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Setting Up Shop
...daunting a task. Better that you concentrate on todays task, e.g. “Im building an aileron.” Its a much smaller bite. Similarly, building a shop is a bite-at-a-time project. Unlike eating...
Dan’s World
When it comes to building airplanes, technically Im an amateur-and Im perfectly content with that characterization. You see, our “special” airworthiness certificates afford us some pretty amazing flexibility, and Im...
Letters
...and building a homebuilt aircraft. It was a tandem two seat, shoulder wing, mid-engine pusher, with a 5-foot driveshaft to the prop at the tail. I was worried about fire,...
The Staaken Z-21A Flitzer
...spars and built-up ribs forming the USA 35B wing sections, squared off with laminated wood wingtip bows. All ribs are identical for ease of building, though the lower wing’s structure...
Completions
...Simpson’s Aeros Sky Ranger N590SR first flew on March 3, 2007, from Williamson-Sodus Airport after 300 hours of building. The Sky Ranger is a 631-pound (empty) fabric-covered aircraft. I chose...
Contributors
RON ALEXANDER Ron Alexander has been part of the homebuilding scene for decades. He began restoring aircraft in the 1970s but was frustrated by the support structure-or the lack of...
Friday at the Golden West Fly In
...solid state. If you’re at that stage of building where the fear of wires is looming large, surf on over to Vertical Power to take a close look. Also of...
Bob’s Jabiru: Building a Solid-State Circuit Breaker
With instrument panels now being populated by flat screens, digital readouts and all manner of 21st century silicon wizardry, it seems odd to rely on 60-year-old technology to protect them...
Bob's Jabiru: Building a Solid-State Circuit Breaker Panel
With instrument panels now being populated by flat screens, digital readouts and all manner of 21st century silicon wizardry, it seems odd to rely on 60-year-old technology to protect them...
Amy's RV-10: High Flight
...air. It might not be you at the controls on the very first flight (you want someone qualified, and you may have spent more time building than flying in the...
In Case You Missed It
All About Avionics: Cutting The Metal
Heres something to ponder: By the time you get to the point where you are ready to build the panel in your homebuilt aircraft, you've already mastered many of the skills and techniques you'll need to do it by virtue of completing the airframe. That statement is all the more credible when it comes from someone with a vested interest in the subject, our own avionics expert Stein Bruch.
The Independence Project: We Start the Finish Kit
The Independence Project presses on, this time tackling the multiple tasks that make up the finish kit on the RV-12. By Dave Martin.
Unairworthy: Isolator Mount Problems
Rubber isolator mounts should not have a gap between them and the engine mount when properly torqued.