STOL Drag

Slated for September 14-18 at Stead Airport (KRTS), the event will also feature the National Aviation Heritage Invitational, as well as children’s activities.

The event matched competitors in a new bracketing system designed to facilitate movement between the previous classes.

This fireside chat recap is from FLYING’s “What’s Next in General Aviation” Virtual Event on Wednesday. FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: How one creative STOL pilot invented an entire sport and founded a wild backcountry fly-in described as the “Burning Man” of aviation. DETAILS: FLYING’s Lisa DeFrees talks with STOL pilot Kevin Quinn about how he founded […]

This fireside chat recap is from FLYING’s “What’s Next in General Aviation” Virtual Event on Wednesday. FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: How Just Aircraft built its business as the popularity of STOL continues to grow. DETAILS: FLYING’s Thom Patterson talks with Gary Schmitt about how Just Aircraft grew from an idea to one of the most popular […]

With beautiful weather, the world’s largest backcountry event, the High Sierra Fly-In was back in the swing of things last week, appearing as though nothing ever happened after taking 2020 off because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The airplanes returned from all over the world to join in and celebrate this amazing event: Landing on surrounding […]

The High Sierra Fly-In 2021 kicked off early last week on the Dead Cow Airstrip and surrounding dry lake bed in northern Nevada, with a collective community event that brought in nearly 1,000 vehicles (aircraft and campers and more…) and roughly 2,000 spectators and participants. The STOL Drag competition pitted long-time backcountry pilots and newcomers […]

FLYING contributor Sam Weigel has been an avid fan of the Reno Air Races for a long time—and he takes us behind the scenes from the 2021 races into the cockpit of Sport Class pilot Joe Coraggio and gives us a view from the grandstands of all of the Unlimited, Jet, T-6, F-1, Biplane, and […]

“This is absolutely exciting!” “This is what Reno needed!” “I love how they are so close to us!” “I love it! I don’t completely understand it yet, but I love it!” Those are just some of the comments I heard from race fans at the first official STOL Drag race event to be held at […]

The 2020 STIHL National Championship Air Races near Reno, Nevada, was set to officially open its doors to spectators on September 16. However, as with all major air-show events planned after March of this year, the coronavirus pandemic put a lid on the excitement for this week. The annual event, in which racers of various […]

If you’ve ever attended the Stihl National Championship Air Races at the Reno-Stead Airport west of Reno, Nevada, you know the event brands itself as “the fastest motorsport on earth,” with the slogan “fly low, fly fast, turn left.” Low and slow has never factored into the equation since the races began decades ago. But […]