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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…