Aircraft & Aviation DVDs
4130 Chromemoly Airframe Construction (2 DVD set)
Three EAA Technical Counselors (over 60 total years' experience) show you the procedures necessary to construct a complete airframe from plans. Table jig construction, measuring, cutting, fitting, bending, tacking, and gas welding are shown in detail.
4130 Chromemoly Airframe Construction (2 DVD set) |
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TMV-0009-D | $65.00 | ||
7 Day Rental - 2 DVDs |
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TMV-0009-R | $16.40 | ||
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Complete Piper J3 Training Series
Four separate films have been combined into one very educational 110-minute DVD. See how the Piper factory originally built the J-3 in 1937, and then watch how they do a preflight inspection, and annual inspections on airframe and engine!
Complete Piper J3 Training Series |
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HTV-0021-D | $65.00 | ||
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HTV-0021-R | $9.40 | ||
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Eyes of Flight
If you want to learn how to handle, cut, drill, form and care for Plexiglas, then this is the film!
Eyes of Flight |
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HTV-0018-D | $65.00 | ||
7 Day Rental |
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HTV-0018-R | $6.40 | ||
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Metal Aircraft Construction Methods
This fascinating look inside the airplane factories shows just how we produced over 330,000 aircraft in 4 1/2 years. Patterns, blanking, forming, and assembly are shown, of course, but so also are pressformers, drop hammers, metal spinning, and power hammers.
Metal Aircraft Construction Methods |
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HTV-0015-D | $65.00 | ||
7 Day Rental |
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HTV-0015-R | $6.40 | ||
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Polishing Aluminum Aircraft
Also known as the Swift Polishing video, this film details the best way to polish an aluminum airplane...or motorcycle, boat, or auto. Kent has seen the results of the methods taught on this video and they are the best he knows.
Polishing Aluminum Aircraft |
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SIV-0021-D | $40.00 | ||
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Repairing Structural Tubing
This class teaches measuring, geometry, straightening, cutting fishmouths, fitting, splicing, and welding to repair some fuselage damage. A fine companion to our full-length 2-DVD series, 4130 Chromemoly Airframe Construction.
Note: You may purchase this video as part of the 3-DVD set, Aircraft Structural Tubing Video Set (3 DVDs). This set includes the 2-DVD series, 4130 Chromemoly Airframe Construction.
Repairing Structural Tubing |
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HTV-0016-D | $40.00 | ||
7 Day Rental |
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HTV-0016-R | $6.40 | ||
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Shaping Aluminum Wheel Pants
With seven simple hand tools (including the torch), a set of wheel pants or other similar panels can be constructed. This tape starts with alloy, temper, and thickness applications, and goes into buck development from drawings
Shaping Aluminum Wheel Pants |
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TMV-0002-D | $40.00 | ||
7 Day Rental - DVD |
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TMV-0002-R | $9.40 | ||
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Sheet Metal Repairs to the P38 Lightning
Learn to make a perfectly fit and contoured "coin" or flush patch on a compound surface using only basic, non-powered hand tools – the same standard aviation tools and methods that are still used today, but you get to learn them on a classic airplane!!!
Sheet Metal Repairs to the P38 Lightning |
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HTV-0014-D | $40.00 | ||
7 Day Rental - DVD |
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HTV-0014-R | $9.40 | ||
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Those Doggoned Reverses: Fairings, Ducktails and Saddles
We use hand tools, the Air Power Hammer, and the Wheel to make "reverse shaped" parts. Windshield fairings, strut fairings, gearleg fairings, and more are shown in detail.
Those Doggoned Reverses: Fairings, Ducktails and Saddles |
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TMV-0008-D | $40.00 | ||
7 Day Rental - DVD |
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TMV-0008-R | $9.40 | ||
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Advanced Techniques for the English Wheel (2 DVD set)
Learn how to keep the panel from flopping, keep from slipping off the edge of the panel, how to make accurate and repeatable pressure adjustments, take care of little low spots, cure waviness, etc.. and on and on.
Advanced Techniques for the English Wheel (2 DVD set) |
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TMV-0185-D | $65.00 | ||
7 Day Rental - 2 DVDs |
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TMV-0185-R | $16.40 | ||
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Aviation Hail Dent Repair DVD
This film covers removing hail dents from 2024T3 aluminum using a few specific hand tools. It begins with a discussion of how workable the material is and what not to do in order to avoid forming oil cans from over-working this metal.
Aviation Hail Dent Repair DVD |
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TMV-0015-D | $20.00 | ||
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