Marc Cook
Marc Cook is a veteran special-interest journalist who started as a staffer at AOPA Pilot in the late 1980s. Marc has built two airplanes, an Aero Designs Pulsar XP and a Glasair Aviation Sportsman, and now owns a 180-hp, recently modernized GlaStar based in western Oregon. Marc has 5000 hours spread over 200-plus types and four decades of flying.
A Fine Specimen
There’s something you probably can guess about so-called factory airplanes—examples of Experimental aircraft built for design evaluation as well as press and customer exposure—but...
Brandon and Heather Petersen’s Kitfox Super Sport
Want to know what it's like to build a Kitfox Super Sport? Brandon and Heather Petersen crafted the airplane on our recent cover, which...
Van’s Aircraft Announces Recovery Plan
Van’s Aircraft founder Richard VanGrunsven today announced changes at the company aimed at addressing “serious cash flow issues, which must be addressed quickly to...
Six Cities Vie for Air Racing’s New Home
With the completion of the 2023 Reno Air Races, nearly six decades of racing in the Nevada desert came to an end last month,...
Light Sport’s Next Steps
At AirVenture this year—just before it, actually—the FAA released the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking encompassing MOSAIC, short for Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certificates. The...
Challenge Yourself
It’s human nature to learn a new skill, work hard to “perfect” it and then settle into a peaceable existence just inside your comfort...
RAFE’s Lady Vi VariViggen Update
Rutan Aircraft Flying Experience, which undertook restoration of the only flying VariViggen, suffered a huge setback when the engine quit on the way to...
X-Naut Expands iPad Cooler Line
There’s a new X-Naut in town. The California-based company has been producing cooling cases for Apple iPads for some time—they are built for specific...
Meeting the Beater
Hummingbird builder Vic Syracuse waxes poetic on his Sikorsky-based Experimental helicopter, which is on display in front of the Lycoming building at AirVenture this...
