Exploring

It’s human nature to learn a new skill, work hard to “perfect” it and then settle into a peaceable existence just inside your comfort...

You may have noticed, but things have gotten sort of expensive lately. The daily stuff has a new bite to it and the once...

Time to talk about the “parts” portion of my column tagline. I’ve been a professional buyer for over seven years and while I still...

The body of this month’s column is part informational, part confessional and part Zen and the Art of Experimental Maintenance. One of the most...

I wrote this in April to meet a May deadline for this September issue of KITPLANES®, which came out before AirVenture in July. I...

DeltaHawk’s DHK180 engine has received its FAA certification. Yes, that’s the same inverted-vee, four-cylinder, two-stroke Jet A-burning diesel we’ve heard about for years. And,...

With a title like that, you might expect that I’d excuse anyone without an instructor certificate from reading this month’s column. But if the...

Last month this column was full of low-skill derring-do; this month I’m back with another blood pressure raising potboiler, this time more of the...

In a story full of admissions, I must start by confessing I had been thinking of ways to not fly the same old hour...

There comes a time, fairly early in the kit-building process, where if a builder is constructing an aircraft to be flown with a stick...