Trouble With Numbers

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For better or worse, pilots can be an analytical bunch. Not all of them, of course, since many are what you’d call seat-of-the-pants types...

Tire Tantrums

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There can’t be a single person engaged in the modern world who doesn’t have a tale to tell regarding tires. Most involve some variation...

Never Buy Meat From A Guy in a Parking Lot

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A builder—I’ll call him D. Thomas—told me A Guy told him he needed to modify his fuel system or it wouldn’t work. The basic...

Electric Airplane Fundamentals

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Hi, my name is Gabe and I’m an unabashed electric airplane nerd. I have built and flown two of my own electric aircraft, and...

Under Pressure

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No, this working title isn’t about sitting down close to my draft submission deadline staring at a blank screen. (But it could be.) This...

Working With Experience

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Part of my job is surprisingly solitary, moving words and photos around from my home office and corresponding with my staff and regular contributors...

High Flight

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All apologies to John Gillespie Magee Jr. for the title to this column, but I did fly a little higher than normal on my...

Pride and Progress

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I was caught off guard by the sight of familiar aircraft in the Sonex Aircraft flight center. “How?” you wonder. I’ll explain. I’m often...

A Spot of Bother

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This title phrase can, like so much in our language, be used to convey the truth of the matter, as intended, “a little trouble”...

Miles Versus Knots

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To put it politely, we were recently taken to task for using mph instead of knots when reporting on an aviation speed record because,...

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CubCrafters EX-3/FX-3

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Another better Cub!

Phase I Maintenance

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Some of the things to which new mechanics or new owners of Amateur-Built aircraft should pay attention.

Design Process: Landing Gear, Part 4

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Last month we looked at how the static stability of the airplane when it...

Alternative Energies

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In his debut column, Dean Sigler introduces the CAFE Foundation and explains its efforts to promote green technologies for aviation.