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Paul Janssens

Paul Janssens
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Paul Janssens was born in Belgium in 1964 and made his first solo flight in a glider at age 15. He has since accumulated over 7800 hours in 45 types of gliders and has won the Belgian Gliding Championship and World Mountain Gliding Championship several times. He specializes in flying long distance in the Alps, and trains and instructs competitive, long-distance glider pilots. He flew in the Belgian Air Force for two years, flew private jets for seven years, and freight for 15 years. He has 5500 hours of powered flight time in 34 types. A designer of model aircraft, his web site is www.pjmodelclassics.be.

Still More Mistral Magic

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Flying a Glasair III with a Mistral rotary engine.

More Mistral Magic

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Installing a rotary engine in a Glasair III.

Mistral Magic

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Building a Glasair III with a Mistral rotary engine.

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Coping With Fear

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Aviation, especially Experimental aviation, carries along with its benefits an intrinsic risk that is hard to completely dismiss.

Cylinder Hones and Honing

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Honing and lapping are similar inasmuch as both employ abrasive action to remove metal...

The Ins and Outs of Pre-buys

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Dont buy a used Experimental aircraft without one (Part 1).

1990 and 2006 Redux

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Way back in 1990, when I had brown hair and was a wee lad...