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December 2025 Blog Posts (1)

Bringing an old aircraft design into the modern era

I stumbled into a video on Facebook today concerning the Helio Courier. What intrigued me was the effort to bring the aircraft design (1950s) into the modern era; i.e. paper into the digital age.

It speaks volumes about the effort required to bring an older Type Certificated aircraft back to production in our time.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1549083926442621

The video brings back a lot of memories from my…

Added by Bill Skinner on December 22, 2025 at 6:28am — No Comments

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