Pre-Purchase Inspection: All It Should Be
The most important rule in the sales game is “you make your money when you buy something, not when you sell it”. When it comes to buying an airplane it’s…
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Start With the Right Airplane
Hindsight is often 20/20, and allows us to analyze decisions past made. Put into the context of airplane ownership, one hard-learned lesson comes to mind. I think the single most…
20th Century Cessna Airplanes in the 21st Century
What a difference 50 years can make. During my college days back in the late 60s, I had a job where I would occasionally be sent to ferry a new…
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Panel Modifications (Dinosaurs, Dumpsters, and Dollars) Part II
As mentioned earlier, building a new instrument panel in an old airplane can be done on many different levels. You can choose to do a bare minimum of work installing…
Panel Modifications (Dinosaurs, Dumpsters, and Dollars) Part I
The realization that one is getting old presents itself in many ways. It often hits you when you look in a mirror and wonder what happened, or put on a…
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Interiors: The Inside Story – Part X
In this final article of our interior renovation series, we are down (literally) to the last subject to be covered, namely carpet. Of all the major components involved in renovating…
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Interiors: The Inside Story – Part IX
As if working on your side panels last month wasn’t tedious enough, we now move on to headliners. I’m amazed at how a company who had it so right could,…
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Interiors: The Inside Story – Part VIII
Studying how Beech built interior components, particularly side panels and headliners, is a classic micro study in product evolution. As mentioned at the end of last month’s article, Beech side…
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Interiors: The Inside Story – Part VII
I know I just spent a lot of time last month on the design and upholstery of seats, as well as the importance of seat support and comfort. However, of…