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Like some sort of verbal restricted area, certain subjects are such tropes in aviation scribbling that I steer around them like they were cumulonimbus....

I bucked the first rivet on my Van’s RV-10 project in October 2007. Barrett Precision Engines built my engine from a core, a decision...

We are seeing more talk of people rebuilding cores found in barns or the back of hangars.

For an engine long on the verge of viability but never quite making it over the threshold, the DeltaHawk is looking ever more real....

There’s no reason to participate in the hobby—for that matter, any hobby—unless it’s underpinned by fun.

Last time we met, the question was if the engines of the future had already arrived. This time I’d like to turn around and...

You might think that a long-running proposal to streamline certification and greatly expand (and make far more usable) LSA and sport pilot rules would have the industry locking arm, raising voices in song and, therefore, on a clear path to success. You might, but you’d be wrong.

Engines, you see, need frequent activity. When they sit, they corrode.

It had been a long, cold night.

For ages one of the most common laments in aviation is we’re still flying around behind ancient engines. LyConsaurs they’re called, and when in...