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Lead Museum Store Representative Kyle Voltz checks a cleco for proper seating.
New Tricks
Three things you should know if you want to
teach someone like me to build an airplane
By Hal Bryan
I've been learning a lot lately about building airplanes.
I've been building every week on the EAA staff's Zenith
CH 750, and I've attended a couple of EAA SportAir
Workshops. But in addition to learning about building,
I've also learned a thing or two about how I learn.
There's not much I can teach readers of Experimenter
about building airplanes, at least not yet. But that's
not really the goal of my column. The goal, or one of
them, is to share my experiences as I slowly work
toward the hat trick of EAA membership: I've been a
pilot for what seems like all of my life, an enthusiast
for longer than that, and now I'm working glacially
toward adding craftsman to the list. In the process, I
hope I can teach you a few things about how you, the
Photography by Jason Toney
real builders, can help someone like me get started on
his own project.
Here are three bits of common sense I've found to be
extremely helpful as I've started learning construction
techniques, both in the classroom and hands-on with
our own project.
Start Simple
Like most people, I don't like being involved in a conversation where I have no idea what the other person
is talking about. Thanks to my age and my status as a
self-proclaimed super genius, this doesn't happen very
often, but when it does, it's extremely uncomfortable.
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