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How-to and Builder Tips

No need to reinvent the wheel every time. Tips and hints for builders and owners constructing and maintaining aircraft.

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 Torque Values

We receive a number of calls asking for the torque on bolts such as the engine mount to firewall or other fasteners that go...
Superior XP-400 piston. Top two are compression rings and the bottom is the oil control ring.

Engine Break-in

Break-in of an engine refers primarily to the initial phase of operation in which the piston rings will "seat" against the cylinder walls. Run-in refers...

Lyle Powell’s 600 Hours in the Glasair III

Written by Lyle Powell, Glasair III. My III has always been difficult to touch down gracefully, perhaps because of my long flaps. My flap-dump button...

Engine Plumbing

Many of you may not be familiar with proper engine plumbing techniques. The beauty of home-building is to do it your own way, reducing...

Glasair Door Handle Safety Loop

I fitted these today to my Glasair I found them in an auto supply shop—they are the loops for a utility truck cover. I...

Fiberglassing Tips

Working with fiberglass and resin is as much art as it is science. As builders gain confidence and get used to working with fiberglass,...

Glasair Exhaust Systems

Noise Noise, as it pertains to our discussion here, is simply unwanted sound. Many people are bothered and angered by aircraft noise. Although in metropolitan...

Glasair Brake System Installation

File this info away for future reference when you start your brake system installation. When you start pondering the Nylaflow tubing/brass fitting brake system...

Fillers

Every Glasair and GlaStar kit contains plastic bags of the white powders (guaranteed to raise the suspicions of any DEA agent!) that we know...