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Split wing fold hatch provides exit for recovery chute.
Mods

Ballistic Recovery Chute Installation in the GlaStar

For several years in the early 90’s I looked at all the available kit planes trying to decide on the perfect one for me...
Keeping fiberglass parts in a hot attic comes with the risk of warping.
How to & Builder Tips

Fiberglass Parts Warping in Hot Storage

Glenn Culver sent this tip. I've had a problem with warped GlaStar doors after storing them in a hot location. If I were to do it...
NASA artist's rendering of a microburst.

Caught by Downdraft on Short Final

Flying

Who Needs A Carb? Life With FADEC

Mods
Right rudder, right rudder, right rudder...

Transition Training Challenges

Flying

LED Cockpit Lighting

Mods

GLASAIR

How-to and Builder Tips

Cake Frosting Applicator for Applying Resin/Mill Fiber Mix Warning

I recently heard a great suggestion for applying the resin/mill fiber mixture to the rib and spar tops of wings, stabilizers, rudders, etc. The...
Flying

Head in the Clouds

IFR Training in the Glasair Super II Written by Craig O'Neal It was about halfway down the Columbia River Gorge that I decided to get my...

Firewall-Forward Gremlins

How-to and Builder Tips
Lycoming IO-360 engine

200-hp Engines in a Glasair FT?

How-to and Builder Tips
Superior XP-400 piston. Top two are compression rings and the bottom is the oil control ring.

Engine Break-in

How to & Builder Tips
Figure 1. View looking down right side - Internal passages FVFV top.

Testing Procedure for Fuel Vent Float Valve Check Valves

Maintenance

PEOPLE & PLACES

Photo: Bidgee [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)]
Flying

Flying In Poor Weather

The GlaStar is such a fine, stable airplane flying slowly that it opens up some interesting possibilities for poor weather flying. Have you thought...

Glasair I – Still Strong After 20 Years

Flying
Werner Schneider flying his GlaStar in Switzerland

Climbs in a GlaStar

Flying
Bill Yamokoskis GlaStar in flight.

GlaStar Required Nose-up Trim

Flying
Smiley Creek flightline. Photo: Dave Hulse

Smiley Creek 2016 is a Success

Events

Towing the Line – Glider Operations with the GlaStar

Flying

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