Priming Tubes

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Sometimes the bear gets you. Sometimes you get the bear. Today, I got the bear.Almost every airplane has a tube or weldment, and often...

Tips From the New Guy

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Picking your panel. By David Boeshaar.

Best Practices – Hand Tools

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Hand Tools.

Home Shop Machinist

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Clean-cut hoses.

Cables and Pulleys

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Even though many planes have most of their flight controls actuated by pushrods and bellcranks, for the rest of us cables and pulleys do...

Aero ‘lectrics

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Sounds good to me.

Back Riveting Universal Rivets

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We've all had one of those parts to rivet. The squeezer won't fit, so it has to be the gun and bar, but...

Dealing With Builder’s Fear

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Tips From the New Guy

Best Practices – Fastener Safety

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Cotter pins, safety wire, lock washers, and thread lockers.

Home Shop Machinist

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Acrylic windshield restoration.

In Case You Missed it

The Ultimate Upgrade

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Martha and Wendell Solesbee begin the painstaking process of installing systems on their Lancair Evo kit-from engine and fuel, to electrical and landing gear.

Perking up the performance of a Glasair Sportsman

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Power Flow exhaust shows a measureable efficiency gain over the standard system.

Letters

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Compound Modifier Yes, the turbo-compound engine written about by Paul Lamar does...

Checkpoints

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Bad building practices.