Tom Wilson
Pumping avgas and waxing flight school airplanes got Tom into general aviation in 1973, but the lure of racing cars and motorcycles sent him down a motor journalism career heavy on engines and racing. Today he still writes for peanuts and flies for fun.
The View From HBC
It was morning at Home Built Camping at AirVenture and the distant rumbling of multiple round motors calls for attention, but as the peek...
You Had To Be Here
If the weather and our Experimentals were always perfect we'd get to our destinations on time, but would miss much along the way. Today's...
Stuck in Yankton Again (Yea!)
If you ever needed a weather magnet just throw a fly-in... as anyone headed to AirVenture today can tell you. With the rest of...
A Cautionary Tail
His Mong Sport was ready to fall apart, but there's no way Jeff Rose could have known it.
Largest Yet: Mojave Experimental Fly-In 2018
With 344 transient aircraft and 16 local operations logged by the tower, plus what might have been 100 airplanes on the ramp at any one time, the 2018 Mojave Experimental Fly-In April 21, 2018 certainly looked and felt like the most-attended MEFI in the event's six-year history.
In Case You Missed It
Anatomy of a Modification
Paul Dye takes readers through a rework of his RV-3's fuel system to illustrate why some mods are a sound choice.
Letters
Tungsten
In Eric Stewart's article, "Titans of Tungsten" , he mentioned using tungsten as a...
Around the Patch
The FAAs John Hickey and Frank Paskiewicz got an earful at the AirVenture forum assembled to illuminate proposed changes to the 51% rule. Although some of the comments ran far afield, many more homebuilders posed thoughtful and challenging questions in an effort to help them understand where they stand with regard to the new regulations; by Marc Cook.
Wind Tunnel
Flight testing for longitudinal stability problems continues this month as columnist Barnaby Wainfan details tests for stick force as related to trim and stick-free stability of an aircraft. The object is to gather data and analyze it to see if the hypotheses about the nature of the problem hold up under scrutiny.