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Steve Ashby

Steve Ashby
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Steve Ashby is a sometime lawyer and full-time aviation aficionado from Atlanta, Georgia. He learned to fly in 1980 and has adopted a 1968 Skyhawk (your Grandma could fly it). Steve is also working on a Van's RV-8A which he swears will be completed on (a) Thursday.

Weather Blocks Sun ‘n Fun Arrivals

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A massive line of thunderstorms in Alabama, Georgia and north Florida have blocked northerly based homebuilt aircraft from the Sun 'n Fun fly-in, which...

If Maverick And Penny Benjamin Had a Baby

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AirVenture in the one place on planet earth where more aviation innovation is exposed to humanity in a single week than any other time...

Old Pilot’s Camper Journal – Oshkosh 2022 Edition – Final

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The final day of AirVenture is always a little melancholic. You have had so much fun and excitement that part of you does not...

Martin Pauly Explains Lean of Peak

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Many have heard of operating their aircraft engines lean of peak, but few really understand what that phrase means. A fair amount of distrust...

Team Rocket Finds a New Home

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Team Rocket, the manufacturer of the F1 Rocket kit aircraft, is moving from its home in Mt. Vernon, Indiana to a larger and better...

Resurrected Helicycle Ventures Flying High (Literally)

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After the death of Helicycle founder B. J. Schramm, the personal kit helicopter company floundered for a while, that is until Helicycle builder Keith...

Old Pilot’s Camper Journal – Oshkosh 2022 Edition – Day 8

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Walking through the Homebuilt Camping area at AirVenture is always a sensory overload for kit builders. Whatever you are building, or hoping to build,...

Get a Tail Lift at Flyboy Accessories

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Taildragger pilots all eventually are confronted wit the need to lift their aircraft’s tail by its tiny little tail wheel to perform service. Somehow,...

Air Command Gyroplane Resurrection

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In the mid 1990s entrepreneur Dennis Fetters sought to energize gyroplanes in the experimental aircraft world with an updated design and a lot of...

Old Pilot’s Camper Journal – Oshkosh 2022 Edition – Day 7

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I have now ”camped” in the University of Wisconsin/Oshkosh dorms for six nights and believe I have enough data and experience to report. Cost It costs...

In Case You Missed it

Aero ‘lectrics

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Jim Weir lays the groundwork for a DIY LED rotating beacon project.

Unairworthy

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Loose jam nuts.

Aero ‘lectrics

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Common courtesy.

Down to Earth

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Amy Laboda chronicles the challenges she encountered when trying to get the ECI B-type cylinders for her certified Lycoming IO-540 replaced.