Build Series

Follow Kitplanes contributors through multi-part stories.

One step forward, two steps back

Part 14: To fix or not to fix?

Why is this airplane xtreme?

One person can’t imagine eating a whole elephant. It’s simply impossible. But the answer to the idiomatic question remains: one bite at a time!

Out of the holding pattern, onto the panel.

Part 13: Assessing the ailerons, learning the lathe and plotting the wiring.

Things to do while in the holding pattern.

Part 12: Final painted parts, installing wings and things, autopilot servos.

Part 11: Starting to wire my Advanced Flight Systems panel, installing a new fuel selector and more!

Part 10: small, important projects— brake lines, fuel lines, baffling and fairings.

Paul Dye - January 19, 2018 0

Laying out the spar, part 2.

Kitplanes - August 8, 2021 0

Our February 1999 issue teased a summer’s worth of aeronautical splash-n-dash with a “Water-Flying...

Dave Martin - November 16, 2009 0

Dave Martin looks at the future of ultralight-like SLSA trainers, and what may be in store from the FAA.

Barnaby Wainfan - September 14, 2022 8

A V-tail is a configuration where the horizontal stabilizer and vertical fin are replaced...