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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.

Now… With Bikes!

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I've done this before, last year when I flew the new Murphy Radical, so it wasn't completely an unknown feeling when I lifted off...

Always More to Learn

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I love solving problems--it is just hard to find the time to work on the little ones. I have been wiring avionics for more...

Foolin’ Around with Design and Fabrication

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It's a quiet week between Christmas and New Year's, since my outstanding magazine staff guys got ahead of the schedule and made it that...

The Tundra in Winter

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Flying through the holiday season has its challenges - climatically, winter is blowing in and that means fast-moving systems with lots of cold. In...

Applied Research – the Search Process

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I have always found that the success in a highly technical endeavor that encompasses a vast sea of knowledge is not about memorizing everything...

Spars-The Heart of the Wing

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All about spars, part 1.

Editor’s Log

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Power to the people!

Hi-Tech Tech Counseling

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I had a wonderful flight on a recent cool Saturday morning out into the middle of Nevada - Winnemucca, Nevada, to be precise. Cold...

It Takes a Village

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  ...And every village needs an idiot. Or at least someone who doesn't know something. The best thing though - is the village can come...

Super Duty!

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Zenith takes the STOL CH 750 up a notch.

In Case You Missed It

Second Chance Six

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Part 11: Starting to wire my Advanced Flight Systems panel, installing a new fuel selector and more!

Alternative Energies

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They may be largely unknown today, but two French brothers were among those exploring battery-powered flight in the 1880s. By Dean Sigler.

Datalink Weather: Long-Term Exposure

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Marc Cook relates his experience, more than four years' worth, with XM-sourced inflight weather.

Changing a Perfectly Good Airplane

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Designing and building a modified RANS S-9, part 2. By Michael Ryer and John Wells.