Shop Talk

As a new builder I came quickly to the step of needing to mark rib centerlines to align the ribs with the predrilled holes in the skin.

For some builders, the prospect of flaring hard-line tubing is daunting. Ishmael Fuentes demystifies the process, and shows you how to get good results every time.

Dialing in with test indicators.

Blind rivet selection and installation.

Let me say right up front that I hate nutserts. Also called rivet nuts, threaded inserts or rivnuts. (I’m sure there’s a formal product...

Locate that hole-precisely!

Keeping your plane on the straight and narrow.

Instrument holes-they're easy and fun with the right tools.

A few months back in this very column, I suggested that pilots should keep a “retired” smart phone in their aircraft as an all-in-one...

I’ve been reading recently through a collection of builder log segments with various descriptions of how the builders notated on their paper plans that...