Completions

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Builders share their successes.

Avionics Special: Surfing the Rapids

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Marc Cooks installation of Grand Rapids Technologies Horizon HX synthetic vision EFIS is darned near plug-and-play, and works beautifully.

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.

In Case You Missed It

No Spark—No Joy

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High-resistance plugs and tester.

Safety Is No Accident: Fatality Rates for Homebuilt Aircraft

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The accident fatality rate for homebuilt aircraft is higher than the GA rate, but why?

Super Legend HP

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The ASTM Titan engine finds another home in a new kit from American Legend. And yeah, its a hotrod. By Paul Bertorelli.

Thrust Line Effects

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The propeller of an airplane generates thrust that drives it through the air. In...