Exploring

At AirVenture this year—just before it, actually—the FAA released the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking encompassing MOSAIC, short for Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certificates. The...

I was an airplane nut for as long as I can remember even though I had no family exposure to aviation. My father was...

I know many of you following the progress of my Hummingbird helicopter are probably thinking that flying it to the show is what made...

I returned from AirVenture with a few story ideas and a horrible illness that prevented me from doing much of anything. “Might as well...

This month’s column is inspired by the most recent AirVenture, which has left me reflecting on how it really isn’t the aircraft that draw...

In magazine land—a parallel universe to the real world—I’m writing this between Oshkosh and Reno. The time between these two big events is a...

I never set out to write a hardware trilogy, yet here we are. A little ditty on washer usage begat a column on bolt-length...

There’s something you probably can guess about so-called factory airplanes—examples of Experimental aircraft built for design evaluation as well as press and customer exposure—but...

Shoppin’ for a project, are ya? Here are some truths: Factory-stated build times are bare minimums. Double them and then toss that number out...

As I start this month’s column, it hasn’t fully sunk in that I won’t be going back to Reno, but I still feel a...