April 18, 2026: Afternoon The response to this build is explosive - thanks for following along! I'm in the shop today moving at Carbon Canyon™ speed! The Progress : Yesterday I gusseted the first side of the rear fuselage truss directly over my 1:1 scale plans using T-88 structural epoxy. It's rock solid and perfectly straight. Today's mission : The core of the strength. Before the second side gets gussets, I'm prepping the internal "shear web". I've custom-cut foam triangles

April 18, 2026: Morning Ever wonder how F1 teams or Skunkworks projects get that perfect, integrated fit? They don't buy off-the-shelf, they mold the plane to the pilot. I'm building the Canyon Lightning™ for 5-hour desert cross-countries, which means the seat has to be perfect. Here's the high-speed, low-cost breakdown: 🛠 The Build : I used a simple cardboard and foam frame, lined it with garbage bags, and poured in less than a gallon of 2-part expanding foam. Then I simply

April 17, 2026: Evening Why I'm Redesigning the Classics (And how to build an airframe for <$1800) Stop struggling with blurry, out-of-scale 11x17 photocopies. I'm tired of the "aviation tax" and vague plans, so I'm launching Ultralight Plans™. I'm currently mid-build and nearly finished with the plans on the "Canyon Lightning" (I was previously calling it the Afforda-Wood, but changed the name to something cooler), a high-tech, hybrid evolution of the classic A-plane. By tra