Tag: flight tests

When new aircraft from two very different designers, in this case Randy Schlitter and Richard VanGrunsven, surface with considerable similarities, consensus about basic design tenets must be blowing in the wind. Certainly Light Sport regs do constrain performance considerations, but human factors are more up for grabs, and that’s where one or another design can truly shine; by Marc Cook.

For safety’s sake, all switches and circuit breakers should be labeled as to function...

Way back in the early issues of KITPLANES®, when we still felt the need...

Electrons and nitrous put Neil Wischer’s RV-8 into the 270-mph club.