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The Airplane Van Didnt Want to Build
...percentage of the completed airplane) a QuickBuild customer could reduce building time by something close to 50%. Over 2500 Completions More than 2500 RV-6 and RV-6As have flown in 40...
The Oldest Flying RV-6
...once I started building. You know, building an RV in those days was really different than today. We spent 2500 shop-hours in the build. In 2007, my son and I...
The RV-6 Adventure
...that time the Rutan designs were very popular, and I had a friend who was building a Long-EZ. That is an impressive airplane that is optimized for speed and efficiency,...
Tips From the New Guy
For sale, going a different route. The six most-feared words in Experimental aircraft building are: For sale, going a different route. I made a lot of mistakes and changes costing...
Best Practices – Hand Tools
...use of hand tools as the beginning of best practices. Safety Aircraft building often involves lots of drilling, grinding, cutting, and shaping of metal and composite materials. In addition, there...
RV-6 Photography
...photograph RVs at its annual homecoming event for builders. That led to Ed building his own RV-6. Although Ed has photographed countless RVs, ironically, he never shot air-to-air photos of...
Back to School
...hours of building for every 10 hours designing in order to get an hour testing, then flight test becomes, like air-to-air combat, a skill that is as intricate as it...
Ask the DAR
...Ann, have built seven amateur-built airplanes including two ultralight types, a Moni Motorglider, a Dragonfly Mk2, two RV-6s and a Zenair CH 601HDS. They are currently building a scratch-built biplane....
Making Dreams Come True
First liftoff of the Dream Tundra flown (Photo: Georgia Kinninger) When the Homebuilding movement began in earnest (I’m not talking about all the flying machines built in barns in the...
The Dawn Patrol
...explained the grin. Me, I was thinking back to the past 29 years I’ve been flying my nimble little Graham Lee Nieuport 11 fighter. Who could have imagined how building...
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Manufacturing Considerations
The designer must consider all three factors: Mission, Manufacturing and Marketing.
Three to Get Ready
"…Now go cat, go…But don't you…Step on my Blue Suede Shoes." Elvis was singing...
Droning About the Future
Elsewhere in this issue, we’ve taken a few pages to consider the future of...