Louise Hose
Louise Hose is an instrument-rated, commercial pilot who regularly flies her RV-6, her husband’s RV-8, and an RV-3B and a Dream Tundra, which they built together. They live in Dayton Valley Airpark in Nevada. She also edits the monthly, free digital newsletter, The Homebuilder’s Portal by KITPLANES®.
Photo Op with the Wright Brothers!
KITPLANES editor-in-chief, Paul Dye, took some time out today to take advantage of a photo opportunity with the Orville and Wilbur Wright, and you...
Searching for the Right RV-6
If at first you don't succeed, keep looking-sooner or later you'll find it!
Buying Your First Homebuilt Aircraft
Building isn't the only path to owning an Experimental aircraft.
More Numbers
Dennis Hasha, Homebuilder Headquarters Registration Chair told KITPLANES that 1031 homebuilt aircraft had flown in and registered at AirVenture as of noon today. A...
Liberty
One RV that draws the attention of every AirVenture passerby is "Liberty" with a spectacular paint job that pays tribute to all branches of...
Spectator Day
Most of the homebuilts that made up the record-setting attendance in Homebuilt Camping and Parking earlier in the week have left the field and...
Hypoxia
The FAA Aviation Physiology group came to AirVenture with a very cool new "experiential" teaching device---a normobaric hypoxia training chamber. Every half-hour from 9...
The Experimental Wright “B”Flyer
It always takes awhile for me to find my way south to the Vintage Aircraft area at AirVenture but I'm never disappointed. This year,...
The Mighty Micro Mong Rocket Floats Again
The first plane my homebuilder's eye noticed when I entered the AirVenture Seaplane Base today was John "Snaps" Knapp's Micro Mong Rocket tied up...
In Case You Missed It
Editor’s Log
Paul Dye explains how it was possible for him to become editor-in-chief of KITPLANES before he actually left his old job at NASA and what you can expect to see in KITPLANES in the near future.
