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The alternative to bending down as the propeller is pulled through the compression stroke is to keep the back straight and bend the knees slightly, stepping away in a crouch. [Credit: LeRoy Cook]

Manual Starting Methods

LeRoy Cook - May 11, 2026 1

In Case You Missed It

All-moving Tails

Barnaby Wainfan - May 6, 2015 1

All-moving tails.

Homebuilt Aircraft Directory 2022

Marc Cook - October 31, 2021 7

Here we are again with our annual “directory” of homebuilt aircraft that are available...

Ask the DAR

Mel Asberry - March 17, 2011 0

We begin a short series that looks at the particulars of a homebuilt aircrafts operating limitations. Have you read yours?

Archive: January 1988

Kitplanes - May 6, 2020 1

Jim Bede’s BD-5 had, by the late 1980s, still managed to hang onto its...