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The Value of a Mentor, and Mentoring
Challenging aspects of building won’t slow your progress when a mentor can share their experience with you. If you have built or are almost finished building a kit aircraft, you...
Eating the Elephant—Part 2
...hard, because I still don’t like it after all the time I’ve spent in the shop. If you’re building an airplane from a mature, well-proven kit with excellent instructions and...
Van’s Aircraft 2025 First Quarter Update
...to refining existing kits and instructions based on customer feedback. Efforts focus on optimizing packaging methods, enhancing instruction clarity, and streamlining the building process. Customer service remains a priority, with...
Gelato Aids Aircraft Construction
...most mundane and obvious things we have around the house suddenly become a necessity in a busy hangar where aircraft building is taking place. This is just what happened in...
Final Flight
...slowly started building up. Not only did she not want to fly the airplane, but she didn’t want to talk about it, think about it, see it or in general...
Close Quarters Fuel Pump
My friend’s fuel pump installation showed me that a normal elbow wasn’t going to fit. When you’re building an airplane that requires lots of “custom work”—one that comes from an...
A Good Decision
...was showing a few splotches of green, which could mean that there were building cumulus or just a few spots of virga still dropping from the previous day’s dissipating clouds....
Evolved Composites
...town, and away from the airport, lie JMB’s original factory buildings. These are repurposed Communist-era structures, fully outfitted for each stage of composite aircraft production. These buildings are much rougher...
Building the 750SD XTREME: Part 15
One of the most common questions I get: What is the difference between the Zenith 750 Super Duty and the 750 Super Duty Xtreme (SDX) I’m building? Basically: What makes...
Where Do Airplane Parts Come From?
...Huxley Hovermobile because a bird aggressively introduced itself to its leading edge. Horse Shows and Lightning Strikes Homebuilding is not big business. The kit aircraft industry relies on—nay, requires—suppliers both...
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Making Peace with the Jabiru Engine
Keep it cool: That’s the secret to success with the Jabiru engine, which will reward your efforts by being a simple, powerful and smooth-running powerplant. Dave Prizio offers some suggestions for Jabiru care.
Around the Patch
Have you checked your fuel system for leaks lately? Turns out there's a good reason to periodically conduct a thorough investigation. Incipient leaks may go undetected. Worse, when the O-ring on the fuel-selector valve goes bad, it could allow air into the system, which means your engine could misbehave at a most inconvenient time. Often, this malady is difficult to diagnose and the assumption is that the fuel selector is OK when it is not.
Alternative Engines and the Cult of Personality
Marc Cook digs into the challenging world of automotive conversions, reporting on the converts who learned how to build these engines at the West Coast Corvair College.
