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Best Practices – Solid Rivets
...made from metal. The builders of these aircraft will have literally thousands of rivets to drive, buck, replace, and in many instances pull. Even if you’re not building a metal...
Building the Bearhawk LSA
...wing is installed. As you might remember from the last exciting episode, the Pudding River Bearhawk crew was closing in—however slowly—on completing their Bearhawk LSA. Well…remember how Charles Schultz’s cartoon...
Super Legend HP
...unique to the Carbon Cub, LSA and kit. The X-340s used in other LSAs, including the Super Legend HP, are slightly different and are a bit heavier, lacking the lightened...
Just Call Him Mr. Pylon
...available from Aircraft Spruce. (Photo by FlugKerl2 [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons) A Building Fiend But first there was Chief Oshkosh. This airplane was not the bumbling effort of...
Parts Off, Parts On!
When Lycoming Engines had to respond to the downturn in general aviation production in the 1980s, it devoted more of its business to rebuilding, overhauling, and zero-timing engines for customers....
Panels in Days, Not Months
If you are planning a building project, building now, or have been flying your plane more than a few years, you are probably thinking ahead about a new instrument panel....
Pedal Power
...building process brought me back to building my Cozy, and it gave me a sense of accomplishment every step of the way. The plans are very complete and outline everything...
Ask the DAR
...by the kit manufacturer. Three, Part 21.191(i)(3). This is an aircraft that was previously certificated as an SLSA (21.190) and is being re-certificated in the Experimental category (ELSA). Initially there...
Checkpoints
...good portion of time was even spent constructing jigs prior to actually building airplane parts and structures. Contrast that with today’s kits that never require any welding, have all of...
Editor’s Log
...sighted person trying to describe color to one who has never had the use of their eyes—the vocabulary simply isn’t there. Building a pedal plane is a great way to...
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The Kitchen Window
BD-4 builder Steven Mahoney commandeers the family's four-burner kitchen appliance to complete a mod for his airplane, and lives to tell the tale.