KITPLANES

You wouldn’t think that a little 1,000-lb MGW aircraft would require this much braking.

September 20 & 21, 2024, in Mexico, Missouri

Without screws or rivets, you’re looking at adhesive.

In this interview, Rian Johnson looks ahead at the next steps for MOSAIC and offers his perspective for what might come out of the FAA next year when the new rules package is announced.

Wiring a panel? How about upgrading to the ultimate avionics work surface?

The Gweduck is a hero-class Experimental three decades in the making.

Lockwood’s Rotax-powered RV-9A is more than just fancy rhinoplasty.

Kitfox’s Super Sport gets more than new pep from Rotax’s turbocharged 916 iS.

Can a modern replica actually be better than a classic original?

Getting a multi-engine sea rating in the always-entertaining AirCam.

Rotax’s spunky 916 brings new tech and international appeal to a venerated design.

This year is the 50th anniversary of the VariEze but because the VariEze changed the landscape of homebuilt aircraft, this year is what Burt Rutan likes to call the “composite canard revolution”!

What you need to get your airplane’s experimental airworthiness certificate.

Inside and out, Van’s updates its four-seater.

Part 9: With good company and a plan of action, things got rolling! Including the wheels.

An easy way to move heavy oxygen refill tanks.

What engine should be used in this project?

Build your own oil separator.

Inside the most aggressive builder-assist program in aviation.

You wouldn’t think that a little 1,000-lb MGW aircraft would require this much braking.

Without screws or rivets, you’re looking at adhesive.

Wiring a panel? How about upgrading to the ultimate avionics work surface?

If you’re building/wiring an instrument panel, especially one with modern EFIS screens and avionics, you no doubt have dealt with the problem of how to secure wire bundles.

What a spaghetti diagram! Not really.

The Glasair static port design has a beveled segment that bisects the centerline of the port. This adds more than a minor complication to the machining process.

A designee is a private individual with the experience and skills necessary to do the work mandated for the FAA.

To say that Kitfox has been successful since then is an understatement.

With the announcement of Roswell, New Mexico, as the new home of the National Air Races, it seems a good time to give an update on the go-fast crowd.

One of the big motivators to amateur aircraft builders is simply dreaming about the adventures that their personal aircraft will allow them to accomplish.

There isn’t a pilot alive who doesn’t know what a checklist is. There are, however, pilots no longer with us who failed to use one.

Matco presented new DuraWear and UltraWear components which provide an upgrade to their standard brake discs and pads while maintaining the same pricing.

Tundra's line of no excuses off-road tailwheels.

Aircraft Specialty Flightlines, an AirVenture Veteran, has been innovating safer, more capable and easier to use components for experimental amateur aircraft builders for years.

Tom Swearingen has been making hose assemblies for homebuilders for quite a few years now and is well known for quality custom work done very fast.

One advantage of arriving early to AirVenture is that you may have the opportunity to preview deals before others arrive and the tents fill.