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Learning to Weld

Ken Scott - September 19, 2011

The Ultimate Upgrade

All About Avionics: Wire Stripping and Crimping

Experimotive

Sim World

When It’s Time to Throw That Landing Away

LeRoy Cook - May 17, 2019 0

How to go around safely.

Rabbit Holes

Myron Nelson - May 17, 2019 1

Conquering unforeseen challenges when building, flying, and maintaining an aircraft.

Something Different

Scott Spangler - May 17, 2019 3

Building a Breezy for the 21st century.

First Time Builders

Dave Martin - March 20, 2004 4

Here's how to maximize your chance of success.

ADSB - the final lap

ADS-B – The Final Lap

Dick Sunderland - July 20, 2019 1

The real deadline is upon us for ADS-B, are you ready?

It’s Da Bom!

Paul Dye - July 26, 2019 2

Levil Aviation’s BOM puts pitot-static, AHRS, GPS, ADS-B In, and its own power source right under your wing.

Error Chain: It’s What You Don’t Know That’ll Kill You

Jeremy Solomon - July 21, 2019 1

Or, how to be lucky and dumb–a hypothetical tale in three acts.

Evaluating Aircraft

Paul Dye - July 18, 2019 2

How to test-fly an airplane and decide if it’s right for you.

Tom Aberle said he looked at Phantom daily for a couple of years trying to decide if it was ugly or beautiful, and while its combination of angles and curves is unique, its 12 championships make it beautiful in our eyes.

Biplane Gold

Tom Wilson - July 27, 2019 1

Phantom dominates biplane pylon racing by harnessing traditional homebuilding talent.

Rion Bourgeois (left) and Philip Groelz test the tank for leaks.

Building the Bearhawk LSA

Ken Scott - July 22, 2019 0

What could possibly go wrong?

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Making Parts

Paul Dye - February 19, 2015 0

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Scott Spangler - May 30, 2021 2

Les Krumel invested 22 years building his award-winning Thorp T-18.

Building the ‘Beater – Part 8

Vic Syracuse - February 25, 2024 1

Looking back on the project.

Alternative Energies

Dean Sigler - September 20, 2012 0

Chip Yates is a man with a plan—to follow Lindbergh’s historic transatlantic flight in an all-electric plane. The flight’s planned for 2014; in the meantime, there are battery challenges to solve. By Dean Sigler.