Paul Dye
Paul Dye has been the Editor-in-Chief and Editor at Large. He retired as a Lead Flight Director for NASA’s Human Space Flight program, with 50 years of aerospace experience on everything from Cubs to the Space Shuttle. An avid homebuilder, he began flying and working on airplanes as a teen and has experience with a wide range of construction techniques and materials. He flies an RV-8 and SubSonex jet that he built, an RV-3 that he built with his pilot wife, as well as a Dream Tundra and an electric Xenos motorglider they completed. Currently, they are building an F1 Rocket. A commercially licensed pilot, he has logged over 6000 hours in many different types of aircraft and is an A&P, FAA DAR, EAA Tech Counselor and Flight Advisor; he was formerly a member of the Homebuilder’s Council. He consults and collaborates in aerospace operations and flight-testing projects across the country.
OSH23 – The REAL Kneeboard Notes
When I put my occasional musings on the web for KITPLANES, I refer to them as “Kneeboard Notes,” jottings that come to mind as...
Trinkets and Projects from Oshkosh
Admit it: There’s just no way that you can come back from Oshkosh without something for your airplane, or project, or living room wall!...
The Scalewings SW-51 Evolves
Scalewings Aircraft (based in Germany) has ben busy since we got a chance to fly their first production kit aircraft last fall, and they...
Donuts Are Essential
Anyone who has every seen my presentation on Flight Testing should know that along with a trained pilot, good procedures, and excellent weather, a...
Rumors of the Canards’ Demise
Rumors of the demise of the Rutan canard designs have ben greatly exaggerated. Once the pinnacle of aircraft design achievement, the canard configured aircraft...
Signs of the Times
Off to the side of the massive field of homebuilts, you can find a shack that might have well been built by Paul Poberezny...
Radiant De-Ice Technology
Radiant Technology, the company founded by James Wiebe (former head of BeLite Aircraft), is known for bringing interesting technologies into the experimental world. He’s...
One Time Good Deal!
Found in the Fly-Market - one owner, sometimes hangared, a clear fixer-upper. No low-ball offers—they know what they’ve got!
Brushing Up
One of the unfortunate things about the massive capability that computers give us in today’s world is that we rarely have the time to...
Oshkosh Standoff
Left here for your amusement: Is this how AirVenture photographers warm up for the day? Or is this just how they compare, uhhh... ”equipment”?...
In Case You Missed It
Building the Affordaplane, Part 2
From a construction standpoint this ultralight design is quite unusual in some ways and very traditional in others.
Flight Review: Lockwood Super Drifter
Like piloting an AirCam, only more so, the Lockwood Super Drifter is for those who can’t get enough of that wind-in-your-hair feeling.