I have a collection of Sport Aviation magazine from February 1982 to 2006 that I am willing to give free to a good home. You pay freight. Interested parties please respond via email, change the "DECIMAL" in my address to "." Garage cleanup time... -Bob Korves

Read the story, watch the two videos, and see if you can count the reporting errors: http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4922136 A Volksplane cropduster! Wow. And they even misspelled the pilot's name.

Many thanks to everyone in the aviation community for making our annual Big Kids Toy Show in Iowa City (KIOW) a success! We had T-28s, T-6s, a Mustang, a Columbia 300, a turbine-powered Lancair IV-P, a Citation (straight from Cessna's factory!), a '29 Travel Air, a Gypsy Moth, a Pitts Special, a...

Hello, I'm interested in learning more about making harnesses and such to make products like garmin 430/530 talk with a MFD or a EHSI or Auto Pilot. I'm pretty technical and i'm just interested to see if I can get a couple products like the above from ebay and just make them talk back and forth. ...

Is there a homebuilt design comparable to a Cessna 150 Aerobat? How about a Wagabond - is it good for spins and simple aerobatics?

I have been reading up on seaplanes (Seaplane Operations, by Cesare Baj and Dale DeRemer) and one frequently repeated fact is that it is very hard to get a seaplane up on the step on glassy water, because the lack of bubbles under the float/hull causes the heel of the float/hull to adhere to the...

I recently installed an EI FP5L fuel flow instrument in my Tri-Pacer. I would notice that at irregular intervals, it would reset it self. I'd catch the green Remaining LED flashing as it does after a power on self test. I could never get it to fail in flight. I pulled and prodded all the...

So, Jim Weir has posted some time ago in one of his columns, a design and instructions for home-building a reliable fuel-level sensor which uses capacitance and no moving parts to measure fuel quantity. And many hombuilt aircraft use auto engines that don't mind (some) ethanol. And auto fuel...

The Eastern Iowa Big Kids Toy Show will be held at the Iowa City Airport (KIOW) THIS coming weekend (May 20-21), both Saturday AND Sunday -- and it promises to be a lot of fun! Starting at 7 AM, we've got fly-in pancake & sausage breakfasts going BOTH mornings. There will be tons of cool "big...

On the stern of some paddle-wheelers are the paddles. One I've been on had its paddle-wheels run by pumps. Pump line ran out of the engine room and terminated in a smallish box next to/attached to the wheel's axle. Would that idea work for aircraft. Pump driven prop? One advantage would be...

Hi Home-built friends, The Dutch Homebuilt Association NVAV invites you to their Annual Fly-in and Barbeque on Drachten Airfield (EHDR) on 4-5 June 2006 EHDR is situated in the North of Netherlands (Friesland) and offers a well maintained 950 mtrs. asphalt runway and excellent camping space. It...

Hello all! I'm a newbie...So I've got my asbestos suit on... I've decided it's time for me to build an aircraft and maybe even fly it one day. I've been eyeballing this and similar groups and the usenet trying to make some good decisions on where to start. I've got the complete plans to the...

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Anyone here built a SA300 Starduster Too? Just after some experiences with the build and also experiences of dealing with Aircraft Spruce in the US (I'm in the UK). I am very tempted to make the SA300 my project, having looked at quite a few. David

Hello, May I bolt O200 cylinders and O200 pistons on a A65 without any machining? Thanks. -- Pub: http://www.slowfood.fr/france Philippe Vessaire Ò¿Ó¬

I am presently in the process of converting a PA-22 to a Sportsman 2+2. Plans call for new wings to be buillt from scratch and I am considering the use of Fowler flaps rather than conventional for greater lift, reduced stall speed, steeper landing approach and better angle of attack/ visibility...

My maintenance manual describes (what appears to be) a 90º gear drive extension. I cannot identify it by part number, nor can I seem to locate a source for purchase. Details: http://www.turbinefun.com/SpecialTool.asp Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your...

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Jim, you're always looking for simple DIY projects for your kitplane articles, aren't you? Some guys on the flyrotary list have be batting around ideas on how to determine if the prop on a pusher is windmilling. Would a piece of reflective tape and an optical pickup suffice? -- This is by far...

I need the phone number of the tower at KXTA. -R.S.Hoover