KITPLANES

Amateurs and Experimental aircraft. By Sid Mayeux.

What’s all this master switch stuff anyhow? By Robert L. Nuckolls, III.

For over 100 years, this family-owned business has sold everything from pipe organs and PT-19 wings to high-performance parts for homebuilts.

Columnist Barnaby Wainfan continues his flight-testing discussion by taking up the topic of longitudinal stability. By identifying the origin of the problem, whether it be a control-system issue, a too-small static margin, or a combination of the two, the flight tests he recommends will help to isolate the issue.