Exploring

As I start this article, we are between Baker, Nevada, and Hinckley, Utah, which is quite remote. We are stranded “MOG’’ (motor home on...

Way back in the previous century—closer to the middle of the century than the end—I learned that the secret to cross-country navigation was a...

Airplanes are born of time and tedium. Mostly tedium. A harsh statement, yet a true one. There’s just no way around deburring the thousands...

Apparently having done something evil in a former life, I’ve been consigned to toil on this magazine’s Engine Buyer’s Guide in this life. I...

Recently I walked into Van’s Aircraft and kissed the cutest engineer I could find. He didn’t seem that thrilled. I suppose that’s what happens...

One Monday morning I opened an email from the second owner of a Onex. It was sent at 8:12 p.m. on Saturday. An attached...

Having more gas on board than needed for a given flight seems easy enough to comprehend, yet every year an alarming number of flights...

Few disagree that the Experimental/Amateur-Built world revolves around gas-burning piston engines. Of course, the legacy engines have had a significant head start but Rotax...

Hot-rodding the venerable Rotax four-strokes.

The press of business being what it is, I recently found myself in bucolically superior British Columbia at Murphy Aircraft. The major result of...