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Hot or Not?Since it's blazing hot here on the Great Plains, I was excited to see the September issue when I opened the mailbox....
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Old-Timer, New Ideas I would like to offer a comment on Stein Bruch's article "All About Avionics," which appeared in the August 2011...
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Searching for Bear Metal After an absence of many years, I'm starting to fly again and am looking to buy a homebuilt, already...
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The Thrill Is Gone...Somewhat I love KITPLANES magazine and haven't missed an issue in the past 15 years. Being a builder of one...
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Belted's Take After reading "The State of Auto Conversions" article in the May issue of KITPLANES, I feel I must respond. Upon reading...
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Lam Best Many of us know portable radios work poorly in many aircraft. But never before have I seen the reasons behind it...
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Cub for the Linemen
In your Cub Comparison story (March 2011), the author mentioned that he had trouble shoehorning his 6-foot-3 frame into planes, and...
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Gear HeadIn the excellent Wittman W10 Tailwind article in the January 2011 issue, Marc Cook states that the Wittman gear landing-gear (which he defines...
In Case You Missed It
Static Port Location and Altitude Calibration
Often a challenge, accuracy depends on three things: location, location, location.
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Sharing with OthersWhat a ride we got reading Michael Robinson's "Aeronautical Decision Making" ....
Aero ‘lectrics
Its important to understand the fundamentals before you can be conversant in electrical theory, so lets revisit Georg Simon Ohm and James Watt to see how their laws factor in to aircraft applications.
Don’t Get Bent Out of Shape With These Pliers
As a builder of a metal aircraft kit, you no doubt have heard the...