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Tips for Installing Your Props Properly
As a builder, you will have installed and removed your airplane’s propeller-assuming you’re not building a jet, of course-several times before first flight. And yet you should not let this...
Flight Review: Practical Glass
...is a humble, hard-working guy. His hangar at San Carlos (California) Airport is filled with the ever-growing airframe of a Sportsman 2+2 that he’s been building. Pilots familiar with the...
Flight Review: The Rand KR-2
...fun and fast to fly. Owner Allen Buzza spent 14 years building his KR-2. Rand was a professional flight-test engineer with the Douglas Aircraft Company, who had previously been a...
Around the Patch
...our own avionics guy, Stein Bruch, is building a fourth; two of the original three are still flying. With a Pratt & Whitney R-985 (450 horsepower) and weighing 3600 pounds...
The Dawn Patrol
...it depended on many factors, and the biggest one was trying to avoid and fight builders burnout. That made me think back to when we were building some of the...
Free Flight
There are no two ways about it: Building airplanes takes time. More time per task than is obvious when the project is taken at face value. I worked efficiently (and...
Flight Review: Lockwood Super Drifter
...that he flies as a Sport Pilot. His current building project is a RANS S-19. As the computer people say, what you see is what you get. Don’t need many...
All About Avionics: Flight-Control Systems
...concerned is as vital as ever, despite some defections. Blue Mountain Avionics and Navaid Devices have left the building, and because the demand for certified autopilots from Century and S-Tec...
Completions
...YouTube channel. Parker, Arizona email: casuttonaz@hotmail.com www.youtube.com/user/trilanderted Bob Camachos RV-9A After almost three years of part-time building, I first flew my unpainted RV-9A (QB) in February 2009. It has a...
Around the Patch
...relied on his years of experience building engines for racing, where elevated compression ratios are the norm, to hazard a guess. No, I really don’t think itll like [94UL]. For...
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Alternative Energies
Solar-powered aircraft may have some inherent limits, but they are also marvels of engineering that constantly push the boundaries of what’s possible. By Dean Sigler.
Champions
We talk with Grand Champion builders about their experiences building some of the finest airplanes in the world.
Electronic Ignitions
As electronic ignitions become more popular, some homebuilders will want to consider making the switch (especially given the potential savings in fuel costs). Tom Wilson provides an overview of the marketplace and offers a “cost-benefit” analysis.
Light Stuff
The Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association presented its 16th annual Presidents Award to Rotaxs Eric Tucker at Oshkosh/AirVenture this year. Tuckers history dovetails with LAMAs history, and each will play a significant role in the growing Light Sport Aircraft market; by Dave Martin.