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Bob Hadley

Bob Hadley
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Bob Hadley is the R&D manager for a California-based consumer products company. He holds a Sport Pilot certificate and a Light-Sport Repairman certificate with inspection authorization for his Jabiru J250-SP.

Home Shop Machinist

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Cure for the common threadache.

Basic Edge Treatments and Deburring

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Basic edge treatments and deburring.

To Launch a Light Sport-Redux

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To launch a Light Sport-redux.

Home Shop Machinist

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Countersinks.

Fun With Fly Cutters

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Did you ever wonder what kind of tool makes those graceful machine marks on factory-made brackets and manifolds?

Home Shop Machinist

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Titanium-when and where to use it and how to machine it.

Home Shop Machinist

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Totally tubular: Tips for tube notching.

Home Shop Machinist

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Tapping your inner thread.

Bandsaws—Cutting Through the Clutter

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Bandsaws—cutting through the clutter.

Home Shop Machinist

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The lathey guy’s guide to work holding.

In Case You Missed It

Super Legend Cub

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American Legends new Super Legend is almost a clone of the ever-popular Super Cub-the company even used Pipers original drawings for some of the Legends parts. The result: a well-balanced, easy-to-fly airplane, with a kit version to be released in 2013. By Paul Bertorelli.

Fast Squeeze

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Todd Rudberg’s RV-8 helps usher in a modern era of nitrous-oxide-assisted sport planes.

Alternative Energies

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A new electric ultralight motorglider expands the boundaries of its category—and its plans can be downloaded free. By Dean Sigler.
GlaStar in flight

Return to Flight

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A GlaStar’s Titan IO-340’s tale of tweaks and temptations.