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Homebuilt Aircraft Directory
2005 Kit Aircraft Directory
We list 349 fixed-wing aircraft built from kits and give special designation to Light-Sport legal designs (A-F); compiled by Julia Downie.

2005 Kit Aircraft Directory
Continued (F-P).

2005 Kit Aircraft Directory
Continued (P-Z).

Aircraft Company Cross-Reference
You can find the company if you know the name of the design.

Flight Reports
The Spacemaker: Velocity's Dash 5
Velocity Aircraft's XL model beefs up with added seas and baggage space; by Dave Higdon.

Shop Talk
Riveting Basics for the Non-Metal Builder
This long-trusted airplane construction process is simpler than you think; by Ishmael Puentes.

How Piston Engines Make Power, Part 8
In the last part of this series, "Turbo Tom" Wyatt concludes with a discussion on supercharging.

Gas Welding for the Non-Welder, Part 1
Zenith 601 builder Scott Laughlin presents a beginner's guide to basic gas welding; by Scott Laughlin.

Aero 'Lectrics
How to build temporary antennas for composite and metal aircraft; by Jim Weir.

Designer's Notebook
Wind Tunnel
The Cooper-Harper scale offers a quantitative way to rate flying qualities; by Barnaby Wainfan

Exploring
Around the Patch
Readers respond to the Top 20 Most Influential article; by Brian E. Clark.

What's New
Electronic ignition from E-MAG ignitions; edited by Brian E. Clark.

KITPLANES Reader's Choice Awards 2004
The pools have closed and the results are in! Compiled by Julia Downie.

Light Stuff
Seagull Aerosports takes a new angle on weight-shift construction with a fully enclosed cockpit; by Dan Johnson.

Kit Bits
Letters

List of Advertisers

Builders' Marketplace

The Classified Builder

Calendar

Kit Stuff
Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha.

Advanced Flight Systems' Rob Hickman details the company's new 5000-series big screen EFIS at Oshkosh 2010.

Spidertracks introduced a new, smaller, less expensive GPS tracker here at Oshkosh 2010. Rachel Donald explains the main features of the unit and the website that supports it.

CubCrafter's Randy Lervold gives us the skinny on the new Carbon Cub Adventure package introduced here at Oshkosh.

Glasair Aviation’s Mikael Via introduces the new turbocharged, carbon-fiber-bodied Sportsman TC at Oshkosh 2010.

KITPLANES interviews Jeremy Monnett after the roll-out of the light, efficient, single-seat Onex at Oshkosh 2010.

KITPLANES' exclusive video highlighting the Europa Monowheel built by Kim Prout. His Europa is one of the highest-time examples in the U.S., and amply shows off the superb combination of agility and utility.