Glasair Aircraft Owners Association

Mods

Tractor to Flush Gas Caps

Mods

Vortex Generators on a Sportsman

Mods

Acme Aero Stinger Tailwheel Suspension in a GlaStar

Events

GAOA Gathering at Lakeland Florida

GlaStar & Sportsman

What to Expect When You’re Expecting… an Engine

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GLASTAR & SPORTSMAN

How to & Builder Tips

GlaStar Brakes, Gear and Wheel Installation Tips

Gear parts: In doing the gear, I am finding a lot of parts missing: nut plates, several different bolts. Read through the manual to...

Maintenance

Lightweight Custom Jack

Steve and I recently installed a set of Thomas Cox’s jack pads on our tricycle-gear GlaStar. These beautifully machined pads fit perfectly and will...

SensenichDirect Stoddard-Hamilton Propellers

Glasair

Wolfgang Drahanowski’s GlaStar Flies

Flying

Sportsman Nose Gear Bushing Inspection

Maintenance

Keeping fiberglass parts in a hot attic comes with the risk of warping.

Fiberglass Parts Warping in Hot Storage

How to & Builder Tips

GLASAIR

How-to and Builder Tips

Method For Locating Slotted Flap Hinges

Submitted by Randy Bretton This method was used to locate the slotted flap hinges and build the flaps on my Super II FT. One advantage of...

Mods

Glasair I Flap Ratchet Plate

Submitted by Stan Gorman Flap actuation is much easier with this "saw tooth" ratchet plate, especially 35° and 50° position. Note: Glasair II & III ratchet...

Are You a Safe Pilot?

Flying

Measuring Catalyst

How to & Builder Tips

Nose gear hydraulic actuator installation, Glasair III.

Getting the Wheels All the Way Up Every Time

How-to and Builder Tips

First Flight of Bill Kerschbaum’s Glasair I-RG

Flying

PEOPLE & PLACES

Flying

GlaStar Required Nose-up Trim

This tip was provided by Craig O’Neill , Stoddard-Hamilton. Several folks mentioned having difficulty trimming out the required back pressure at 60 knots down final....