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The Dawn Patrol
...one of us totally embarrassing ourselves in front of the same crowd while landing, taking off or taxiing in. As I’ve mentioned, building our little WW-I replica aircraft opened a...
Wind Tunnel
...building their wings without the prescribed washout in an effort to make their airplanes faster. Ironically, in doing so, they not only hurt the stall characteristics of their airplanes, they...
Green Flight Challenge, The Winners
...to green aviation, and three rows of tents protected exhibitors and their displays from the rain that started mid-afternoon. At about 11 a.m., attendees were brought to Building 3, in...
The Ultimate Upgrade
As we know from the first two installments in this series, Wendell and Martha Solesbee are building a Lancair Evolution, an honest-to-goodness 300-knot luxury kit aircraft that will someday whisk...
Higher, Faster, Stronger
...learned over the last decade of building the kit to improve its performance and utility without running the engineering department’s budget deep into the red. The questions remain: Can it...
Learning to Weld
...are hard to overcome. In my hangar, you can literally hear the difference. My wife is a professional violinist whose teaching studio is directly above my airplane building (currently welding...
Ask the DAR
...and his wife, 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...
Completions
...of wing area), so it bounces around about like my Luscombe. It’s very fun to fly. Tullahoma, Tennessee Tim Delf’s Sky Jeep After 10 enjoyable years of on-and-off building, my...
Alternative Energies
...and twice the cost of the motor/controller/propeller drive combination. Students at Chartres’ IUT (the university’s technological institute) building a Demoichellec. With these innovators bringing electric flight to the masses (nothing...
Free Flight
...all aspects of aviation, including stick and rudder skills, honest self-evaluation of those skills, and (just as important) decisions made by the designer of the aircraft’s systems and the building...
In Case You Missed It
The Dawn Patrol
Dick and Sharon Starks and The Dawn Patrol make their annual, magical pilgrimage to AirVenture Oshkosh. Mix in a big, surly storm, the Wild Snorting Piglet, and an Air Force Brigadier General, and you've some something to write home about.