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The more your build—or modify or maintain your Experimental—the more you come to understand the need for specialist tools.
Our Top 10 Web Stories of 2023
Since 2024 is just rolling in the door and we’ve closed the books on ‘23, time to take a look at our most popular web stories from the last year.
Stewart Delivers
About ten days before Christmas, we fell into an incredible deal on an F1 Rocket kit (and a motor!) that was located in central...
Machine, Weld… Repeat!
The project was certainly educational, and those of you with lots of experience welding will chuckle at my expense.
Avionics: Do You Document?
A friend at my airport confessed to having some avionics problems. His homebuilt’s instruments include a Garmin G5 for a primary instrument, a BendixKing...
Stick Bushing
Things that move wear out. That’s buried in a law of physics I once learned having to do with entropy. In this case, that...
Plug That Hole!
Got an extra hole in your baffles? In this case, we were removing an unused purge valve return line that had penetrated the baffles...
Minor Surgery
In my ongoing effort to equip our home fleet of airplanes with as many Angle of Attack systems as possible, we recently upgraded the...
Sometimes, Ya’ Just Gotta’ Fly
It was almost ten o’clock last night when the text came in from an airpark neighbor—“$2.99 per gallon Avgas at Yerington tomorrow from 0700...
Tale of Two Pitots
As part of an EAA Safety committee promoting the use of angle of attack flying, I fly a lot of different AoA systems. In...
In Case You Missed It
Vertical Power
This brand new power management system harnesses CPU power to eliminate the need for much of an aircrafts wiring by consolidating major electrical functions into a single box. It comprises three units: a display, controller module/panel housing and mag controller. Bundled into the setup are radios, instruments (including GPS, EFIS and engine monitoring) and lights. Each flight phase is broken down into the tasks normally performed manually by the pilot, and the VP-200 addresses them more or less automatically, while also providing override capability in the event of a system failure.
Archive: January 1992
The pointy, provocative nose of the Berkut punctuated our heavily processed cover this month....
Wind Tunnel
Yaw rarely occurs without rolling, and roll rarely occurs without yawing. This month Barnaby Wainfan discusses coupled motion, including adverse yaw, the spiral mode and Dutch roll.
