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Sun ’n Fun 2026 Recap: Avionics Upgrades, Thorp Kits, and STOL...

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Dragging it in low and slow for the STOL competition. [Credit: Andrew Robinson]
I made my annual foray down to Lakeland Linder International (international for almost ten years now!) airport for two days of sweating off a...

McFarlane Alaska Absorbs Backcountry Favorite T3 Tailwheel

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[Credit: McFarlane Alaska]
If you fly off gravel bars, ridge strips, or anything that only loosely qualifies as a runway, the odds are decent you have a...

MOSAIC Isn’t a Question of Can You—But Why You’d Build

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[Credit: FAA]
By now you know the headline numbers. Stall speed up to 59 knots clean. Four seats. Night flying. A Sport Pilot license—or just a...

Vintage in Review Returns to Oshkosh: Five Days, Five Stories, and...

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[Credit: EAA]
If there is a corner of AirVenture that quietly rewards the homebuilder, it is the patch of grass just east of the Vintage Red...

Zenith Throws Open Its Doors for “Fly-In to Summer”

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[Credit: Zenith Aircraft Company]
If you’ve ever wanted to see where all those Zenith kit parts come from, June 20th is your chance to find out firsthand. Zenith...

Conquering the Magneto, Part 2

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Making rare use of my drafting tools for the internal timing. [All Images Credited to Andrew Robinson]
The second installment continues demystifying the aircraft magneto, with deeper detail on service and troubleshooting.

FLYBOX Avionics

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The integrated ECLIPSE NG features a very sunlight readable display that shows the engine and all flight data organized in one or more pages. [Credit: Fielden Aero LLC]
Avionics and controls for Homebuilts.

Radiant Technology Unveils SafeGyro

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[Credit: Radiant Technology]
Latest addition to the Mini Glass line offers USB-rechargeable portability and intuitive motion-history mapping.

MagniX Unveils Electric Engine for the GA Market

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[Credit: magniX]
The new engine aims to slash flight training costs and maintenance, with a Van's RV-10 test flight scheduled for later this year and a commercial launch in 2027

Dynon Unveils Scalable Engine Monitoring for Kitbuilders

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[Credit: Dynon]
Simplified engine-focused interface streamlines cockpit operation.

Weight and Flutter

Andrew Robinson - 1
Aircraft control surface designs may include counterweights to offset and eliminate flutter. The counterweights should not be eliminated to save weight. [Credit: Kitplanes Archive]
There are places where weight is needed and should not be deleted.

A 30-Year Love Affair With My Stinson

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The author flying his Sinson 108-2 Voyager in the skies above British Columbia, Canada. [Credit: Mike Davenport]
The story of a caretaker of a versatile classic, the Stinson 108 Voyager.

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2026 Engine Buyer’s Guide

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Exploring

Manual Starting Methods

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Exploring

Golden Age Revival

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Builder Spotlight

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Editor's Log

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Think Like A Builder

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Winging It

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2026 Avionics and Lights Buyer’s Guide

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1936 Boeing Stearman Rebuild

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Homebuilder’s Insurance

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Builder’s Spotlight

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Last Bits

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Parts And Recreation

Salvage Parts

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Flight Reviews

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Creating the RV-15

Paul Dye -
Flying Van’s high wing during its multiyear journey to kit production.

Flying the Groppo Trail

Luca Perazzoli -
How to say ‘mountain flying’ in Italian.

Home-Rolled XCub

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Traditional or nosewheel, the XCubs are now available as kits.

Risen — The Master of Efficiency

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It is crazy fast for the horsepower!

ScaleBirds P-36 Hawk

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ScaleBirds, a newcomer to the kit manufacturing scene, chose to start their line of replica fighters with one of the first all-metal U.S. military pursuit ships of WW-II—the P-36.

Kitfox Speedster 916

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The feistiest Kitfox gets feistier yet.

Builder Spotlight

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Overcoming Setbacks on the Zenith 750SD Xtreme

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It is easy to realize what your true passion is when one thing is...

Builder’s Spotlight

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Part 22 of an ongoing Zenith 750SD Xtreme build, pushing the design further into extreme STOL performance territory.

Builder’s Spotlight

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Building them light enough to fly.

Epic Is Back

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Jon Humberd's epic Zenith build series.

North Idaho High School Student ACES Fly the Aircraft They Built

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New FAA Airworthiness Certificates for Van's RV-12 and Zenith CH 750.

Building Control Components for the Zenith 750SD Xtreme

Jon Humberd -
Part 18: Taking Control

Building the 750 SDXTREME: Part 17

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Custom mods to the 750 SDX main gear and nosegear bring serious weight savings and unique titanium parts to life—right down to the pedals and steering rods.

Forked-Tail Masterpiece

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Jim O’Hara’s scratchbuilt P-38 is a multi-generational effort .

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Think Like a Builder

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When a project moves outside your knowledge base, knowing when to bring in help is the mark of a smart builder.

Think Like A Builder

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The right mindset makes the difference.

Conquering the Magneto

Andrew Robinson -
Professor X and Kolchak would both be proud Part 1

Engine Analytics For Homebuilt Aircraft

Randall Brink -
A data-driven view of engine health.

Tie-Down Brackets

Andrew Robinson -
Finding an angle on staying grounded.

A D For Effort

Andrew Robinson -
LYCOMING O-290G REBUILD PART 1

Exploring

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Manual Starting Methods

LeRoy Cook -
Practical techniques for hand-propping and other manual engine starts when an electric starter isn't available.

Golden Age Revival

Mike Davenport -
Werner Griesbeck's meticulous total rebuild brings a classic 1938 Fairchild F-24 back into the air after decades.

Instructional Inflexibility

LeRoy Cook -
Flight Instructors tend to be the least flexible of all pilots.

Forgotten Flops

LeRoy Cook -
Many proposed, prototype, and production airplanes died at birth in aviation's golden age.

Better Half VW

Randall Brink -
Leonard Milholland's VW two-cylinder lightplane engine.

Aerotrek

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Thirty years of value and performance in the light sport market.

Products

All Jacked Up

Tom Wilson -
Aircraft Jacking Solutions introduces ease and stability to lifting an airplane

Buzz Job – The Tosten Haptic Stick Grip

Tom Wilson -
Tosten’s prototype haptic stick grip buzzes to warn of stall, integrating touch-based feedback to angle-of-attack data.

iFly EFB X7 Aviation Tablet

Omar Filipovic -
The iFly EFB X7 is a 7″ Android aviation tablet featuring a 2,600-nit display, MIL-STD-810G ruggedness, IP68 sealing and a 7,000 mAh battery—pre-orders open July 18.

KitFlight Modernizes the Aircraft Builder’s Log (Updated)

Omar Filipovic -
KitFlight makes logging your Experimental aircraft build intuitive, flexible, and future-proof—with powerful features and no subscription required.

USB-Powered CO Monitor from Radiant

Paul Dye -
Radiant's new $29.95 USB CO monitor lights up red if danger's in the air—and might just beat those old stick-on cards for reliability.

Holy Micro’s Absolute AoA: Next-Level Angle of Attack Sensing for GA Pilots

Mark Timney -
Advanced new AoA system from Holy Micro debuts at Sun ’n Fun 2025 with radar and LiDAR altimeters in tow.

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