KITPLANES

Myron Nelson recently paid a visit to Aero Performance, a subsidiary of Aircraft Spruce, to see how hoses are made.

Nobody likes trying to remove dried bug residue. Unless you catch them while still, um, moist, insect remains will dry to have an impressive attachment to your airframe.

My latest prognostication jag centers on what’s next for Rotax. And it’s driven by a feeling that there’s no time to waste moving up the horsepower ladder.

A technique I learned when I bought my most recent car.

The new measures for the annual fly-in stem from pilot feedback and FAA review of arrival procedure recommendations.

The Gweduck is a hero-class Experimental three decades in the making.

Lockwood’s Rotax-powered RV-9A is more than just fancy rhinoplasty.

Kitfox’s Super Sport gets more than new pep from Rotax’s turbocharged 916 iS.

Can a modern replica actually be better than a classic original?

Getting a multi-engine sea rating in the always-entertaining AirCam.

Rotax’s spunky 916 brings new tech and international appeal to a venerated design.

Four years and 200 hours with the “cute” jet.

How to set up your spinner to run perfectly true.

Part 7: Did you know that trailering an airplane across town is an all-day event? I didn’t.

Experimental Light Sport Aircraft have a better safety record than traditional homebuilts.

Overcoming builder’s block and exhaust modifications.

Part 2: OK, let’s install this stuff!

Flying Rosie “from sea to shining sea.”

Meet this gem of an airplane.

Myron Nelson recently paid a visit to Aero Performance, a subsidiary of Aircraft Spruce, to see how hoses are made.

Nobody likes trying to remove dried bug residue. Unless you catch them while still, um, moist, insect remains will dry to have an impressive attachment to your airframe.

A technique I learned when I bought my most recent car.

Even if you’re only off a small fraction of an inch, the eye sees that the air vent isn’t concentric in the hole.

Plunge into drilling accurate holes for fasteners in mating parts.

By now, the Apple iPad has established itself as a strong utility player in many aircraft, most often running as a so-called electronic flight bag (EFB) to display moving maps, charts, weather and traffic. But Falken Avionics’ Flight View system has a different take on putting Apple’s tablet to use—as a primary instrument. 

Since we live on an airpark, have a large hangar of our own and...

Humans are amazingly adaptable but sometimes we lack imagination. Here’s one example.

We are seeing more talk of people rebuilding cores found in barns or the back of hangars.

Nobody likes trying to remove dried bug residue. Unless you catch them while still, um, moist, insect remains will dry to have an impressive attachment to your airframe.

Not everyone is strongly “handed” and there are some applications where a grip that feels right in either hand is, um, right for the job. That’s the thinking behind Pioneer Control Grips’ new ambidextrous grips.

Flybreezy, a company based in California, has a new product aimed at making battery charging less of an issue for pilot videographers.

Featuring color displays, the new radios are com only (GTR 205) or a nav/com (GTR 215).