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The Dawn Patrol
...with my smoke system laying out a trail behind us. It was swell. This is what building and flying WW-I replicas is all about. Marvin Berk’s SPAD XIII replica. Destination...
All About Avionics
...before your first flight. There is a reason professionally built panels look good. But even if you’re building your own, attention to detail and high standards will create an attractive...
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....
Engine Update
...Lionel D’Hondt in the 1970s and has been building race engines since then, primarily for road-rally racing such as the famous and grueling Paris-to-Dakar off-road endurance race. In the late...
Wind Tunnel
...or cord to the trailing edge. Usually this works well, but not always. A good friend attempted to reduce the aileron forces on his aerobatic biplane by building a new...
Something to Do
...alloyed with an engineer’s pragmatism, of building an airplane. “When you retire from work, you need something to do,” he said, his lanky frame comfortably perched on a tall stool...
Light Stuff
...of aircraft combined. Also, building airplanes normally takes a lot more time than building aircraft in other categories. This is partly because of their wings, which typically include a multitude...
2012 Alternative Engine Buyer’s Guide
...fly-ins or tradeshows. Instead, it concentrates on engine building and on offering machine shop facilities that can handle every operation necessary to remanufacture engines to new specifications. Real World Solutions...
Virus Motorglider
...(next to Italy at the northern end of the Adriatic Sea), where Ivo Boscarol and Bojan Sajovic were building radio-control airplanes in the 1980s and branched out into trikes. One...
Build It Better: When 1+1 Does Not Equal 2
...is highly dependent on the intended use of the aircraft that we are building or choosing to fly. For day/VFR operations, it is easy to back up almost all of...
In Case You Missed It
Bad Indication or a Real Problem?
How many of us have seen an unusual engine temp/parameter indication and wondered if...
Wind Tunnel
Flight testing for longitudinal stability problems continues this month as columnist Barnaby Wainfan details tests for stick force as related to trim and stick-free stability of an aircraft. The object is to gather data and analyze it to see if the hypotheses about the nature of the problem hold up under scrutiny.