KITPLANES

An Oregon court approved Van's Aircraft's Chapter 11 bankruptcy recovery plan, and now the company can continue implementing elements of that and looking to the future.

They’re already going 350 mph down on the deck in Las Cruces, New Mexico...

Legendary pilot, educator and adventurer Dick Rutan has died.

The overflow connection at the engine-driven fuel pump needs to be connected to a tube that exits the cowling.

Not everyone is strongly “handed” and there are some applications where a grip that feels right in either hand is, um, right for the job. That’s the thinking behind Pioneer Control Grips’ new ambidextrous grips.

The Gweduck is a hero-class Experimental three decades in the making.

Lockwood’s Rotax-powered RV-9A is more than just fancy rhinoplasty.

Kitfox’s Super Sport gets more than new pep from Rotax’s turbocharged 916 iS.

Can a modern replica actually be better than a classic original?

Getting a multi-engine sea rating in the always-entertaining AirCam.

Rotax’s spunky 916 brings new tech and international appeal to a venerated design.

Four years and 200 hours with the “cute” jet.

How to set up your spinner to run perfectly true.

Part 7: Did you know that trailering an airplane across town is an all-day event? I didn’t.

Experimental Light Sport Aircraft have a better safety record than traditional homebuilts.

Overcoming builder’s block and exhaust modifications.

Part 2: OK, let’s install this stuff!

Flying Rosie “from sea to shining sea.”

Meet this gem of an airplane.

Diodes started off life fairly simply. Take an AC signal and convert it to a DC signal. Simple, huh?

An RV-10 owner recently brought his airplane to the shop due to high CHTs....

Plunge into drilling accurate holes for fasteners in mating parts.

From a construction standpoint this ultralight design is quite unusual in some ways and very traditional in others.

Cut large holes in thin material freehand.

Since we live on an airpark, have a large hangar of our own and...

Humans are amazingly adaptable but sometimes we lack imagination. Here’s one example.

We are seeing more talk of people rebuilding cores found in barns or the back of hangars.

Not everyone is strongly “handed” and there are some applications where a grip that feels right in either hand is, um, right for the job. That’s the thinking behind Pioneer Control Grips’ new ambidextrous grips.

Flybreezy, a company based in California, has a new product aimed at making battery charging less of an issue for pilot videographers.

Featuring color displays, the new radios are com only (GTR 205) or a nav/com (GTR 215).