Tom Wilson
Pumping avgas and waxing flight school airplanes got Tom into general aviation in 1973, but the lure of racing cars and motorcycles sent him down a motor journalism career heavy on engines and racing. Today he still writes for peanuts and flies for fun.
Sounding Off
Like some sort of verbal restricted area, certain subjects are such tropes in aviation scribbling that I steer around them like they were cumulonimbus....
EAA AirVenture Cup Race Applications Now Available
Applications for the 26th annual EAA AirVenture Cup Race are now available online. The 2024 AirVenture Cup Race begins at 9:00 am CDT on...
Case for the Lyconsaur
Last time we met, the question was if the engines of the future had already arrived. This time I’d like to turn around and...
Is the Future Here?
For ages one of the most common laments in aviation is we’re still flying around behind ancient engines. LyConsaurs they’re called, and when in...
Corvair
Azalea Aviation
Bill Clapp at Azalea Aviation offers Corvair engines as a sideline to his main business, Saberwing aircraft. Those planes use his 100- and...
Dynamometer Break-In: Worth It
Running a new engine on a test stand or, especially, a dyno, makes so much sense we don’t know why everyone doesn’t do it.
Circling the Airport
Building Experimental aviation engines is a tough business at best, so engine programs come and go. Furthermore, as sport aviation blossoms into the competition...
Jets & Turboprops
PBS Aerospace
Even with all the recent interest in small turboprops, there is but one place to burn kerosene in the build-it-yourself world. The SubSonex...
In Case You Missed it
The Home Machinist
Using a real computer-assisted design (CAD) program to design your panel has multiple benefits.
The Dawn Patrol
When Sharon Starks Airdrome Aeroplanes DH-2 replica fighter was ready for its airworthiness inspection, The Dawn Patrol was hoping for a perfect score.
