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Dan Parker and the Altitude Airplane
...their frequent visits to his shop, it was clear that Parkers parents are his biggest fans. His ex-landlord missed a place in history, though, by complaining that building an airplane...
Sequoia Falco: Wings of Desire
...Falco and its follow-on SF.260, both of which are low-wing two- and three-place aerobatic piston singles. The machine that John Shipler spent a decade building is not a lot different...
A Sign of the Zodiac (Part 7)
...whole story nagging me, and the powers that be at the KITPLANES® editorial office agreed that another “last” segment might make interesting reading. [Just like the building process itself, you’re...
Common Cents
...and, finally, the panel. For many builders, thats fine. The purpose is to build at their leisure, and the calendar is not in control. But the changing face of homebuilding...
Light Stuff
...propel. Learning to maintain motorcycle engines led to employment building, testing and successfully racing snowmobiles and becoming an expert on their propulsion. That introduced him to Rotax high-performance, two-stroke engines...
Barefoot Flying
...little to make or buy to ready the Corsario for flight. In what is really more of an assembly process than a building process, a builder could have one finished...
Completions
...500 hours building time (not counting paint), N342DM was sitting on the end of the runway at the downtown airport in Shreveport, Louisiana, fixing to make its maiden flight. On...
What’s New
...Yerly is the proprietor of Custom Flight Creations in Valrico, Florida. Yerly has extensive experience building and flying Europas, and offers a full builder-assistance program at his facility. The...
Contributors
...long-distance building process generally and the Corvair-powered 601s trip home in particular. His story starts on Page 16. Ed Wischmeyer Wed like to take this space to wish our erstwhile...
Build Your Skills: Composites (Part 7)
...vacuum bagging is a great way to get there. But how important is it to keep the pounds off? If you’re building a Light Sport Aircraft you’re limited to 1320...
In Case You Missed It
Magic Configurations
Designers are continually trying to create new and better machines that will outperform and outsell what is currently available.
Around the Patch
Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook weighs the relative merits of perfectionism in building and maintaining homebuilts versus using the aircraft for its intended purpose: flying.
Your Head, Your Heart, Your Hands and the Truth
Three chords and the truth. That’s how songwriter Harlan Howard, who, with Hank Cochran,...