Preparing for Your First Flight

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The paperwork, the plane, and the pilot must come together for success.

Rapid Prototyping and Experimental Design

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Upping Our Game.

Driving Down the High Costs of Aircraft Ownership

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Building a trailer for a Quickie Q200.

Homemade Compressed Air Brake Bleeder

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An inexpensive tool for quickly bleeding aircraft brakes.

Anodizing and Fatigue Life

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Yes, you would like to win an award for best helicopter. Yes, you also understand judges score highly on appearance. Yes, plain aluminum...

Teaching Helpers How to Rivet

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What works for you may not work for them. By Philip Clifton.

Roll Your Own Pitot Tube Cover

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An easy solution when commercially available covers wont fit. By Axel Alvarez.

Engine Theory: Modifications

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Getting Practical-What can you do for a better engine?

Ask the DAR

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Proving compliance with the 51% rule, licensing ELSA or E/A-B, using an LSA commercially.

The Ins and Outs of Pre-buys

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Dont buy a used Experimental aircraft without one (Part 2).

In Case You Missed It

Wheel Pant Suspenders

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The challenge with this wheel pant was where to mount it, and how.

The Art of Corner Blocking in Wood Aircraft Construction

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Tips for working smarter when making these small, critical parts.
The best builders learn to combine both mindsets. They build like engineers but think like future mechanics. [Credit: Bill Wilson]

Building vs. Fixing

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Somewhere during every aircraft project, a builder faces a quiet moment of truth. It...