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The Straight Cut
...teeth marks in the cut made by the aviation snips (right). Building a metal aircraft? You’re probably going to be cutting a bunch of sheet metal parts from time to...
Shopping for Batteries
...surviving the test of build time: “While building the aircraft, I bought the battery to provide dimensions for the battery box and mounting. During that time (several years), I regularly...
Slack Time – Part 2
...making parts for several small projects, including a special tool for inserting the long hinge pins that holds the wingtips on the eXenos (more about that tool another time). We...
Solder It Up
...The pin assembly completed. Wow, enough of solder. Let’s start building stuff next month. Until then…Stay tuned… *Lest you consider this an obscenity, it comes from the early railroad days...
Glass Blowing for Wing Lights
...a fun project and I even learned a new skill. Two Flyleds kits. The switch with the attached wigwag module (upper right corner) is sold separately. Building the Wing Light...
Slack Time – Part 1
...said, a strange winter! So what about keeping busy in the shop? Well, our shop work is in transition. We managed to move the eXenos project into a neighbor’s hangar...
The eXenos Takes Wing!
...eXenos is fairly unique in the homebuilding world, as not that many Xenos airframes have been built , and this is only the second one to fly with DeVault’s electric...
Night Flight
...over mountainous terrain or at night. I personally choose to not fly all three at once and am quite selective on combining even two. Building for Night Flight Unless your...
Thunder Struck
...Struggling to decide between splinters, razor-sharp burrs or itchy forearms, Fred decided to call his uncle, who was building Lancairs in his barn in Pennsylvania, for some advice. “You’re probably...
Archive: June 2013
...first time we were fully under the influence of one Paul Dye. “While I was at NASA, I did some pretty futuristic things—launching humans into space, building a space station,...
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All About Avionics
Having worked with a variety of products from various manufacturers, author Stein Bruch has a lot of wisdom on the ins and outs of electronic flight instrument systems (EFISes) for homebuilts. He dispenses those smarts here, and offers tips on what to consider when making this important avionics decision, including such items as compatibility, reliability, value and ease of installation.
