In the Details
I often talk about how complicated failures can be traced back to some tiny, seemingly insignificant detail - and here’s a recent example from...
Meeting your Heroes
Meeting your heroes can turn out to be a disappointment, a let down. But this is not always the case. And the news of John Glenn's passing reminded me that yes, indeed, there are heroes that live up to the name.
Long Spar – Meet Big Squeezer!
One good reason to make lots of friends when you get in to homebuilding--sooner or later you're going to need a special tool, and...
More Time to Comment on FAA Hangar-Use Policy
Agency grants extension requests from EAA, CAF, others
September 2, 2014 - The Federal Aviation Administration will allow an additional 30 days to comment on its proposed...
Discretion… and all that
Sometimes discretion really is the better part of valor. I'm sitting here in my home on the east side of the Sierra, just down...
Nose Job
There comes a time in every plane's life when you just have to take her down for maintenance. Our RV-3B is probably the most...
Ninety Knots to Oshkosh
Practice, practice, practice - it's what we all tell folks to do before they head to the Fiske Arrival and the great Airventure experience! Flying in to the "the show" is a bucket list item for most pilots, and it requires you to be sharp - but is flying at 90 knots enough?
How Many…How Much?
When you reach the end of a project (an airplane is never really finished, so we just say "the end of a project"), you...
Van's New Secret Project
I recently got a call from Van's Aircraft saying they had something I really needed to see--so I saddled up my favorite cross-country machine...
Flight Test Note… Check the Screws
It is easy to get wrapped up in the flying aspect of flight testing when taking an airplane through phase 1. We preflight, then...
In Case You Missed It
Maintenance Matters: Yearly Condition Inspections
Yearly condition inspections-the rest of the story.
Hose Protection
Ishmael Fuentes shows you how to protect and cool the hoses in your engine compartment by making a firesleeve.