PIBOT, developed in Korea, is the world’s first humanoid robot pilot. It can sit in the pilot’s seat and flip switches in the cockpit, and knows...
Those little plastic shaft bearings as used on Peanut Scale rubber-power models are fine bushings for the pushrod operating the receiver On/Off switch. Adapted from 400...
Bowed parts are made from laminated balsa strips. They are strong and lightweight and typically used for wing tips, stabilizer/elevator tips and fin/rudder shapes. Making them...
Display your engine collection in plastic beef jerky jars. Use epoxy mounts in the lid. Dustproof. Put a small bag of silica gel in, too, to...
The open cockpit AirCam was designed and engineered with safety, visibility, and versatility in mind. It was designed for low-altitude, open-cockpit recreational aviation and sightseeing, and...
We’ve all seen crop dusters, but a jetliner spraying the sea surface? A British oil spill response company has partnered with an aviation organization to outfit...
Sometimes silver soldering is required when making wire landing gear or wire cabane struts. Two key things about silver soldering is that the parts need to...
If you don’t like the stay-put choke on your Saito, remove the screws that hold the slide retainer down, and flip the retainer over so that...
BLIND-NUT ACCESS If you have trouble seating blind nuts on the inside of firewalls and your hand is too big to fit inside a fuselage, make...
If you switch knob has been drilled to take a wire pushrod, there’s always a chance that it will break, but you can repair it. First,...
AviationWeek.com recently reported on 13 leading electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and offered interesting details on each. These are the birds we will see...
Florida-based Catalina Aircraft is reviving the PBY Catalina flying boat design and plans to produce two new variants of the iconic aircraft by 2029. PBYs are...