Tale of Two Pitots

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As part of an EAA Safety committee promoting the use of angle of attack flying, I fly a lot of different AoA systems. In...

Tune-Up Time

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Like the proverbial frog who doesn’t know that the pot of water is getting warmer, it is easy to adapt to an airplane or...

Always Another Tool

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One of the things I brought back from AirVenture last week was a kit from Flyleds to build two LED landing lights that we’re...

Grandaddy Document

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We’re helping a neighbor friend clean out the hangar of her late husband, and running across all sorts of things that he collected as...

OSH23 – The REAL Kneeboard Notes

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When I put my occasional musings on the web for KITPLANES, I refer to them as “Kneeboard Notes,” jottings that come to mind as...

Brushing Up

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One of the unfortunate things about the massive capability that computers give us in today’s world is that we rarely have the time to...

Getting Around on the Grounds

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First time visitors to EAA AirVenture predictably utter the standard pronouncement, “I had no idea it was so BIG!” I always try to prepare...

Hardware Musings

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Two thoughts come from the shop today: First—all you RV pilots out there, the nylon locknuts you need are MS21083N8. They are about a buck...

Slack Time – Part 5

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Prop Swap!

Slack Time – Part 4

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So about welding… I have spent 50 years working on airplanes of all types and materials—from tube and rag to metal plus a bit of...

In Case You Missed it

Flange Transplant

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Moving the end flange on a rib. By KITPLANES® Staff.

Archive: November 1997

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Ron Wanttaja sampled the still-new Van’s RV-8 for our cover story in the November...

Multimeter Basics

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I am always amazed when I get a new crop of freshman students in...

Fit and Trim

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A first flight reveals truths that only air moving over an aircraft’s surfaces can...