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Flight Review: Van’s RV-14A
...Performance, Van’s engineers spec’d a fuel servo sized for an IO-540 to ensure it would not create a flow restriction. (A reminder here that engines are air pumps, primarily; the...
January 2021
On the cover: Paul Dye and Rollie VanDorn enjoy a flight in the 315-hp Bearhawk 5 prototype. Photographed near St. George, Utah, by Richard VanderMeulen. Table of contents The Big...
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...garage. A Sonex is held together with 10,000 stainless-steel pulled rivets. In theory, I could have riveted it together with a $9 manual rivet gun, but that would have led...
Makin’ PC Boards
...your own aircraft. This series of articles is going to give you those missing discussions of production rather than the theory and breadboard shots of how the circuits work. The...
ABC: Always Be Curious
One of these is protruding less than the others. Why? I’ve spent so much time at the nose of my GlaStar, what with the engine change and all, that I...
Mike and Laura Starkey’s RANS S-21: Part 8
Now that we have the engine hanging on the front of our RANS S-21 Outbound, it’s time to get things hooked up to make it run. We will start with...
Installing and Maintaining Your Pitot-Static System
...tube. Airplane washing provides a great opportunity to get water into the system if some care is not taken. In theory, water will drain out after washing without any special...
Scratching the Itch to Scratch Build
...but not a Spacewalker. The other branch of the family tree hangs a Rotec radial engine on the front and alters the structure to handle the new engine, lengthens and...
Avionics Troubleshooting 101
Common diagnostic tasks to consider when things stop working. To continue reading you must be a paid subscriber Subscribe Subscribe to Kitplanes KITPLANES – The Independent Voice for Homebuilt Aviation...
Troubleshooting 102: EFIS
...bonus, Garmin’s Team X and Dynon engineering both weighed in on what they hear on their tech support lines and read on the tech forums. The takeaway: Maintaining an EFIS...
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Engine Beat
Steve Ells explains the science of alternators, and offers some tips for understanding and troubleshooting problems with the system.
Free Flight
Expecting your avionics software to be free of bugs is unrealistic, but there is a way to avoid being bitten.