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Homebuilt Aircraft Directory
2010 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide
Looking for a new project? This year’s edition of the Kit Aircraft Buyer’s Guide features a feast of 313 kit aircraft models you can build and fly. Compiled by Cory Emberson.

Flight Reports
Bush Hog
How do you say ginormous in Russian? Bush Hog. Ed Wischmeyer flies the E-7 prototype, and finds the development team is on top of things.

Builder Spotlight
Avionics Special: Surfing the Rapids
Marc Cook’s installation of Grand Rapids Technologies’ Horizon HX synthetic vision EFIS is darned near plug-and-play, and works beautifully.

Build a Bear: Put the Fabric in Fabrication
Dave Prizio evaluates the two major fabric covering systems – PolyFiber and Air-Tech – and sets to work, patiently covering his Texas Sport Cub airframe.

The Independence Project: We Start the Finish Kit
The Independence Project presses on, this time tackling the multiple tasks that make up the finish kit on the RV-12. By Dave Martin.

Shop Talk
Aero 'Lectrics
Jim Weir borrows a trick from the world of computers to provide a cool breeze to your radio stack.

Designer's Notebook
Wind Tunnel
Barnaby Wainfan brings aerodynamics to life with an illustrated field guide to the various devices seen at AirVenture 2009.

Exploring
Around the Patch
Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook reflects on the past year’s celebration of KITPLANES’ first quarter century, and finds that predictions for the next 25 years don’t come easily.

What's New
CHR International acquires the Safari helicopter kit, formerly known as the Baby Belle. Flight Data Systems unveiled its T-30 digital tachometer. Edited by Mary Bernard.

Down to Earth
Amy Laboda discovers that a newly installed EFIS, six-weeks away from her RV-10 and an acute caffeine deficiency challenge her inner student.

Experimotive
Ben Haas’s STOL Zenith 801, featuring a Ford V-8 auto conversion, made quite a first impression at AirVenture ’09. This month, he tells Rick Lindstrom what makes it all work.

Light Stuff
Dave Martin revisits the Evektor SportStar, and even after a three-year hiatus, he found the Max IFR to be a forgiving and delightful airplane.

Kit Bits
Letters

List of Advertisers

Builders' Marketplace

The Classified Builder

Kit Stuff
Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha.

Download KITPLANES® in PDF
Download the complete December 2009 issue of KITPLANES® in one PDF file.

Headlines
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.
 
cubcrafters-adventure-kit-snipCubCrafter's Randy Lervold gives us the skinny on the new Carbon Cub Adventure package introduced here at Oshkosh.
 
sportsman-tc-interview-snipGlasair Aviation’s Mikael Via introduces the new turbocharged, carbon-fiber-bodied Sportsman TC at Oshkosh 2010.
 
sonex-onex-snipKITPLANES interviews Jeremy Monnett after the roll-out of the light, efficient, single-seat Onex at Oshkosh 2010.
 
europa-snipKITPLANES' 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.