Tag: flight test tools

Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook takes the temperature of the homebuilt industry at the first big fly-in of the season.

Fed up with the restrictions of being able to land on water only, builder Mervin Zinck came up with a design to add retractable gear to his floats. By Don Ledger.

Plunge into drilling accurate holes for fasteners in mating parts.

Some builders of Experimental/Amateur-Built aircraft are builders in name only, deferring primary construction of the aircraft to the pros. So concluded the FAA, which is determined to clamp down on those who would flout the 51% rules. What does it mean to regular homebuilders? Those who are building now will be unaffected, but for future builders, the FAAs guidance revisions could be significant.