19: November 1991 - December 1992
• CD 20: January 1993 - January 1994
• CD 21: February 1994 - January 1995
• CD 22: February 1995 - January 1996
• CD 23: February 1996 - January 1997
• CD 24: February 1997 - January 1998
• CD 25: February 1998 - December 1998
• CD 26: January 1999 - November 1999
• CD 27: December 1999 - November 2000
• CD 28: December 2000 - December 2001
• CD 29: January 2002 - December 2002
• CD 30: January 2003 - December 2003