Build Series

Follow Kitplanes contributors through multi-part stories.

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.

Another customization?

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

Dan Horton - March 20, 2014 0

Jim Kimball Enterprises—Building the better biplane.

Jim Weir - July 7, 2021 0

We can use decibel calculations no matter if we are measuring in power or voltage; the calculations and outcome are identical.

Kerry Fores - June 8, 2022 7

I’ve found coffee and aviation are inexorably linked.

Marc Cook - March 25, 2024 0

The block diagram.