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Continue to the categoryVan’s Bankruptcy: How Did They Get Here?
How can the largest and most successful company in the kit-aircraft world find itself in this situation?
Commentary: Why Van’s Shouldn’t Kill the RV-15
Some have suggested that the only “right” thing for Van’s to do is kill (or at least shelve for now) the RV-15.
Toth Sonex
Sonex 1520 Special Airworthiness Certificate 22 August 22. First flight Sunday 28 August 2022.
Magazine
Continue to the categoryFlight Reviews
Continue to the categoryExcess Horsepower!
Paul Dye -
Kitfox’s Super Sport gets more than new pep from Rotax’s turbocharged 916 iS.
Ryan ST vs. Timber Tiger ST-L
Can a modern replica actually be better than a classic original?
World Beater
Rotax’s spunky 916 brings new tech and international appeal to a venerated design.
SX Appeal
Sleek looks and a 300-hp Lycoming make the SX300 a very sexy single.
Builder Spotlight
Continue to the categoryLove at First Sight
John Lake’s lifelong passion for the Marquart Charger.
Build a Custom Plenum That Will Work
For optimum performance, all it takes is a little bit of math and some fiberglass.
Shop Talk
Continue to the categoryLSA Tail Stand
I decided I needed a tail stand after my transponder inspection last spring. A...
Complex Impedance
Jim Weir -
A loyal reader writes, “I have a homebuilt Bugsmasher with a couple of com...
Exploring
Continue to the categoryManufacturing Automation at CubCrafters
On a recent visit to CubCrafters to help build a Carbon Cub UL, our...
How to Calibrate Angle-of-Attack on Garmin’s G3X Touch System
Paul Dye -
For pilots who fly with modern electronic flight instruments, having access to accurate, repeatable...
Remembering Reno
Paul Dye -
Aviation just wouldn’t be the same without the races…no matter where they are held.
Develop Today, Sell Tomorrow
While the Experimental world has matured greatly in the last few decades, we’re no longer seeing the rapid rate of change experienced in the 1970s and through the ’80s.
Products
Radiant De-Ice Technology
Paul Dye -
Radiant Technology, the company founded by James Wiebe (former head of BeLite Aircraft), is...
One Cool Creeper
Full disclosure, my father-in-law gave me an early AeroCreeper for Christmas a few years...
In Case You Missed It
Skiplane Shangri-la
Mike Taylor - 0
Two Bearhawks and a Cessna travel to the tundra in Saskatchewan.
Around the Patch
Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook takes the temperature of the homebuilt industry at the first big fly-in of the season.