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200 Stories of aircraft building
Builders: Below are 200 stories on aircraft building that I wrote in the last 2.5 years. This is just the top 40% most popular ones from our blog. They are loosely grouped, but you can scan through the...
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Thought for the day: Building as an individual.
. Building and flying your own aircraft, a device that serves no direct purpose to society or government, something that is just for you the individual, is a very important act that reinforces the...
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Thought for the Day: Importance of Affordable Aircraft
. Below is Henry Ford’s comment on his goal with the Model T. In five years, when people ask why the concept of factory built S-LSA planes flopped, you can point back to this quote, that evidently very...
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Thought for the day: Who will build our planes?
. So, who will make America’s light planes? You will, the working American, just as you have always done. In 1946 Cessna went from war production to making 30 C-120′s and C-140′s a day, without any...
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Thought for the day: Who do you trust?
. Once upon a time, I wrote almost 50 articles that were published by the EAA, I was on their masthead, I wrote for a half dozen other aviation magazines and was welcome in private industry discussion...
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Corvair College #29, Leesburg, FL. – photo report
Builders: Below are a short series of photos from Corvair College #29. It is a quick look at a very productive and fun event. By attendance it was a small college, but when gauged by individual...
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New 601XL, 2,700 Corvair, Ken Pavlou CT.
Builders: Zenith 601XL builder Ken Pavlou, the man who has done the online registration for most of our colleges, hosted Corvair College #14 and even set up this blog for me, has flown his plane for...
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Thought for the day: Choosing to be alive
“If the goal of the captain was to preserve the ship, he would never leave port. Most people never do. The goal of the captain is to seek adventure, to meet all the challenges and still achieve the...
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Thought for the day: “100% Safe planes.”
You will never be able to get into any type of aircraft and be 100% certain that you will be unhurt at the end of the flight. So why fly? Because there are things in life worth doing even if they carry...
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Video of Grandson’s first flight, 3,000cc Cleanex:
Builders: Dale Williams of SC sent in this link of his Grandson’s first flight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho2uh1cZwmY . It is a particularly good video, not of the plane, but capturing the day. If...
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Thought for the day: Your brothers keeper on Easter
“He has a very kind way about him. I am embarrassed to say this, but first I thought he was mentally handicapped, but after a minute I realized that he is just polite and a good listener, and has been...
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Letter of the day: Stockdale on Philosophy
Builders: Ray Richards sent me the letter printed below in response to a story I wrote about James Stockdale, one of the greatest leaders aviation has ever known. The story focuses on Stockdale’s code...
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Thought for the day: Finishing planes
Builders: I wrote the comments below in response to a guy saying that he was glad to see any homebuilt get done, and that even if the plane wasn’t very good and didn’t fly much it was still a victory...
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Youngest Builder with a running Corvair.
Builders: At Corvair College #29, the high point of the event was the perfect engine test run of the 100 HP Corvair by 16 year old Pietenpol builder Joseph Jameson. We ran a number of engines for the...
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Mooney sold to Chinese, Fake endorsements.
Builders Although it happened several months ago, last week there is a lot of talk about Mooney being sold to Chinese investors because of the time delay in magazine coverage. Beyond my usual outrage...
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Thought for the day: Leaving the hive behind
“In modern life, people are less and less in charge of important decisions that count. On many fronts, society is trying to prevent you from hurting yourself. This is not done out of concern for the...
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Thought for the day: Calculated Risk
Below is an excerpt form my story: Steel tube fuselages, “Safe” planes and 250mph accidents . ———————————————- . “In the 1960s America generated a number of people willing to take calculated risks to...
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90 Days to Oshkosh 2014
Builders: It is 90 days to Oshkosh. About 85 days from now, we will pack up the truck and head north the Pietenpol Gathering at Brodhead WI, and then onto Oshkosh. Our booth at Airventure is #616, in...
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FlyCorvair.net tops 500,000 page reads
Builders: Sometime late tonight, we will go over half a million page reads on this site. Coincidentally, this is the 500th story to appear here in 30 months of writing. These are not giant numbers for...
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Letter of the Day: Wooden Pusher aircraft
Builders: The letter below comes from Art Blake. It is referencing a comment that I made in the story: Steel tube fuselages, “Safe” planes and 250mph accidents. Art has obviously extensively studied...
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