Letters
Timing MagnetosDave Prizio's article on external timing of magnetos (October 2013) provides a very good description of the process. However, I may be able...
Archive: August 1989
We called it “Pulsar With a Purpose,” on our August 1989 cover, and it was Mark Brown’s popular follow-on to the single-seat Star-Lite, the...
Letters
Belt Tension ReferenceIn the June issue of KITPLANES® on page 34, the reference for checking alternator belt tension with a torque wrench is given...
Letters
Through New EyesJust read Tom Wilson's "Through New Eyes" and had to smile. It's a great piece regarding the pleasures of aviating—not just...
Letters
Confluence Avenue I enjoyed Paul Dyes Free Flight column, A confluence of little things, in the August issue. Id like to make my...
Archive: August 1991
Nat Puffer’s Cozy Mk IV was the cover subject of our August 1991 issue. Don Downie caught up with Nat and wife Shirley Puffer...
Letters
Spackling Paste? Wow!I commend Vince Homer for his exhaustive study of spackling paste as a filler/fairing compound over a foam base . However, I...
Letters
Searching for Bear Metal After an absence of many years, I'm starting to fly again and am looking to buy a homebuilt, already...
In Case You Missed it
Eliminating Egg-Shaped Holes
Quarter-inch pilot bits in hole saws have a tendency to enlarge the pilot hole...
RANS S-19
When new aircraft from two very different designers, in this case Randy Schlitter and Richard VanGrunsven, surface with considerable similarities, consensus about basic design tenets must be blowing in the wind. Certainly Light Sport regs do constrain performance considerations, but human factors are more up for grabs, and thats where one or another design can truly shine; by Marc Cook.
Aero ‘lectrics
Columnist Jim Weir offers his annual awards for the best products or services seen at Oshkosh/AirVenture 2007.