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  Aerial Advertising

  Published April 4, 2012 - No Comments

  By Britni Williams | ELYRIA, Ohio —   “Have a seat in my office,” Konrad Balunek said as he slid aside the door.  He wasn’t dressed in what one would consider business attire. He wore faded blue jeans with a white T-shirt and worn, brown work boots. His office didn’t have ...

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  Diving into Marriage

  Published April 4, 2012 - No Comments

  By Rachel Hagenbaugh  | ALLIANCE, Ohio. – At first, Warren Swegal is just a dot 10,000 feet in the air.  Gradually, the shape of the parachute starts to take form.  Sometimes he spins around in a circle, but only for a few seconds.  To those on a ground, it seems like a long tim ...

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  Site Maintenance

  Published February 4, 2012 - No Comments

  We are doing a little spring maintenance on Stories That Fly.  Stay tuned for an overhauled site soon!

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  Fun Places to Fly

  Published February 3, 2012 - No Comments

  Check out some great places to fly. A list of upcoming events is provided for the pilots and aviation enthusiasts in our own backyard (Ohio and Pennsylvania) and also a link to view all of the events in your geographic area. Get off the fence and come on out to your local airport to see ...

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  Hubble Repairman’s Daughter

  Published February 2, 2012 - One Comment

  WADSWORTH, Oh. - She can’t drive a car, but this 15-year old girl traveled from Holland to a small country airfield in Ohio to learn how to fly an airplane. The proud father snapping photos of her from the taxiway is one of our nation’s leading space-based telescope repairman.

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  Sailcats

  Published January 21, 2012 - No Comments

  It’s a sunny early October day with temperatures in the high 70s. Pilot Bruce Grider preflights the Piper Pawnee towplane and several members of the Fun Country Soaring club at Reader-Botsford Airport in Wellington, Ohio, are preparing sailplanes for flight.

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  Home Field Advantage

  Published January 7, 2012 - No Comments

  WOOSTER -- Mark Scheibe grew up at an airfield. On a clear day from 2,500 feet above, you can still see his childhood home and the heated hangar on the airport that bears his family’s name, Scheibe Field Airport (OI55).

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  Stories That Fly Launches!

  Published January 4, 2012 - 3 Comments

  Stories That Fly launched May 2 at a celebration in Franklin Hall, home of the site, as well as the Kent State University journalism program. A crowd of approximately 70 people attended. Co-hosted by the Kent State University Flight Program.

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  An Unusual Gift

  Published September 10, 2011 - No Comments

  MADISON, OH--Forty-six years ago, Gretchen Reed was picking someone up from a small airport in Painesville when she first saw Charles Reed, a diehard pilot she knew through family friends. She was 21 and “he was just the ultimate cool,” she says.

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  The Old and the Bold

  Published March 23, 2011 - 18 Comments

  KENT — Some time after the first solo and before becoming licensed, every pilot who has learned how to fly since the 1920s has been warned, "There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots—but there are no old bold pilots." How then, does one explain Richard Schwabe?

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