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...
This works well on the English PAW 35 diesel engine, and it might work on many U.S. engines with similar exhaust systems. Ask your friendly transmission...
Young Guns – The kids are all right! The future was alive, well, and on display at Top Gun with a number of youngsters participating in...
You can make a comfortable hand rest that will “bridge” wet lettering and steady your brush hand by gluing a small rubber or plastic ball onto...
When you build a 1/4-scale biplane, you may have trouble getting the large, one- piece wings in your vehicle. Two-piece wings are better, but three-piece wings...
Perhaps no topic in the history of RC model aircraft flight has caused as much angst, consternation, and emotion as the subject of remote identification, or...
China’s AutoFlight is developing a lift-plus-cruise eVTOL vehicle. AutoFlight claims a world first with the formation flight of three prototypes of its planned Prosperity 1 air...