Last month we thoroughly explained the various glareshield options for Beech instrument panels. One final topic to cover in this panel business is painting. Like glareshields, a well-executed panel project…
I’m sure that for most of us, our years in school are fondly remembered. I truly enjoyed the years I spent getting my industrial design degree at the University of…
I bet you thought we were finished with the electrical talk. Well, almost. I want to spend a little time discussing one last often-seen issue. In the last panel article…
With the trial and error of finalizing the panel design behind us, and an approval of the design drawing by the customer, it’s time to cut metal. The blank panel…
Writing about the next phase of building this panel presents me with a dilemma. My wife, Cynthia, is always telling me that women are multi-taskers and men are mono-taskers. I…
With all of the options and details described in the previous articles in your head, it’s time to start designing your new instrument panel. An optimal custom instrument panel installation…
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…