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Applying for a repairman certificate, replacing a missing airworthiness certificate.

What do you do when your horizontal stabilizer isn't exactly horizontal? First, you check that the fuselage is level. If this confirms that the stabilizer is indeed slightly off, remove it and apply heat. Sounds simple, but there's a right and a wrong way to go about it, and author Bob Fritz describes the most effective method to straighten things out.

Repairing damaged sheet metal. By Katie Bosman.

Confronted with a large task, we often see the whole of it and can’t...