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[Credit: Lisa Turner]

Last Bits

Lisa Turner - 1
Aircraft control surface designs may include counterweights to offset and eliminate flutter. The counterweights should not be eliminated to save weight. [Credit: Kitplanes Archive]

Weight and Flutter

Andrew Robinson - 1
The original Corben Baby Ace designed by Orland “Ace” Corben in 1929. [Credit: Wikimedia Commons]

Vintage Homebuilts: The Big Three

Randall Brink - 1
The discomfort of wearing prescription- or sunglasses under an ANR headset is eliminated with Flying Eyes. [Credit: Flying Eyes]

Eyes Forward

Randall Brink - 0
Left to right, shiny new bulkheads, wooden form blocks, and old bulkheads. [Credit Tinley Ong]

Second Chance Six

Tenley Ong - 0
[Credit: LeRoy Cook]

Logging Time

LeRoy Cook - 2
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In Case You Missed It

Buying Used: The Pulsar

Lisa Turner - 16
A popular homebuilt from the 1990s remains viable, if somewhat rare, today.

Ski Patrol

Tom Simko - 4
RANS S-7S builder Tom Simko details how his desire to fly year-round in snow country was satisfied (and then some) by installing Datum wheel skis.

The Dawn Patrol

Dick Starks - 0
Fun with the Hun in the sun.

Ask the DAR

Mel Asberry - 0
Registration and the Repairman’s Certificate.
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