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Sparky Barnes

Sparky Barnes
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Sparky Barnes is an active pilot and longtime aviation author and photographer. She has written three aviation books and was the 2006 recipient of the Bax Seat Trophy, which is awarded to the EAA member who best communicates “the excitement and romance of grassroots aviation.” Sparky personally restored her 1948 Piper Vagabond.

The Stanley Screamer is One Sleek Sherpa!

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“I may never be able to buy an airplane…but maybe I can build one!” —Dale Stanley

America the Beautiful

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Flying Rosie “from sea to shining sea.”

Oh, Dry Up!

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Jim Katz builds a homemade engine dehumidifier.

This Fly Baby is the Katz’ Meow!

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In the early 1960s, a young Jim Katz was absorbing page after page in Air Progress magazine, and when he saw an article that...

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A builder can’t be faulted for thinking this part, dimensioned to 64ths of an inch and .001 of a millimeter, is critical, but the precise dimensions spring from the designer setting the CAD program’s auto dimensioning resolution far too low.

Measuring: Go To Lengths To Get It Right

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Measure twice, cut once. That's sound advice, though no guarantee you won’t measure wrong...

Aero ‘lectrics

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Sounds good to me.

Rapid Prototyping and Experimental Design

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Coupon testing, part 3. By Eric Stewart and Brian Paris.

Kit Stuff

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Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha.