Alpaero

Repairing damaged sheet metal. By Katie Bosman.

This article covers what you should have learned in your high school shop class, but didn't, and more. It discusses safety glasses, proper treatment of chisels, gloves, jewelry, shop coats, hand tools, urban myths, safe shoes, hardware, biomechanics, capturing wayward chips, machinery placement in the shop, air-powered tools, cleanup, pneumatic cutting tools, and other common sense advice; by Bob Fritz.

A true head-to-head comparison with production aircraft is difficult to achieve.

The RV series has an excellent safety record.