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When new aircraft from two very different designers, in this case Randy Schlitter and Richard VanGrunsven, surface with considerable similarities, consensus about basic design tenets must be blowing in the wind. Certainly Light Sport regs do constrain performance considerations, but human factors are more up for grabs, and that’s where one or another design can truly shine; by Marc Cook.

It looks almost finished, but there’s still much to do before the jet is ready to fly.

A near-zero-effort way to remove the protective blue plastic film from large sheets of aluminum.

As I start this article, we are between Baker, Nevada, and Hinckley, Utah, which...