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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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Editor’s Log

Mary Bernard - 0
Editor Mary Bernard addresses readers’ concerns about legibility in the magazine and offers a correction about pricing of the Safari kit helicopter.
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Poka-Yoke Cable Clamp

Bob Hadley - 3
From a machinist’s point of view, the clamp couldn’t be simpler: A couple of grooves, some bolt holes and you’re done.
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Low Fuel, Idiot, Light

Bob Hadley - 1
In the year 2019 BC (before COVID), I made a number of cross-country trips...
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Editor’s Log

Mary Bernard - 0
The explosion of ADS-B technology, the new Van’s RV-14 and an editor in a ballistic-parachute simulator—AirVenture was full of exciting developments, as always. Plus: a send-off for Editor-at-Large Marc Cook. By Editor-in-Chief Mary Bernard.
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