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All Over the Map
When the FAA inspector or DAR (Designated Airworthiness Representative) arrives to award you your airworthiness certificate, it’s likely that everything will go smoothly, right? After all, you’ve followed all the...
Where’s the Best Place To Build?
...and the fuselage all on the trailer at the same time! Everyone with a home shop area or garage can participate in the excitement of building an Experimental kit airplane....
Common In-Flight Failures, Part 2
...the cockpit. After leveling off I was presented with a rapidly climbing oil temperature indication. After I made a turn back to the airport, I did a rapid sweep of...
Venturing the Cup
...into the haze to hopefully pick out the different color patch signifying the next flugplatz. Another rapid realization was how busy it is commanding one of these hot rods in...
Flapjacks and Fly-Ins
...the event to meet the community (above right). One of the most enjoyable and useful “tools” available to anyone considering building or buying an Experimental aircraft, or even any general...
EFIS Roundup 2024
...the mainstream EFIS offerings come from familiar companies, including Advanced Flight Systems, Dynon Avionics, Garmin, GRT (who you may think of as Grand Rapids) and MGL Avionics. Most of these...
Iterate, Modify and Fix
...as the design progresses. The first rounds of design iteration and modification should concentrate on things that will be difficult or impossible to change once the aircraft is built and...
Hurricane Helene Relief Effort with a Can-Do Attitude
...weighing and loading those supplies into CAN member’s aircraft, many of which were Experimental/Amateur-Built aircraft. Pickens County, SC, deputies help load the author’s Van’s RV-9. How much can you safely...
Building a Composite Fuel Tank
I originally designed my SR-1 race plane with a single wing tank. I subsequently decided to add a header tank for several reasons. First and foremost, the wing tank is...
Pursuing Perfection
...with Evoke Aircraft Design out of Gadsden, Alabama. Minya, who has a great flair for design, surveyed hundreds of aircraft paint schemes at Oshkosh and Sun ’n Fun. Wanting to...
In Case You Missed It
Aero ‘lectrics
Repairing a malfunctioning headset may be not only inexpensive, but completely doable.
Design Process: Wingtips
In our study of wing design, we have progressed from the inner portion and...
Avionics Special: Surfing the Rapids
Marc Cooks installation of Grand Rapids Technologies Horizon HX synthetic vision EFIS is darned near plug-and-play, and works beautifully.