Twice the Angst and What a Cost!
Several months back, I was all CAVU regarding my partnership with an old friend in a puddle-jumping Cessna. But as I scribbled those happy...
What You Don’t Need to Know Can Hurt You
Building an airplane should be mostly fun, sometimes challenging, and infinitely rewarding, but confidence killers lurk everywhere. For instance, peruse metal-forming websites and textbooks...
Get-there-itis
Reading the title of this column, you probably think the topic is about weather and scud-running…and you'd be wrong (mostly). As we leave winter...
In Case You Missed It
My Home Airport
Recently I walked into Van’s Aircraft and kissed the cutest engineer I could find....
Testing, Testing, Can You Hear Me Yet?
We’ve come a long way from the Narco Omnigator (vintage 1958 or so) to...