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Aging Aviators and Safety
...Do older pilots experience more accidents due to stick-and-rudder errors? Aging can also affect the decision-making process. Are older pilots more likely to mismanage fuel, forget to put the gear...
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
...your entrance into the FAA’s certification process. You’ll start your application process here, but if you’re using a DAR, it’s best to contact them first. Registration First The first step...
Kitfox Celebrates Forty, Too
...by the FAA. Or you could say 1923 because that’s the year Bernie Pietenpol released his buildable design into the world. Or maybe it’s 1972 (slurring into 1974) with the...
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....
Second Chance Six
...so far! I tasked Zach with caulking the box that Stan created for the firewall. It is important to make sure there are no gaps in this process so that...
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...
Roll Your Own Oxygen Cart
...open the valve on bottle #2. Repeat the process again for bottle #3. Close all valves, disconnect the aircraft bottle and the filling process is complete, with the aircraft bottle...
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...
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Light Stuff
The dream of flying cars remains alive and well, and several companies are taking on the challenge. By Roy Beisswenger.
Light Stuff
Roy Beisswenger reports from Beach Blast 2011, the third annual PPG beach fly-in held each May at Panama City Beach, Florida.
