So your plane is equipped for flight into “known-icing”— no need to worry, right? Think again!
When we endeavor as pilots to fly aircraft …
Stills from NASA showing the accretion of ice on the landing edge of a plane wing.
Modifications
Sometimes we have to fix our planes and sometimes we get to fix them up. Some great ways to get more performance, safety and reliability out of your plane.
Rebuilding A Strut
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When I bought my 1970 Piper Cherokee …
Can You Afford NOT To Install A New Autopilot In Your Used Plane?
Over the past couple of decades, we’ve come a long way in understanding the nature of the risk we …
Custom Wiring Harnesses For Homebuilts
For those of you who have actually finished an amateur-built plane, you get the old saying that the last …
Mods: A Used Plane Reborn
This article is the first in a series about bringing a good used airplane up to more modern standards. Our …
The New Economics Of Flying
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote my first check to my finance company for my not-so-new Cessna …
Plane Speed: How Fast Do You Need To Fly?
Go ahead, admit it. When you read all of those pilot reports, you skim them, looking for the cruise speed …
Tomorrow’s Wings
If you’ve been around aviation for any length of time, you know a few stories about so-called revolutionary …
Game-Changer GE Advanced Turboprop
Late last year at the NBAA Convention in Las Vegas, GE introduced its new turboprop, simply called (in GE’s …
New Avionics Solutions For King Airs
When a veritable parade of avionics manufacturers, including the biggest names in the business, all decide to create retrofit flat …
Speed Without Mods
One of the most common questions I hear from readers at shows such as Sun ‘n Fun, AirVenture and the …
