Exploring

It was just two days before standing down for an annual inspection, so I thought to take the ol’ box kite out for a...

“Customers are always right except in matters of money.” Those stark-but-telling words were emblazoned on a sign in the break area of a fast-food...

When I first started construction on my RV-10 in 2007, old-school incandescent lights were making their way out of the market and LEDs were...

There was a time when we had multiple airshows and events in a year that had at their center (or near to it) Experimental...

Building airplanes involves a lot of stuff, as we all have noticed by now. There are the special materials and finished goods required by...

I’ve found coffee and aviation are inexorably linked.

On January 20, 2022, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) petitioned the FAA with a long-anticipated safety recommendation report concerning the hazards of carbon...

Aviation, especially Experimental aviation, carries along with its benefits an intrinsic risk that is hard to completely dismiss.

I have to admit that the KR has never really had a prominent spot on my radar. Certainly not for any negative reason. Mostly,...

Awash with ideas and follow-up chores, the writing workbench is looking about as disheveled as the one out in the hangar, so we’ll take...