Annual Directory, Part 1 2006 Kit Aircraft Directory We list 343 fixed-wing aircraft built from kits and give special designation to Light-Sport legal designs; compiled by Julia Downie Aircraft Company Cross Reference You can find the company if you know the name of the aircraft design. Flight Reports Sword Flight The Excalibur II may be descended from the Quad City Challenger, but it's become its own deal; by Dave Higdon. Builder Spotlight Build Your Skills: Metal, Part 5 When is a dimple not a dimple? When it's a countersink. Dig in to find out more; by Dan Checkoway. Meet the T-Moose Adding a fine whine to Murphy's outsized amphibian; by Ed Wischmeyer. Completions Shop Talk Engine Beat How to buy a used Lycoming O-320/360; by Tim Kern. Aero 'Lectrics A new kid on the block--XCOM's 760 transceiver; by Jim Weir. Designer's Notebook Wind Tunnel Are you twisted? Maybe you aren't but your wings probably are; by Barnaby Wainfan. Exploring Around the Patch Getting it right: Ideal flying qualities are hard to develop, easy to misplace; by Marc Cook. What's New Zenith debuts quickbuild kits for Zodiac XL, CH801; edited by Brian E. Clark. Readers' Choice Awards 2006 The polls have closed, and the results are in! Compiled by Julia Downie. Light Stuff Smartly styled and Part 103 legal, the Prowler makes fun flying for experienced trike pilots; by Dan Johnson. Kit Bits Letters List of Advertisers Special Sportplanes Advertising Section Builders' Marketplace The Classified Builder 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.