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Sitting Up Front Again
...equipment. Our emphasis is on the technical knowledge of building and owning these intensely individual and useful aircraft, along with conveying the experience of flying them. One huge advantage I...
FISK Arrival Now Included in Garmin Navigation Database
If you’ve been manually building your own arrival into Oshkosh via Lat/Lon coordinates and you have a Garmin avionics, you’re in luck because the FISK arrival is now a selectable...
Eating the Elephant—Part 5
...project that eventually gets sold. Let’s be clear—the goal of building as well as you can is admirable and should be rewarded. Building a solid, safe airplane isn’t the high...
Building a Custom Engine Mount
The SR-1 race plane is a one-off design and therefore requires a custom engine mount. The engine, an EP912STi from Edge Performance (see my article “On the Edge” in the...
Chris Tena Mini-Coupe
...Several designers in the early ’70s were experimenting with building VW-powered aircraft out of aluminum, and one can probably view the Chris Tena Mini-Coupe as the ancestor to the Sonex....
Taking a Shine To 6061-T6 – Part 1
...know you’ll be polishing them, and the skins are easier to polish flat and fully supported on a workbench. When I began building my Sonex I didn’t know I’d be...
The Hummingbird Airworthiness Inspection
...believer that you can’t ever have too many eyes on an aircraft. Ever. So, for those of you who are building, I am going to walk you through the process....
Eating the Elephant—Part 4
...my office, I spend as much time shopping for hardware and components as I do designing electrical and fuel systems. There is much more to building than just building. So...
Home-Rolled XCub
...as a kit that can be shipped to your home, workshop, or garage for building as an E/A-B aircraft. For the many of us who grew up flying traditional Piper...
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