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    My aviation journey, updates

    Hi! for those who don't know me, I'm an Italian 21yo who lives in a VERY small island, years ago i fell in love with aviation and everything changed, I discovered this beautiful forum and realized that even if I'm stranded in the Mediterranean sea I can still enjoy aviation, so my journey began...
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    Fiberglass shell

    Do y'all know if it's possible to build a fiberglass shell to mount on a wood structure? Because building a monocoque is kinda hard but building some panels and attach them on a wood structure would be easier and add some kind of rigidity to the structure I think, do you think it's possible or...
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    Primary glider slingshot

    So, my "aeronautic journey" started a year or so ago and I barely made any progress, I want to build an aircraft but I'm stuck on a semi-desert island and I don't have the resources to successfully continue, but recently I've been to lake Garda and the local flying community guys told me that...
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    SAI Ambrosini 403

    So, since my island is still partially covered in mud and the volcano is kinda erupting I can't sleep and I decided to write a post about my favourite italian ww2 prototype. Today I wanna share with you the SAI Ambrosini 403, a wood fighter plane prototyped during the ww2 because of the shortage...
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    How are the single heads made on a 1/2 VW?

    I was wondering what's the process to turn the standard vw cylinder heads (that cover two cylinders instead of one) and turn them to a single cylinder head, are them cutted in half and then a piece of aluminium is welded? What valve covers do y'all use?
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    Is the rotax 447 a safe engine?

    so, I was looking at various engines trying to find a 30ish hp one for a fair price, looking at the baganfibio a saw that a prototype was actually fitted with a rotax 447, an engine that dosen't cost an arm and a leg and actually has some horspowers to work with (if you've read my other posts...
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    If you could choose only 10 tools, what would they be?

    So, as I'm approaching my first build I find myself wondering what are the best and most useful tools to have on hand for a plane build, at first I thought it was an easy one but then a million tools popped up in my head, and I can't buy all of them, even if it's kind of a dream ahah So I want...
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    Heath Parasol on floats

    Hi! While I was doing some researches about the heath parasol I found out a race(?) one that was provided with floats It looks like a regular parasol with very boxy looking floats, I've done some researches and found out that the one in this photo had a "standard" heath-henderson engine with...
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    Heath parasol metric plans

    Sup guys! After a long time school is over and I'm back on my little island with some free time. As I previously said I wanted to try building a heath parasol, but I can't find "new" plans and with metric measurements, do you know if someone sells them? Or at least if there's a reliable source...
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    It's possible to learn to fly on a homebuilt airplane?

    It's something I've been thinking for a while, do you think it's possible to learn to fly on a homebuilt plane? Apart from the fact that looks kinda dangerous I think that learning to fly on a home built plane would be ideal because you already kinda know how it works. Let me know what do you think!
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    Updates on the seaplane ultralight!

    Hi! For those of you who don't remember me I'm the guy who lives on a small Island and want to start building an aircraft. There are some updates, I've figured out what to build, I've chosen a Pietenpol air camper because it's a relatively simple project and I have large access to boat-building...
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    Sup guys! new member here

    Sup guys, im a new member and I want to introduce myself, Im from the south of Italy and I live in a very small island, like ridiculously small; I'm here because since last year I wanted do build a biplane-seaplane (hope I've used the correct words lol), I guess I'm kinda young (I'm 19, almost...
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