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Paul Dye

Paul Dye
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Paul Dye, KITPLANES® Editor at Large, retired as a Lead Flight Director for NASA’s Human Space Flight program, with 50 years of aerospace experience on everything from Cubs to the Space Shuttle. An avid homebuilder, he began flying and working on airplanes as a teen and has experience with a wide range of construction techniques and materials. He flies an RV-8 and SubSonex jet that he built, an RV-3 that he built with his pilot wife, as well as a Dream Tundra and an electric Xenos motorglider they completed. Currently, they are building an F1 Rocket. A commercially licensed pilot, he has logged over 6000 hours in many different types of aircraft and is an A&P, FAA DAR, EAA Tech Counselor and Flight Advisor; he was formerly a member of the Homebuilder’s Council. He consults and collaborates in aerospace operations and flight-testing projects across the country.

Getting Fuelish

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One of the interesting things about the Subsonex kit is that it is easy to skip around from one task to another as you're...

Engine Day!

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I know that "Kneeboard Notes" is supposed to be about flying as well as building--but winter weather seems to have settled into our little...

Oh Nuts!

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Well actually... "Oh nut!" What do you do when you drop a nut inside a fuel tank with a hole too small to get...

A Little of This, a Little of That

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One of the nice things about having all of the sub-kits and materials necessary to build an airplane in your shop at once is...

Easy Hole Spacing

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One of the curses of modern CAD technology is that designers can draw something up, then have the computer dimension it for them on...

Editor’s Log

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The honor system.

And we're off!

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Yes--the new kit is here! Our Subsonex project got underway just this weekend, starting with a complete inventory (of a very complete kit). With...

Checking In – Deland, Florida

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The Deland Sport Aviation Showcase wraps up our show attendance for this year, and as I leave Florida, I can think back on a...

2019 Homebuilt Aircraft Directory

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So many airplanes, so little time: over 1000 aircraft to choose from. Also learn how 10 of our regular contributors chose their own experimental aircraft. Introduction Directory compiled by Omar Filipovic.

Bond…Click Bond

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Building a better nut plate.

In Case You Missed It

Turbine Temptation: Building the Airframe

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Rule number one for building the SubSonex: Build from the inside out. Rule number...

Scratching the Itch to Scratch Build

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Getting started on a Spacewalker II.

Checkpoints

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Panel upgrades.

Ask the DAR

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Major restoration of a 34-year-old Experimental, fabricating an engine from raw materials.