EvanFlys.com continues to soar

September 8, 2009 — When Evan Isenstein-Brand gets interested in something, he really gets interested. The 11-year old from Pacifica, California took his first Young Eagles flight at 8 and has spent the years since interviewing pilots and putting their stories and photos online. His website, http://www.evanflys.com, has taken off — pun intended — since he did his first interview at age 9 with Eddie Andreini, an aerobatic pilot from Half Moon Bay, California who flies a Super Stearman. “Eddie knows everyone, and he hooked me up with some other guys, and they hooked me up to even more,” Evan says. “It was more of a chain reaction.” But Evan often pursues pilots, too, calling and asking for an interview after seeing them perform at an air show. Evan isn’t sure how many people he’s interviewed, but he knows the list keeps growing. The two latest he added to his site are Jon "Huggy" Huggins, who flies T-38s and U-2s for the U.S. Air Force, and Dean "Wilbur" Wright, the lead pilot for the Patriots Jet Team, a civilian-owned jet aerobatic team. “I really love what I'm doing because I get to meet and make friends with such awesome people,” Evan says. He says he has no favorite interview. “I think they’re all really great; everyone is very nice.” So nice, in fact, that he often gets offers to go up for a flight. “I don’t want to be greedy or rude, but if they’re offering it, I go,” Evan says. Besides his website, Evan can be heard on Flight Line Internet Radio, and he writes a monthly column for Atlantic Flyer magazine. Recently, he was also interviewed on www.Airplanegeeks.com; you can hear him in the last half hour of Episode #62. It should be no surprise to anyone what Evan wants to do when he grows up. “I really want to be pilot,” he says. “Journalism is just my back-up career.”

Evan Isenstein-Brand sits in Tony Banta's P-40. Photo courtesy: Evan Isenstein-Brand Evan Isenstein-Brand removes the accessories from the back of a R2000 to get ready for pulling the engine. Besides writing about planes and aviators, he also enjoys working on them. Photo credit: EvanFlys.com Bruce Norris gave Evan a Young Eagle flight in his Cessna 195. Photo credit: EvanFlys.com

• 2010 - 07/19 - VSS Enterprise Completes First Crewed Flight
• 2010 - 07/16 - Students' Experiments to be Conducted on Space Station
• 2010 - 07/16 - Combs: 10 States Left to Go!
• 2010 - 07/09 - Solar Plane Flies Day and Night on Sun Power
• 2010 - 07/08 - Red Bull Cancels Portugal Air Race