Kneeboard Notes

The annual Soaring Society of America convention is underway in Reno, Nevada, and since there are (and always have been) homebuilt sailplanes, we felt...

I don't often succumb to those folks selling special tools at big shows - you know the folks that have special jewelry cleaner, or...

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures, and in these days of social isolation from COVID-19, aviators who still want to congregate for community support...

Early morning is the time for flight testing, especially in summer, and especially in the high desert! Today's mission was to do the first...

One never stops learning! Although I have been working on airplanes most of my life, I still smile when I get to learn something...

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...

I have always found that the success in a highly technical endeavor that encompasses a vast sea of knowledge is not about memorizing everything...

I haven't reported much recently on our Xenos Motor glider project, mostly because the past half year the push has been to get our...

It's always peaceful to stop drilling metal and pounding rivets once in awhile, and settle down to the workbench with a soldering iron and...

Our twenty (plus) year old quick-build F1 Rocket kit came covered in a variety of twenty (plus) year old vinyl and plastic.