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Continental Pushrod Tube Modification

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Owners of a certain type of Continental engine, the cam-at-the-bottom variety, are undoubtedly familiar with the annoying seepage of oil from swaged pushrod tubes and rubber pushrod seals. Now there's a cure, and author Ron Darcey describes the fix.

In Case You Missed It

Archive: June 2013

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Sonex’s blazing yellow Onex was on our cover this month—proclaiming “half the seats, twice...

Hawking That New Engine

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After 20 years the long-gestating DeltaHawk diesel is suddenly hotter than Jeff LaVelle’s turbos on a 400-mph lap.

15 Ways to Make Your Airplane Safer

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Ed Wischmeyer reminds us of some simple maintenance tasks that will help keep an aircraft shipshape.

Archive: May 2014

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The Vortex M912 gyroplane was our cover subject a decade ago for the May 2014 issue.