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Taking Care of Your Metal Prop
...your prop. Try to prevent nicks and gouges by first building your plane with adequate prop clearance-at least nine inches from tip to ground when the plane is level. Less...
Preparing for Flight Test Unknowns
...but most sincerely proficient (in most likely a high-wing Cessna). However, I’m not building a Cessna. My logic, my friends’ experiences, and my insurer convinced me I need transition training...
Letters
...There are many variables that go into building our annual Buyer’s Guide, and we are trying hard to find a mix that satisfies most of our readers’ needs. We’re glad...
Building Before Buying
...program’s auto dimension feature. When building the laser-cut kit, he said, “Make no assumptions when building the plane; if you have to compute a dimension, you’re making it harder than...
Exhausting!
...hard-won horsepower. In the early days of homebuilding, most exhaust systems were custom-made by the aircraft builder, or the aircraft cowling was built around a system taken from a certified...
Insurance And Training
...building. If you just spent the last five years building your pride and joy, and haven’t flown during that time, your pilot skills are probably a bit rusty. Imagine what...
One Week Wonder
...on attendance for the days they flew. The One Week Wonder brought the focus for EAA back to homebuilding this summer and served as a highlight in a week that...
Full of Hot Air
...Building a Balloon I’ve been building and flying hot-air balloons for 25+ years, having developed and built radio-controlled scale-model hot-air balloons in college, which led to a job in a...
Mojave Gang MoVenture
...to work on Stearmans and T6s. When I was in engineering school, I was working summers building radial engines, and it was just about the coolest thing I had ever...
Still More Mistral Magic
...needed. All things considered, 8.5 years of building resulted in a very satisfying aircraft to fly—but it is an aircraft, and you never take any aircraft for granted. Keep your...
In Case You Missed It
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A Futuristic Anachronism
Ultimate experimenter Paul Lipps has used his own homebuilt, a Lancair 320, as a test bed for his many innovations, which include reflexed flaps, an ultra-long pitot tube for more accurate readings, a solar-powered fan for the cockpit, a cowl scoop for ultra cooling of the magneto, extremely close clearances between the spinner and the prop, and a one-of-a-kind propeller.
What’s New
MGL extends its warranty, Grand Rapids introduces the Sport SX EFIS, Vertical Power has a new system, and more. Edited by Mary Bernard.
