Sport Aviation article

[Sonex1517]

Be sure to check page 68 of the October 2024 Sport Aviation for a really cool article about our own Bryan Cotton!

Very cool Bryan!

[Bryan Cotton]

Thanks Robbie! Definitely cool to be featured. There is an EAA video that goes along with the story as well.

This is some good press for Sonex. We are living the Sport Aircraft Reality Check dream.

[MichaelFarley56]

Congratulations Bryan for an excellent article! I really enjoyed reading it and appreciate you taking the time to edit your videos for all of us to enjoy!

You've made your fellow Waiex and Sonex family proud! Well done!

[Sonerai13]

Congrats Bryan! Great article. Good deal!!

[WaiexB22]

Congrats Bryan! I am double excited for my issue to arrive.

[WaiexN143NM]

Hi all,
bryan, adam,the cotton family , EAA, holly chilsen,

What a great article! True roots of EAA . Homebuilding, families, eaa chapters, and building and finishing
a plane. And adam gets his PPL. And great life skills and knowledge.

Kudos to Sonex for making a kit and support. ( thanks as always kerry) . Are u back part time?
everyone has missed you.

Thanks Bryan for taking us on your journey. You have helped lots of builders with advice and pictures.

Whats next for airplane building?

Congrats, hope you can make the SBPF sonex bbq 2025.


best to all,

WaiexN143NM
Michael

[Bryan Cotton]

Thanks all for the kind words!

Whats next for airplane building?
Michael

Michael,
We plan to finish that hummelbird mentioned in the story & video. Will probably get to it this winter. For now we are flying and also have a major car project to knock out.

I bought a set of Super Cub drawings and we are considering a scratch-built project. I have held a set of Skybolt plans for a long time, but so far Adam does not have the aerobatic interest and a PA18 would probably be the sensible choice. It fills in one of the gaps the Waiex has - short and rough field performance. I have a fair amount of Super Cub time, as well as other cub family aircraft (PA12 & J3). They are great airplanes.

I also agree with what you say about the true roots of EAA. Nice for them to run a story like this, and not all warbirds, gold lindys built to absolute perfection, and airplanes that most of the readership could never afford or own.

[WaiexN143NM]

Hi bryan,

Sounds fun, i see the hummel has a a great website , build videos, parts, subkits, or complete kits.
What model hummel?

The supercub PA-18. Every year see tons of parts PA-18 in the fly market. My father and i spent many hours
everyday scrounging , our favorite place at airventure.

Again , a great article, reminds us all of how the eaa started and spread its mission.
I can see President Paul smiling from above.

Bravo!


Michael.

[Bryan Cotton]

Hi bryan,
What model hummel?
Michael.

Michael,
It's an original Morry Hummel design hummelbird with the 1/2 VW engine, scratch built from Bill Spring's plans. It's actually quite far along.

[Bryan Cotton]

So on the last page, page 78, there is an in-flight picture. I thought I'd share some background info on the picture. Adam flew a couple of the passes, including the one they showed in the EAA video on youtube. The middle pass I flew, and decided to beat up the pattern for some cool video. That was a smoking (for us) 130 kt pass, and I topped 3700 RPM when I went wide open. Sounded glorious. You can see Adam is holding his phone and taking video from inside the cockpit. Pretty impressive to get a still of that quality at 130 kts!