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Kitplanes Magazine: Your Homebuilt Aircraft Authority. We cover topics relevant to anyone who has ever dreamed of building or owning a homebuilt experimental aircraft.
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Rutan Symposium Turns to the Coming Canard Maintenance Crisis

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The Rutan Aircraft Flying Experience held its annual Future of Rutan Designs Symposium on Wednesday, July 22, at Forum Stage 9. This year the...
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magniX Opens Pre-Orders for an Electric Engine Aimed at Homebuilders

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magniX is using AirVenture to move electric propulsion out of the demonstrator stage and toward the flight line. The company announced it is opening...

New Book Collects 91 Survival Stories from Experimental Pilots

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Every account in Fletcher McKenzie new book comes from a pilot who lived to tell it. That is the organizing idea behind 91 Lessons...
The week ahead: a KC-135 tanker passes over the grounds at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, where Phillips 66 will set up at tents #430 and #431. [Credit: USDA Forest Service]

Phillips 66 Sets Course for Oshkosh With Specials, Seminars—and Popsicles

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Phillips 66 Aviation and Phillips 66 Lubricants are headed back to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, and the brand is bringing the full kit: show-only specials,...
Backcountry manners intact: the ULT sits on a grass strip with the turbine spun up, built on the STOL-capable Carbon Cub UL airframe. [Credit: CubCrafters]

The New Jetprop Carbon Cub

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The Cub has always meant a piston engine up front but CubCrafters is changing that.  The Yakima, Washington, company has introduced the Carbon Cub ULT,...
The Rutan Model 76 Voyager circles Edwards Air Force Base in December 1986 as Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager complete the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world. [Credit: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center]

Behind the Voyager Flight: 40 Years of Quieter Cockpits

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Everyone knows the headline: in December 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew the Burt Rutan–designed Voyager around the world nonstop and unrefueled, staying...
The Granville Brothers Gee Bee R-6 “Q.E.D.” being serviced before the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race; Mid America Flight Museum flies a replica of this aircraft. [Credit: Wikimedia Commons]

Vintage in Review Returns to AirVenture 2026 With 90-Year-Old Flyers

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One of AirVenture's most storied traditions is back. The Vintage in Review showcase returns to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2026, spotlighting the unique and...
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Homebuilder’s Insurance

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Insuring your aircraft investment.
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Radiant Technology Unveils SafeGyro

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Latest addition to the Mini Glass line offers USB-rechargeable portability and intuitive motion-history mapping.
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MagniX Unveils Electric Engine for the GA Market

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The new engine aims to slash flight training costs and maintenance, with a Van's RV-10 test flight scheduled for later this year and a commercial launch in 2027
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Priming Tubes

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Sometimes the bear gets you. Sometimes you get the bear. Today, I got the...

Lying to Baristas

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The year is 2021. Fear surrounding the pandemic has subsided a bit and the...

Kit Stuff

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Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha.

Bringing a Baby Great Lakes Back

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After developing an interest in aerobatics, one builder acquires an airplane that allows him to fully indulge that fascination (after a few hundred hours of rebuilding). By Ron Bearer Jr.
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