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Eric Stewart is designing and building the SR-1, a speed plane for setting records in the FAI c-1a/0 category (takeoff weight less than 661 pounds, including pilot and fuel). You can see more at facebook.com/TheSR1Project, including additional photos and videos of the subjects in this series of articles.

Building a Composite Fuel Tank

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How to keep it lightweight and leak-free.

Custom Tools for Rod End Installation and Alignment

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Tightening rod end bearings is easy when you make the right tools.

Custom Composite Inspection Panels

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How to add panels to already-molded skins.

Composite Sheared Wingtips

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A step-by-step process to make DIY molds for sheared wingtips.

On the Edge

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Hot-rodding the venerable Rotax four-strokes.

Build Your Own Steel Shop Table

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It’s a great alternative to wood.

Shining a Light on DarkAero

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Ryley, Keegan and River Karl provide a behind-the-scenes view of the DarkAero 1.

DarkAero Keeps It Light

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The Karl brothers bring a new carbon fiber speedster to market.

Testing, Testing!

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Part 3: Testing components and assemblies.

Testing, Testing!

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Part 2: Determining Material Properties

In Case You Missed It

Ask the DAR

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DAR Mel Asberry answers questions about when you need A&P signoff, re-certifying an airplane to make it an LSA (hint: cant be done) and pre-registration of an Experimental.

Product Review: PS Engineering PMA5000EX

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At its heart, the PMA5000EX is a four-place stereo intercom in an audio panel that supports two each of coms, navs, switching aux inputs, music inputs plus having five unswitched aux inputs and a front-panel input for a music source or cell. By Marc Cook.

Letters

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WD-40Dave Prizio refers to WD-40 as a lubricant in his article about cables and...

Straight and Narrow

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Wheel alignment 101.