Kneeboard Notes

Some days, aviation isn't about experimentals - it can be hard to pass up the opportunity to get a ride in a classic! Today was such a day - the EAA's Ford Tri-motor is in town (giving rides out of the Carson City, Nevada airport through the weekend.

Formica covered workbenches are wonderful, and I do admire the way they look when the shop is all cleaned up. They are great for maintenance jobs that require grease and oil once the airplane is flying. But for efficient construction of airplanes, give me a sacrificial workbench surface.

We're working to assemble the right spar of our Xenos motor glider, and one of the tough things I found on the left spar...

Ed. note: These notes are part of Paul Dye's article about attending Lycoming's engine assembly school. For such “simple” engines, Lycoming type power plants, there...

Whenever I find myself in Oshkosh in the "off-season" for EAA meetings and vents, I try and drop in on our friends at Sonex...

We've finished up the left spar for our Xenos motor glider, and that means starting what seems like a whole new airplane project to...

I keep getting asked how our Tundra repair project has been coming along, and since I've talked about it here before, it is only...

No, it's not experimental - but it is a little different. It's not often I find a J-3 Cub with a 100 horse C-85...

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...

It's always pleasant to spend a little time in the workshop making chips (or curlicues) out of 4130 Steel rod stock - especially when you have a use for the parts you are making. Such was my afternoon today - turning raw stock into squeezer die extensions to help set the rivets on our Xenos spar project.