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The Process
...soon, doesn’t it? But “The Process” still has a long way to go. There are two hundred holes in each surface—that’s four surfaces total (port and starboard, top and bottom)....
Homespun Router Table
...I also had the foresight to photograph the process. For budget-conscious or budget-crippled builders (you’re in good company; it’s said that during the Great Depression Steve Wittman lived on a...
Where’s the Best Place To Build?
...Living far from the airport is not detrimental toward the building process. In fact, when you’re comfortable in your own surroundings of tools and familiar accommodations, you will no doubt...
EFIS Roundup 2024
...include) autopilots, external IFR GPS navigators, ADS-B In, com radios, intercoms and transponders. And all are designed to encompass full engine monitoring, an extremely popular option in new builds, particularly...
Iterate, Modify and Fix
...and eliminated the rumble. Airplane design is inherently an iterative process. As we have already seen in our discussion of configuration layout, the airplane as finally built is virtually never...
Hurricane Helene Relief Effort with a Can-Do Attitude
...in even odder aircraft owned and flown by pilots who may have never flown a relief sortie was a challenge for the CAN group. Although CANs process was in place...
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
...center of the firewall and fabricate carbon fiber ducts to direct cooling air from the plenum to the cooler. In the process, he also had to design and fabricate the...
How To Bend Tubing Without a Tube Bender
If one were to think this 1940 textbook on aircraft maintenance by Brimm and Boggess would be useless in the year 2024, one would be wrong. In the process of...
Kitfox Speedster 916
...with generously sized cabins, but that aspect also takes a cut into performance and the result is likely to weigh more. Is any given design too slow? Just add horsepower,...
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