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Waco’s Big Beautiful EGC-8

Story And Photos
By Gilles Auliard
Looking for something to load up with camping gear, the grand kids and your full size friends to go places with a lot of stuff?
Well step right over here, my friend, we have the plane for your, a 1937 Waco EGC-8, a big gentle airplane that's surprisingly light on the controls [...]

Flying The Waco EGC-8

By Jim Clark
Owner/Pilot
If you can fly any taildragger, you can fly this big Waco cabin.
It is just a truck, tremendously stable in flight.
On take off, I accelerate and push hard to lift the tail, put a little bit of back pressure on the control wheel at 62-63 mph, and let the speed build up in [...]

Pacific Flyer Christmas Card Contest

We have a clear winner in our annual Best Christmas Card Contest and once again it came from the artisans at Victory Girl, who specialize in painting leather jackets, among other things.
This one features a fetching lass on a downhill sled with the message, "Relax" on the front and inside, "it's all downhill from here." [...]

Women In Aviation Conference

The 2012 International Women in Aviation Conference is scheduled for March 8-10 in Dallas, Texas at the Hilton Anatole.
Invited speakers in-clude:FAA Acting Administrator Michael Huerta; Z. Nagin Cox, Assistant Flight System Engineering Manager, Mars Science Laboratory, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Sherry Carbary, Vice President of Flight Services, The Boeing Company; Rod Hightower, EAA President; Sandra [...]

HRH Drops By Lyon Museum

The Lyon Air Museum played host on Dec. 1, 2011 to Prince Edward, His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, who was in the country from the American Air Museum in Britain as part of a fund raising trip.
Prince Edward, 76, who carries out royal duties on behalf of his first cousin Queen Elizabeth II, [...]

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