Kneeboard Notes

I know, the picture isn't very good, and the lighting is poor - but there in the middle are the recently joined left and right spars for our nascent Xenos Motorglider - and if it were any longer, it would need two zip codes!

You know that summer is here when you see shy fuel tanks, basking in the sun! In this case, we were able to capture the...

Poring over press releases from all "Big Three" piston aircraft engine manufacturers got me thinking about the engines I have out in my own hangar, hanging off our stable of airplanes.

President Trump's characterization of the United States Air Traffic Control system was a statement, unsupported by evidence, that listeners are supposed to believe...

We had everything but a jack- all the tools we needed to change a tail wheel on our Tundra were a set of pliers,...

Ahhhh... this is what utility planes are for! They're not about getting halfway across the country in a day, not about aerobatics, and not...

I like harnesses - especially ones that make me feel secure. Our Tundra came with standard lap and shoulder belts that used the age-old...

How can you tell this plane has been to Oshkosh (or, to be fair, maybe Sun 'n Fun)? By looking in the passenger side...

Whenever I get a chance to wander through the EAA Museum in Oshkosh, as I did last week, I like to stop and pay tribute to the older, early planes that represent the roots of homebuilding. Sure, there are all sorts of neat high performance and record setting airplanes - but these simple planes that harken back to an earlier era are what got this whole "experimental aviation" thing going for us.

To some, extreme sports are jumping off mountains with a wing suit, snowboarding off cliffs, or mountain biking on a razor's edge ridge in...