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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...
Building the Affordaplane, Part 4
Engine mount designed with off-the-shelf components and no welding. With this, our last chapter of the Affordaplane build, I will describe how an engine mount was created to complete the...
Manufacturing Considerations
...an airplane designer is to generate a design for an airplane that flies successfully and executes the user’s mission. The manufacturer must be able to build the airplane and sell...
Keep the Greasy Side Clean
...the Fisher FP-404 I owned a few years back. That design was inspired by an older Tony Bingelis design but constructed differently. It worked quite well, so I took the...
Dragonfly Rancher Gets New Life in Florida
...almost a cult following, with many pilots taking advantage of its beefy construction to perform impressive aerobatics on YouTube. It is designed to take +6 to -2 Gs. Massive flaperons,...
The Mule Pitts
...Reserve Grand Champion and, a year later, Grand Champion at AirVenture. His Rihn DR-107 One Design, built during the 1990s, won AirVenture Grand Champion in 2000. It is not surprising...
Not Bent, We Checked
...design from Craig Catto – one with a pretty interesting kink in the end of the blades. Reports from Sling are that this prop is measurably quieter, but we didn’t...
Crafting Cubs (With a Lot of Help)
...were as complete as possible, Cub Crafters takes the opposite approach: Have the builder be part of the production process and do a lot less assembly. In other words, it’s...
Off The Scale!
...a few decisions past the usual cleaning and airing up the tires. From any angle the TTP-38 faithfully follows the original form. For starters, Jim was in the process of...
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Alternative Energies
They may be largely unknown today, but two French brothers were among those exploring battery-powered flight in the 1880s. By Dean Sigler.