Archive: March 2009

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Just three months into our yearlong 25th Anniversary year, we had a thoroughly reworked and completely exciting ViperJet on the cover. Lucky Doug Rozendaal,...

Archive: October 1994

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Our October 1994 issue led off with the “wet and wonderful” Seawind 3000 composite amphibian and a thorough flight test of Nat Puffer’s Cozy,...

Archive: November 1997

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Ron Wanttaja sampled the still-new Van’s RV-8 for our cover story in the November 1997 issue. “Forget the Fat RV-4 idea; this is a...

Archive: January 1988

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Jim Bede’s BD-5 had, by the late 1980s, still managed to hang onto its Bond-esque glory despite never really finding a good piston powerplant...

Archive: September 2001

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Over the years, the Kitfox has been a frequent visitor to our cover. This issue had the Kitfox Lite Squared, which was to be...
Kitplanes June 1992 cover

Archive: June 1992

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Editor’s Note: With this issue, we’re going to begin a loving look back at our past, and with it an abbreviated history of the...

KitStuff

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In many ways, Robrucha’s cartoons are as much a part of KITPLANES® as the airplanes themselves. Through the years, his clever, classy, always humorous...

The Perils of Cartooning About Avionics

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Whenever I try to cartoon about avionics, all I get is resistance.

Human-Powered Planes

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Agsperimental Aviation

Agsperimental Aviation

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In Case You Missed It

Metal Magic: Fixing Mistakes and Making Adjustments

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No airplane project is perfect. You are human and you're going to make mistakes....

Ask the DAR

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Transferring an aircraft's repairman certificate, replacing a lost airworthiness certificate, converting a certified aircraft to Experimental.

Reigniting the Spark

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Engines, you see, need frequent activity. When they sit, they corrode.

Drills and Bits

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As handy as a cordless drill is, it is not the best tool for many drilling jobs.