Strings Attached
There are times in building an airplane when you want to have some strings attached - particularly when it comes to lining things up....
Come Up With An Easier Way
The assembly manual might tell you to do something one way, but sometimes it's possible do do it better.
The Trick to Riblets
If you have built (or have attempted to build, or are looking forward to building…) an RV-style metal trim tab, you are probably wondering...
Hand to Hand with a Bending Board
You’d think that with a quick-build fuselage, the factory could have made a frame that matched.
Trimming a Tube Square
We’ve been fitting the canopy frame to the F1 Rocket project this week, and one of the tasks (after getting all the hoops properly...
Easy Servo Wiring Trick
If you are wiring up a typical Ray Allen trim servo, you know that the two “power” wires to the motor are both white.
Reverse Engineering Heated Seats
How to they make it “high” and “low” with just a single SPDT switch and SPST relay?
PolyGone – This Stuff Works!
I am usually disappointed when I turn to chemicals to try and ease the process of building or working on airplanes.
Just a Little Squeeze
The horizontal stabilizer on our F1 Rocket (like most RV-type aircraft) has a very thin profile—a symmetric airfoil with a finely pointed nose. Getting...
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What’s New
Cub Crafters introduces a Carbon Cub kit, a new study of LSAs may affect insurance rates, and AeroLEDs offers new LED anti-collision/landing lights; edited by Mary Bernard.
Another Alternator Gotcha
Well, it seems to be the season for alternator problems, as just this week...
Dakota Super 18
Unparalleled slow-speed handling characteristics set this Cub apart. By Bill Repucci.