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You see, up until that point, most airplane engines needed to be tinkered with and torn down at laughingly short intervals. A few good weeks of barnstorming could mean it was time for a pilot to quit for months while his engine was rebuilt.

I spend a lot of my time installing and flying behind the latest in top end experimental avionics - full touch screen EFISs, advanced...

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...

With a marathon fight of nearly four hours to gather cruise performance data (take advantage of the smooth air when you can get it!),...

No airplane is perfect right out of the box--that is, really, why we test them isn't it? Of course, there are lots of kits...

Continuing the theme of flight testing--one of the hardest things for a builder/pilot to do, especially when their airplane is new and they are...

Well, we have a plan for getting our Tundra back into the air, and I think it is a good one--partly because we think...

My AirVenture NOTAM booklet came fairly late this year, despite having ordered it the day it was available. Not to worry--I downloaded the document...

Trying to keep number of family airplanes flying and up to date is never easy, and since one or two fly a couple of...

Drilling out rivets can seem like a step backwards for any builder, but you can also look at it from another direction and realize that if you need to do it, you NEED to do it--and therefore, it is a step forward towards completion, or in this case, in the direction of finishing a repair.