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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.

Flights of Fancy

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It’s more cliché than observation to note there’s a whole lot of dreaming going on in aviation.

Forgetting How?

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Overheard comments are often the most interesting, probably because your brain is in a more receptive mode than if also occupied trying to one-up...

Fast Squeeze

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Todd Rudberg’s RV-8 helps usher in a modern era of nitrous-oxide-assisted sport planes.

Fun With Emissions

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Making the rounds on the canned news circuit recently was the EPA announcing it’s going after emission controls for aviation. Oh boy. As an old...

Ly-Con Awarded GARDSert Process

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We were at Ly-Con Aircraft Engines the other day checking in on some O-200 cylinders when Ly-Con majordomo Ken Tunnell showed us a nifty...

The Fly As You Go Plan

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Learned colleague Paul Dye recently wrote about the time-limited nature of aviation hardware. That is, every bolt has its day. Eventually the cad plate...

Old World, New Engines

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After putting another $140 into the gas tanks of my 300-hp biplane, I have to admit the newer sport planes coming out of Europe...

Going Around

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Gallons of ink have been dedicated—with only minor effect—to figuring out what it is that joins pilots together. But clearly there’s something in the...

NXT Next

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Electroflight and Rolls-Royce partner to set the world’s electric airspeed record.

Higgs, Grove Form AC Aero

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Engine designer and industry consultant Andrew Higgs has joined with Sport class air racer Karl Grove to form AC Aero USA LLC. The new...

In Case You Missed it

Wind Tunnel

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Taking off in an aircraft would seem to be a fairly simple, straightforward maneuver. But in fact it’s complicated, and a combination of factors must be just right for it to work.

Building the 750SD XTREME: Part 5

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A weight-loss program.
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Home Shop Machinist: Power Polishing Promise

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Back in the February 2019 issue of KITPLANES®, I promised a column about polishing...

Lying to Baristas

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The year is 2021. Fear surrounding the pandemic has subsided a bit and the...