Build a Bear: Put the Fabric in Fabrication

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Dave Prizio evaluates the two major fabric covering systems – PolyFiber and Air-Tech – and sets to work, patiently covering his Texas Sport Cub airframe.

The Independence Project: We Start the Finish Kit

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The Independence Project presses on, this time tackling the multiple tasks that make up the finish kit on the RV-12. By Dave Martin.

Build a Bear: Moving Right Along

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It’s starting to look like a Sport Cub. Dave Prizio gets to work on the systems and finishes the wings.

The Independence Project: Forward to the Fuselage

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Dave Martin marches ahead with the Van’s RV-12, inventorying fuselage hardware, attaching the sideskins, working on other subassemblies and mating the tail cone to the fuselage. Progress!

Flight Testing: Static System Error – Theory and Practice, Part 2

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In Part 2 of the series, Kevin Horton shows you how to gather and interpret flight-test data to identify static system error (spreadsheets included).

To Launch a Light Sport

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Bob Fritz uses a couple of HVLP paint guns in preparation for painting his Jabiru J250. Which one is the top gun?

Completions

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Builders share their successes.

Flight Review: Four to Tango

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Chuck Berthe puts Team Tango’s Foxtrot 4 through its paces, and finds it to be a capable aircraft with the potential to be even better as the design is refined.

Hear the Hum?

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Whats the buzz? David Ullman looks at the past, present and future of the electric airplane.

Avionics Special: Construction Zone

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Marc Cook succumbs to the siren song of the Garmin G3X, and clears the flight deck for an avionics upgrade.

In Case You Missed It

Orso dItalia

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While its not exactly a Cub clone, Groppos new Trail kit shares some of the same DNA as Pipers classic. By Paul Bertorelli.

All About Avionics

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With all of the ways to get GPS information into the cockpit, a handheld unit remains a viable option. By Stein Bruch.

Those Wright Brothers are at it Again

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The original homebuilt.

Wind Tunnel

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In order to bank the airplane and execute a turn properly, adverse yaw must be countered or eliminate altogether. The discussion of how to do this includes rudder control, aileron-rudder interconnects, directional stability, differential ailerons, aileron drag and the use of spoilers;