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Good to see you are still making progress.

It's funny how much odd stuff ends up out in the bush.

What airframe is he sitting in there?

Sorry I missed this until now, hoping for a full and speedy recovery for Jacques.

Good that you are catching your errors, stinks about the wasted material given the logistics of getting it out there. Back when I was still going to EAA chapter meetings occasionally, there was one held at the home of a guy who was finishing up a Pietenpol Aircamper build which he had on display in ...

Most if not all of the Bearhawk scratch builders used fiberglass for the wing tips, built one off over male molds. Prior to the advent of the quick build kits, there was a builder who made a more production oriented mold, and he sold sets of tips to other builders. No reason you couldn't do them out...

If you have the ability to fabricate in steel, and you are willing to use a more conventional rig and propulsion, you might be able to come closer to your budget by building a steel monohull.

Forums (and other systems) that are not kept up to date have a tendency to become glitchy and are prone to being compromised. So while the upgrades are usually configurable to some extent, otherwise you're pretty much stuck with whatever changes are in the new version (like them or not), else you wi...

Probably double that before subtracting any time spent making the dies, but it’s been 20 years. Some of the Bearhawk builders made dies, seemed like most of us used the sticks. Now everyone buys the kit and they start out farther than I got when they open the box.

Those look nice. Yeah, there is a bit of a knack and some post flanging stretching needed when hand flanging. I have been an advocate of that method due to not needing to make one time use tooling, although if I were doing it today, I might go with the flange dies since I have a lathe to make them n...