Building the Affordaplane, Part 2

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From a construction standpoint this ultralight design is quite unusual in some ways and very traditional in others.

Rounding a Hole

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Cut large holes in thin material freehand.

America the Beautiful

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Flying Rosie “from sea to shining sea.”

Bending Your Brain

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Humans are amazingly adaptable but sometimes we lack imagination. Here’s one example.

Sounding Off

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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....

A Certain A-Piel

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Meet this gem of an airplane.

Savoring Silver

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A building partnership builds on its success.

Building the eXenos

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Part 8: Trying out task-based Phase I flight testing.

Second Chance Six

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Part 6: Working up the panel plus some odds and ends.

Diodes, Backward and Forward

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Let’s talk about what makes a diode—what the physical makeup of a diode really looks like on the inside.

In Case You Missed It

Completions

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Builders share their successes.

Why We Built What We Did

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And sometimes we bought instead of built (again).

Elements of Evolution

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For this month’s cover story on the updated Van’s RV-14A, I not only got...

Findlay Punch

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Hole-making punches, also known as knockout punches, are a quick and easy way to...