Maintaining Glasair Fuselage Width

Kern Hendricks recently brought his kit to our Service Center for some help in completing it, and pointed out that during the construction of...

Measuring Catalyst

Submitted by Art Chard - Glasair FT When using an eye dropper to measure catalyst, hold the eye dropper vertically. If it is held horizontally...

Glasair Wing Closing Tip – Checking for Water Traps

Submitted by Bob Buckihul In preparation for wing closing, I scrubbed out the fuel tanks with water and Simple Green. After lots of scrubbing and...

Spinning the Glasair

Over the past year or so, I have been learning and practicing aerobatics in our airshow Glasair RG, N84AG. It is a lot of...
Spark plug tray, adjusting tool, gap gage, spark plug socket and extension, magneto timer, torque wrench, combination wrenches, ratchet, socket and extension

Tools to Maintain Your Sportsman or GlaStar

As we get more Sportsman builders who may not have extensive tool collections, the question has come up, what tools do I really need...

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...

Glasair I Retractable Gear

The Technical Support Department has noted a significant increase in builder questions related to the Glasair I kit . Although this design has been...
glasair flap plaster molds

Determining Glasair II-S Slotted Flaps Cut Locations

This tip was submitted by John Burnaby, FT #2081 I wanted a more precise method of determining where to cut the flap panels, for installation of...

Level-Headed Observations

This builder hint concerns the lowly instrument called the "level." No matter what kind of aircraft you are building, everything evolves from what is referred...

Hinge Pin Safetying

This tip provided by Barry Bieber, Glasair II-S RG. Here is the method 1 used to safety my aileron and flap hinges. The method First, add 1-3/8"...