Four Decades Old, Look At Us Now

3
Publisher Dennis Shattuck took a flier on a growing segment of aviation back when magazines littered newsstands across the country and well before we...
The most difficult compromises live in the middle of the performance envelope, while the easiest decisions are found at each end of the spectrum. This VW installation emphasizes economy over performance, so a prop gearbox would be an obvious complication.

Compromises

4
Never one to revel in the practical, recently I found myself expounding to a colleague on why the general aviation world moves at 2700 rpm.

Parts Is Parts

0
A major part of any Experimental kit will be hundreds of products that the kit supplier didn’t manufacture or fabricate but simply sourced from the open market to supply with their custom kit components.

Target Fixation Taught by Trees

0
I was chopping firewood under a dead ash tree, whiffing deep, ax-head-shaped divots into my lawn, when I remembered the time, once upon a takeoff, that a living oak tree nearly got the best of me.

The Most Dangerous Thing in the Cockpit

1
Forget about all those sharp corners, the quantity of fuel aboard and the fire extinguisher you threw in the baggage compartment without tying it down. It is always important to at least consider the fact that the most dangerous thing to have in the cockpit when things go wrong is the owner of the airplane.

It’s Toy Season!

0
Because few new products get announced at Sun ’n Fun, there’s often a dead zone between April and the big intros at AirVenture in July. But that doesn’t mean it’s total dullsville. A couple of new bits have caught my eye recently.

Flight Review: Falken Avionics iPad-based EFIS

4
By now, the Apple iPad has established itself as a strong utility player in many aircraft, most often running as a so-called electronic flight bag (EFB) to display moving maps, charts, weather and traffic. But Falken Avionics’ Flight View system has a different take on putting Apple’s tablet to use—as a primary instrument. 

A Hangar Fit for a Bride

1
Since we live on an airpark, have a large hangar of our own and my fiancé works for an airplane-kit company, many friends have...

Bending Your Brain

1
Humans are amazingly adaptable but sometimes we lack imagination. Here’s one example.

Sounding Off

2
Like some sort of verbal restricted area, certain subjects are such tropes in aviation scribbling that I steer around them like they were cumulonimbus....

In Case You Missed It

Wandering with Woodstock

0
Getting to know our GlaStar better while exploring the Colorado Rockies.

Contributors

0
Ron AlexanderOur popular Build Your Skills: Fabric series comes to a close with the...

Making Patches

1
Saving a metal cowl from self-destruction.

Simplicity

0
Countless modifications for homebuilts are available, but does that mean they're right for our projects? Paul Dye discusses the value of keeping things simple.