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Hands On: Spray Painting
...is a great place to learn how to paint, so don’t lose sleep over it. The Loehle system was set up for novice painters as well as pros. The first...
Tapping Heads
...an ideal way to maintain vertical alignment with the drilled hole. Its effective and accurate but horribly slow. Clearly the pros are not doing it this way, so lets try...
Letters
...call it 1000 hours. Well, the guys building in 500 hours were pros. Also, its our recommendation that builders look at the methods of construction and talk to other builders...
Engine Beat
...and a surprising number of specialized tools. It’s true that you can replace parts of the magneto on your own workbench, but leaving it to the pros will ensure everything...
Aero ‘lectrics
...of the program. Cadvance This is pretty much the same thing as Draftsight but with the following differences. Pros: It can do 3D drawings and some programming in Basic to...
The Latest Edition: Kit Airplane Construction, by Ron Wanttaja
...begins with the fundamentals of building an airplane and examines the pros and cons of homebuilts compared to purchasing a factory-built aircraft. Following that introduction, Wanttaja leads the reader through...
Glasair Sportsman: 360 vs. 390
...have the choice of a 180-HP IO-360 or the beefier IO-390. Which engine is best? It depends? In this video, Kitplanes Magazine editor Marc Cook analyzes the pros and cons....
RANS S-20 LSM
...S-20 LSM is available as a fully completed, ready-to-fly S-LSA or as a kit intended for Experimental amateur-built status. No E-LSA version is being offered or planned. As for pros...
Promise Fulfilled
...impressive first year effort by the two aviation pros. Fifth and sixth places went to Thunder Mustangs. Fifth was earned by Peter Balmer of Interlaken, Switzerland at 337 mph; sixth...
Military Oxygen
...second stage as part of the worn equipment—and this has pros and cons. While incredibly compact and light, it is also not as controllable. It is designed as a pressure-demand...
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The Fly As You Go Plan
Learned colleague Paul Dye recently wrote about the time-limited nature of aviation hardware. That...
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Stein Bruch explains how bringing smart phones and tablets, with a bevy of aviation apps, into the cockpit have helped him become a better—and safer—pilot.