SWPC Member, Bryan Hunt, recently posted a flying video to the Club’s Facebook page along with the note, “First attempt at creating, uploading and posting a GoPro video… Hope it works” The video not only works, it’s absolutely awesome and serves as a great inspiration to get out and fly! The video depicts a flight…
While looking around the internet in search of a particular book that mentions the wonderful PA-22 TriPacer, I found another book, Flying High that features the PA-22 as well. Flying High was published in 2003 and was written by pilot Oscar Williams. Here’s a synopsis of the book taken from its Amazon page: “Flying High…
There are a lot of book about flying out there and from time to time Short Wing Pipers are “characters” in these stories. One example of this is 14 Days to Alaska, a book written by Troy Hamon, our guest speaker at our 2013 SWPC Convention. Hamon’s book features his TriPacer, N624A, and tells the…
There’s a bunch of information about Short Wing Pipers and the Short Wing Piper Club out on the internet and in print. We’re gathering a collection of articles about Short Wing Pipers and the SWPC and will post a list of them on our website at our Short Wings in the Media page. Here’s an…
I was searching through our SWPC Forums yesterday and noticed a post titled History Book and written by SWPC member, Daniel Miller. In case you aren’t aware, the SWPC complied a history of the Club and published a book, Short Wing Piper Club Commemorative History. The book was published by Turner Publishing Company in 2006…
SWPC at AirVenture A member of our Short Wing Family, Bob Christensen of Ashton, Idaho, was featured in an article on AirVenture’s website on Tuesday, July 30th. Thanks to member Zac Weidner who posted a link to the article on our Club’s Facebook page. The article, written by Jack Hodgson is titled Around the Field: An EAA…
It’s always fun to see Short Wing Pipers and members of our Short Wing Family in the news. Here’s a story about SWPC Member, Jim Younggren, of Hallock, Minnesota. Jim was featured in his local newspaper, The Kittson County Enterprise, for his love of flying vintage airplanes. The article focuses on Jim’s 1951 PA-18 Super…
Short Wings Over Saratoga – SWPC Convention 2013 July 1st through 4th Late word received from club president Peter Lubig and 2013 convention director Andy Seligson is that Troy Hamon, author of the book 14 Days to Alaska, will be our convention keynote speaker. Troy spent years working as a field scientist in Southwest…
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