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Custom Tools for Rod End Installation and Alignment
Old-school PVC rod-end installation tool and ratchet-type installation tool. Rod ends are commonly used in Experimental aircraft for hinges, the most common example being in the empennage of RV-series aircraft....
Buy the Thousand-Pack
...complete design for a harness and build it on the workbench, then transfer it to the airframe. And the fourth is to build it in place. I tend to combine...
Dollies and Bags
...principles apply to many aircraft designs and can be adapted accordingly. How To Lift a Plane There are at least two ways to jack up most airplanes: at the wheel/landing...
Becoming a DAR
...What’s a Designee, Then? A designee is a private individual with the experience and skills necessary to do the work mandated for the FAA—think of them as a private contractor....
RAFE Celebrates Ten Rutan Designs
...Burt designed to win a glider design competition, is among the key Rutan designs, and it’s the rarest of all Rutan homebuilts, with only 18 built. Only two are known...
The Final Steps
...an inspection, there is a better than even chance that they will direct you to one of their Designated Airworthiness Representatives—a private individual who has been designated as a representative...
Kitfox Celebrates Forty, Too
Company owner John McBean in the factory STI. Truth is, 1984 was probably not the most significant year in Experimental aviation. Instead, you could cite 1947, when homebuilts were “legalized”...
The Snazzier 10
...for an ecosystem of accessories and modifications to emerge. But it did. Today’s builders have myriad choices for things like cowlings, propellers, interiors and other alterations to the basic design....
MOSAIC Next Steps—an interview with Rian Johnson
...of design engineering at Van’s Aircraft, the chair of the ASTM F37 committee working on MOSAIC standards. In this interview, he looks ahead at the next steps for MOSAIC and...
Orphan Part Angel
...where a pop rivet (sans mandrel) replaces a bucked rivet—the Glasair design has a beveled segment that bisects the centerline of the port. This adds more than a minor complication...
In Case You Missed It
Hatz Classic: A Homebuilt Waco
First-time builder Ron Sieck’s Hatz Classic biplane comes charmingly close to perfection.
ATS E50A Magneto Synchronizer
Aircraft Tool Supply made some seemingly small but useful updates to this magneto synchronizer.
