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    Homebuilt airplane project documentation

    Hi all, Looking for a good way to document a project I came across all sorts of solutions. While we probably all agree that good documentation is important for several reasons like final inspection, maintenance, repairman certificate for homebuilt etc, there are many ways to actually do it...
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    Cordless electric rivet gun and cordless high speed electric drill

    Hi all, As we all know there are multiple ways to skin a cat and probably just as many to build an airplane. Same with pulling pop rivets, multiple tools to do it. Probably the most common tool is an air driven rivet gun, but there are manual riveter and also electric driven rivet guns...
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    How to start a aircraft homebuild project?

    Hi all, Slowly but steadily I try to get my ducks in a row. like.. time to start - Jan. 2013 after moving to new location with big enough workspace Money - cleared Location - cleared time to build - cleared tools - almost cleared, decision about typ of aircompressor still pending Typ of...
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    Electric pop rivet gun versus Air driven pop rivet gun, any suggestions ?

    Hi all, I always thought that using pop rivets might be not only quicker but also more inexpensive than using standard rivets. A hand rivet gun is not that expensive and you don't need the whole air tool equipment including the air compressor. Looking at a video from homebuild help I realized...
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    Yet another but more serious approach to start a kit plane project.

    Hi all, as I already mentioned in my introductory thread, my Kit Plane dream is now more than ten years old. In the meanwhile I made several more or less serious attempts to start a project, I never did. Looking back there were a lot of different reasons, from friends at the airport who always...
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    Hello from Hershey PA

    Hello from Hershey PA The first half of a century is already behind me and I think about building a kit plane for more than ten years now, basically since I got my private pilot license in 2000. Pretty early after my license got issued I "fell in love" with the airplanes from Vans Aircraft...
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