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Kerry Fores

Kerry Fores
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Kerry Fores was born and raised in Oshkosh, WI and was interested in homebuilding by age 12. Between 1998 and 2003 he scratchbuilt and polished a Sonex, which he named Metal Illness. Kerry logged nearly 500 hours in Metal Illness and was awarded Plans Built Champion at AirVenture 2006. Kerry is retired from a 21-year career at Sonex Aircraft, most of it dedicated to supporting builders.

Fit and Trim

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A first flight reveals truths that only air moving over an aircraft’s surfaces can reveal. Will the engine cool properly? Will the cockpit fill...

Keeping a Battery Current

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“With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being...

One Week Wonder—That’s a Wrap!

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With one second remaining on the clock, the Sonex One Week Wonder was still one hour from having a functioning nervous system. Deadlines. Who...

Patience, Kindness and Understanding

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AirVenture! It’s finally here. How is it a year can pass so quickly yet take so long? For many, AirVenture is more than the...

Can We Talk? (Boy, Can We!)

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One of my favorite AirVenture activities is eavesdropping as people tell their buddy about the Sonex product line. They confidently say that Sonex took...

Caffeine and Quality

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I’ve found coffee and aviation are inexorably linked.

Terms and Conditions

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“Customers are always right except in matters of money.” Those stark-but-telling words were emblazoned on a sign in the break area of a fast-food...

Extra Fuel–What Price Range?

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What from our evolutionary past predisposed us to the need for more? Always more. What scarcity did our species experience that threatened our survival...

AeroConversions AeroVee Turns 20

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The peoples’ engine still fills a niche.

Dispassionate Pursuits

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At the very moment I was on final for Oshkosh’s Runway 9 in pursuit of a tailwheel endorsement, my flight instructor’s son was rising...

In Case You Missed It

Light Stuff

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The state of Oregon has a new law that mandates using ethanol in all auto fuel, potentially affecting thousands of pilots, especially owners of most of todays Light Sport Aircraft powered by the ubiquitous Rotax 912 engine. It may not be too late to take action against similar legislation that could be brewing in your state; by Dave Martin.

Around the Patch

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Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook discusses the potential impact of changes to the FAAs 51% rule, which are the result of increasingly complex aircraft being constructed with the aid of builder-assistance programs.

Experimotive

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You know those engine vendors you usually see at the big annual air shows? Where do they go when they disappear? Detective Rick Lindstrom is on the case.

Home Shop Heat Treating

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Picking up from last month, the spline broaching tools have been machined. We need...