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Building Before Buying
...Center facility, Jeremy introduced most of Sonex’s 16 full-time and three part-time staffers, including founders (and parents) John and Betty, Schaible, Kerry Fores, who scratch-built a Sonex (Serial No. 9)...
Unforeseeable Experiences
...(Photo: Kerry Fores) My unforeseen host, Bill Cowden, was a commercial pilot who was active in the museum, an F-16 pilot with North Dakota Air National Guard’s Happy Hooligans, and...
On a Wing and a Whim
...know me. He was very interested in my name and took great care committing it to memory, “Fores, F-O-R-E-S, Fores. Interesting.” As we spoke and unhurriedly fueled my parched Sonex,...
Misplaced Confidence
Kerry Fores offering rib forming tips to Sonex workshop participants. (Photo: Mark Schaible) “I’ve learned more about people through my association with aviation than I ever did about airplanes.” -Paul...
Wittman. Field.
...relations and security departments for granting me access to the convention grounds to bring you these photos. Photos that prove, without you, Oshkosh is not AirVenture.—Kerry Fores Photos: Kerry Fores...
Take Your Time Taking Delivery
...equipped with one, you will want to learn—as a minimum—its basic functionality before you fly to avoid having to learn it quickly in the air. (Photo: Kerry Fores) This article...
How Long Will it Take to Build?
...did it take you to build your Pietenpol?”) Kerry Fores and his Sonex, Metal Illness. Flying an airplane you built is the reward for every hour spent building, but it’s...
What You Don’t Need to Know Can Hurt You
...has been cut to the correct length. (Photo: Kerry Fores) Every skill (metalworking, woodworking, welding, wiring, painting) has a broad spectrum of attainable knowledge and execution, but kit aircraft builders...
A Crowd of One
Kitplanes contributing editor Kerry Fores, a lifelong resident of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, self-populated AirVenture’s famous Brown Arch in March while self-isolating. This video is a compilation of over 20 different images...
Shenanigans
...toward the horizon. I was the only aircraft in the pattern and ATC forestalled my ever-changing runway requests by issuing a blanket clearance for every runway. In short, the airport...
In Case You Missed it
Metal Magic: How To Back Rivet
Master aircraft builder Paul Dye demonstrates how to "back rivet" metal for a clean,...
Light Stuff
Inherent biases or previous experience can alter the perceptions of any product reviewer, but perceptions may change when one takes the time to investigate further, sometimes turning what was thought to be a detriment into something less significant. Such was the case when columnist Dave Martin revisited one feature (pilot visibility) of the Remos G-3 SLSA.
