Tag: fasteners

Have you checked your fuel system for leaks lately? Turns out there's a good reason to periodically conduct a thorough investigation. Incipient leaks may go undetected. Worse, when the O-ring on the fuel-selector valve goes bad, it could allow air into the system, which means your engine could misbehave at a most inconvenient time. Often, this malady is difficult to diagnose and the assumption is that the fuel selector is OK when it is not.

Surviving the unplanned pitch trim loop. By Sid Mayeux.

Differential compression test.

Learned colleague Paul Dye recently wrote about the time-limited nature of aviation hardware. That...