Kneeboard Notes

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Prop Swap!

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...