Falco Builders Letters

 

 

Okay, we're getting back up to speed with the Falco Builders Letter. We're always looking for articles, reports, news, bragging, etc!

Alfred Scott
alfred.scott@me.com


2023


September

Falcoholic or What?   Farewell to a Unique Gentleman

 


2022


September

When Mosquitoa Crashed the Nazis' Party   The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce
 
Inside Tempress Industries   Schuler Trumbly Falco

2020


December

Circumcision by Sawsall   Garmin G3X Touch   Hard Dried Cow Pat   Giulio Moroni   Kelly Eberle   
Cumberford Martinique   Mike Jerram    Stelio Frati's Falco   Susan Rewired

2019



December

Slow Boat to Oslo   A Dangerous Thing   Two Emergencies   The Tree Flies
Composite Prop for the Falco   Falco CC-PZE   Swing Wing No More

2013



September

Dutch Master Falco   Pilgrimage, Oshkosh to Chino
Pipistrel Panthera   Dominique Francois   Falco Story

2012



June

Falco Pilgrimage   Glider, Part 28   Somewhere Over Kansas



October

Brief Encounter   Falco Pilgrimage, Chino to Oshkosh
Falcos at Fredericksburg   Of Pilots and Ironworkers

2011



March

My Name is Malcolm and I'm a Falcoholic   Precision GPS Approaches
Hung Nguyen   Morrien Glass Panel



September

First Flight G-CYLL   West Coast Fly-In   One That Didn't Get Away

2010



March

Nustrini and Frati   Flight of Fancy   Born to Build Falco   
Mini-Frati, Golden Car F.30   Dutch Treat Falco



June

Antique Baby   If You Seek His Monument
Falco Birthday Party   One That Got Away



September

Rob Phillis   Up, Down and All Around   Sir Mix-a-Lot, Falco and Ferraris
 Falcos at Taos, NM   Falco at Rosamond Lakebed

2009



March

Giovanni Fulcheri   Out of Woods   N48BL Returns to Air
Marcel Morrien   Harold Thompson



June

A Lifelong Dream    Charlie and Bill Nutt's Falco    
Into Shop    Northern Territory & Queensland



September

Well Drilling & Falcos    Shop Class as Soulcraft    Glider, Part 27
West Coast Fly-In    Furio at Oshkosh    Master Class in Wheels-Up Landing



December

Susan Gets High    Macchi-Castoldi MC-72
Macchi Modeling    Walter Marsh

2008



March

First Flight of N767CN   Coast to Coast Australia
Flight of 'The Lizard'   Falcos Downunder




June

Flying Falco    Homebuilt v. Production    Into Cold Water
 
Confessions of Now-Retired Aviator



September

Larry Weldon    Frati and Napo    Glider, Part 25



December

Nobody Shoots at Me    Out of Water    Glider, Part 26    Got Wood?    Benchmark


2006



June

G-CCOR    Falco Out of Africa    Advanced Hot Fat Sparks    
My Falco Story    Man and Machine



December

Gordon Cook    Vacuum Bagging    Fiberglassing Airframe
Blau Machen auf Italienisch    Glider, Part 24    Story of Falco I-DRIM

2005



April

Factory Falco Plywood Butterfly Reborn    A Great Road to Travel    Autopilot Installation
Falcos Downunder    Glider, Part 23    John Kahrs


2004



April

Launching La Dolce Vita    Slowest Falco Builder    Doug Henson
George Richards    Gold-Plated Porsche    If a Falco Project Could Only Talk



September

Fulfillment of Perfection    Angle-of-Attack Indicators    Frati Flips Over Falco Builder's Wife
Across Tasman Sea    Gordon Cook Moves

2003




March

Bravissimo    Fred's Falco Finally Flies   To Papua New Guinea
Falcos Formate Downunder   Versatile Syd Jensen



September

Al Dubiak's Bronze Lindy   Falcos Descend on California Wine Country   Texas to New Zealand   Glider, Part 22

2002



June

Weebee Air Force Doubles in Size   Mystique of Small-Plane Pilot
A Tail of Two Tires



September

Family Affair, Nustrinis & Falco   Switch Hitters   Glider, Part 21
It Really Happened   London Falco Party

2001




March

Al Dubiak   Glider, Part 19   George Barrett Unique
Flat Six   You Bought a WHAT?



June

Life After Falco?   Cinco de Mayo Falco   Living with a Falco



September

Flight of Soul   With Hostile Intent   Glider, Part 19   Falcos Unite Down Under



December

Legends in Our Own Lunch Times: Stipa Caproni   Mel's Tailstand Incident
Glider, Part 20   Latest on Caproni Calamari

2000



March

Fanie Hendriks   French Renaissance Falco   Falco Esperence   Two-Axis Autopilot



September

Lightness in Air   Glider, Part 18   From Perugia to Oshkosh



December

Russell Up a Falco    Kairys Brings Cup Home    If It Looks Bad, It Is Bad    West Coast Fly-In
S-TEC & GPS Installation    One More Falco Finale    Andrea Plows Field

1999



March

Ian Ferguson   My Husband Is Building an Aeroplane   Magnificent Obsession
Aftermath: Luciano Nustrini   Bezard's Buzzards



June

Dave Nason   Kennedy Crash



September

Ten Bridges of Vilnius   Falco Finale   Only from Jonas   What Are You DOING?
 
Thinning West System Epoxy   West Coast Fly-In


1998



March

First Homebuilt Falco in Holland   Charles Wagner Flips Lid
Glider, Part 17   Boring Falcos   Moving Falco



June

The Falco Story, G-CWAG   Stan Harper's Spitfire   It All Started in Our...
Versace Falco, Part 1   My Dual-GPS Falco   Glider, Part 18



September

Frati Finale   West Coast Fly-In   Wanna Get Weighed?
A Nutter Falco Hijacked   Dear Ms. Lewinsky



December

Kim Mitchell: Building N98KM   Flight Test of N98KM
Birth of N89WH   Skinning Wing

1997



March

First Flight: G-OCAD   Guido Zuccoli   Vern Raburn's Connie



June

Five Hundred Dollar Burger   Glider, Part 14   Accident Report: G-OCDS



September

G-GANE Flies Again   Glider, Part 15   Cecil's Big Adventure
 
Cecil's Speed Mod   Meandering Through Ireland



December

Falco Lands on the Information Superhighway   Another Falco in England
West Coast Falco Fly-In   Glider, Part 16

1996



March

Son of Marchetti   Stelio Frati Replies   Flight of the Falco



June

Art Witzke   Replacing-and Improving-Your Falco's Vacuum Pump
The Antenna Wars   Glider, Part 12



September

Frati Invaded Again   Un-Falco   Mendocino Missive   Fixing a Fuel-Tank Leak



December

Ralph Braswell   Glider, Part 13   Speed Gain from Cowling Modification

1995




March

Jim Petty   Paper Tiger?   Glider, Part 10
Rex Hume's Falco   Mid-Life Without a Crisis



June

Falco from Snowy River   From Another Perspective   Glider, Part 11
 
Bending Wing Skins   If They Could See Me Now



September

Devoe in d'Air   Howard & Marty Benham   Oshkosh via the Amazon   C'est la Vie
 
Stelio Frati, Out in the Open   Impressions of Oshkosh



December

First Homebuilt Falco in Germany   Seduction, Number 50...   Fuel-Flow Computers
Heroes   Building an SF.260   Accident Report, N11HM   Video Review: First Flights

1994



March

Marchetti Madness    Glider, Part 6
Instrument Panel Removal   Your Test Pilot   



June

Legendary Airplane, F.8L Falco   Glider, Part 7
Italy's Speedy Seaplanes   Performance Testing 101




September

Dave McMurray   The Unsinkable Miss Fitt   Glider, Part 8
Bob Bready   George Barrett   Airworthiness Directives




December

Jerry Walker   Olivers at Dayton
 
Sunriver Express   Glider, Part 9

1993



March

Marcelo Bellodi   Glider, Part 2   How to Annual Your Falco




June

Mangalore Dispatch   Glider, Part 3   The Flying Pidgeonhole



September

Oshkosh   Glider, Part 4   John Shipler   Dick Reichenbach
Swing-Wing Falco   Italian Jobs




December

First Flight: Stuart Gane   Glider, Part 5   Cecil Rives
U.S.S. Kitty Hawk   Corporal Goldberg   Golden Silence

1992



March

Larry Black   How to Kill Yourself in a Homebuilt Airplane   Accident Report
Transponder Antenna Problems   A Canopy Caper   My Belly



June

Sequoia 300 First Flight: Jim Baugh



September

Jan Waldahl   Around Falco Patch   Inspection Panels   Right on Schedule



December

Guido Zuccoli   Glider, Part 1   Lite Engineering & Myth of Simplified Certification
Why I Fly a Phony Warbird

1991



March

Bjoern Eriksen   It's Easy Building a Falco
Have an Ice Day   Low Ceilings & Falco



June

Steve Wilkinson   Jonas Dovydenas   Falco-issimo



September

Around Falco Patch   HP-32 Programming
Bending Wing Leading Edge Skin



December

Building Falco, Part IV   Uncertificated Petard
Brave New GPS World is A-Coming

1990



March

Building Falco, Part III   Introverts   Trouble at EAA



June

Charles Gutzman   Syd Jensen   EAA: A Problem with Appearences



September

Frati/Sequoia Falco F.8L   Baby Bootlegger   West Coast Falco Fly-In



December

Around Falco Patch   CAD Malarky   Builder Letter Index

1989



March

Jim Slaton   Steve Bachnak   Perfect Day
Devoe, DeAngelo and D'Bingelis



June

Terry Smith   Tim Baker   Oxygen for the Falco



September

Rex Hume   Stability vs. Trimmability   John Oliver   Joel Shankle   Jimmy to Oshkosh
Aftermath: G-ROVI   BNC Assembly   Metalwork Without Tears



December

Ben Burgoyne   Perry Burholm

1988



March

Building Falco, Part II   Devoe on de Falco
Dead on Arrival: Porsche PFM   Notes From Sideline



June

Neville Langrick



September

Jim and Gail Martin   Visit with Frati
Aftermath: N69WD   Ferrucio Guaducci



December

Aerolite   French Mother

1987



March

George Neuman   Spinning the Falco
Aftermath: Richard Brown




June

Sequoia Falco F.8L   Respirators



September

Dan Garn & Wendell Taylor   Best Airplane in the World
 
Kindergarten



December

Pawel Kwiecinski   Jimmy's Big Ride

1986



March

Herbert Mueller   Flying the Falco   Tinkertoys inSpace
More Aftermath: Dave Aronson   Private Airports   Bagpipe Boogie



June

Building Falco: Part 1



September

Bad Day at the Races



December

Richard Brown   Buzz Glade
Go West, Young Man

1985



March



June

Stelio Frati to Oshkosh   Jimmy Shaw
John Harns   Aftermath: Dave Aronson




September

Jim DeAngelo   Karl Hansen   Chilean Air Force Falco
 
Tony Bingelis   Oshkosh '85    Flying John Harns Falco



December

Ray Purkiser   Jonas & the Aileron
Jerry Ward on Fuselage Frames   Frati 

1984



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