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Second Chance Six

As Oshkosh 2025 nears, Tenley rallies support and tackles critical inspection tasks to get RV-6 N2165U flying again.

Eating the Elephant—Part 2

One step forward, two steps back

Second Chance Six

Part 14: To fix or not to fix?

Building the 750SD XTREME: Part 15

Why is this airplane xtreme?

Eating the Elephant

One person can’t imagine eating a whole elephant. It’s simply impossible. But the answer to the idiomatic question remains: one bite at a time!

Building the 750SD XTREME: Part 14

Out of the holding pattern, onto the panel.

Second Chance Six

Part 13: Assessing the ailerons, learning the lathe and plotting the wiring.

Building the 750SD XTREME: Part 13

Things to do while in the holding pattern.

Second Chance Six

Part 12: Final painted parts, installing wings and things, autopilot servos.

Second Chance Six

Part 11: Starting to wire my Advanced Flight Systems panel, installing a new fuel selector and more!

In Case You Missed It

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Build, Test, Refine and Fix—Part 1: Ground Tests

Barnaby Wainfan - 0
At some point, a configuration of the airplane is frozen, a prototype is built and testing begins.
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Saurenman Aero Works REVO

Jonathan & Julia Apfelbaum - 0
Lean, mean aerobatic machine.
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Repeat Offender

Myron Nelson - 2
This time I want an airplane strictly built for the joy of flying. I want something simple and relatively cheap for that magical first and last half-hour of daylight, to be low and slow with no place in particular to go and sporting a massive grin.
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Aero ‘lectrics

Jim Weir - 0
Staying current, part 2.
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