by Jon Croke | Jul 20, 2024 | Affordable Aviation, Affordaplane, Splog
With this, the last chapter of the Affordaplane build, I will describe how an engine mount was created to complete the last major step. As a quick recap of the previous chapters in this series, I was attempting to plans build a legal ultralight using common tools and...
by Jon Croke | Jul 2, 2024 | Affordable Aviation, Affordaplane, Splog
In the previous installment, I described construction details for the fuselage section of the Affordaplane ultralight project. Now let’s look at construction of the empennage and wing assemblies. Remember, this is a plans-only type of build using off-the-shelf...
by Jon Croke | Jun 8, 2024 | Affordaplane, Splog, Ultralight
In a previous post, introduced our video project for building the Affordaplane. To review, this is the plans-only project I demonstrated on YouTube for building an ultralight from raw materials. (You’ll find this free 50-part series here.) My objective was to build...
