Avionics Shop On a Box

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A work platform for easy access to avionics.

(Un)Boxing Day

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Everyone knows that “Boxing Day” is December 26th (an old-world holiday that few celebrate on our side of the pond). This year, we celebrated...

Wiring Tool Favorites

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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

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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

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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!

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The project was certainly educational, and those of you with lots of experience welding will chuckle at my expense.

Avionics: Do You Document?

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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

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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!

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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

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In my ongoing effort to equip our home fleet of airplanes with as many Angle of Attack systems as possible, we recently upgraded the...

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Home Shop Machinist

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Spline-al tap.

Homebuilt Accidents: Captains vs. Fledglings

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How does pilot experience affect the accident rate?

Magnetos For Half VW Engines

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Points to ponder at replacement time.
Flight instructor giving transition training in a Sonex aircraft. Training is beneficial for insurance rates

Insurance And Training

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Just because you built it, doesn't mean you're ready to fly it.