Somewhere during every aircraft project, a builder faces a quiet moment of truth. It might happen while drilling a hole in a structural member, setting a rivet in a hard-to-reach corner, or tightening ...

Forty years ago this year, Chris Heintz's CH701 first flew. That alone would be reason enough for a celebration. The 701 is ...

Aircraft manufacturing doesn’t have to be a commercial activity. Mark Strauss The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center has a new airplane: a Sonex Waiex-B that was built in one week at the Experimental ...

Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. If you build it … you can fly it, too. As Peter Elsea and Jason Lorusso have ...

BREMERTON — It was a continuous process to draw, cut, measure, drill holes and assemble pieces of aluminum. Annika Pexton felt a sense of relief — and accomplishment — when she finished making her ...

Just how do you eat an elephant? Start with the first bite, that’s how. And that’s the aeronautical version of what local resident Allen Maris, 50, of Santa Ynez has bitten off with the construction ...