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Archive: January 1993
Our January 1993 cover featured the provocative RANS S-11 Pursuit. Howard Levy’s story chronicled Randy Schlitter’s already impressive resume at the time—nearly two decades...
October 2021
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Star Bird! Luxury and efficiency join elegantly in this unique blend of twin engines and canard airframe.
Mike and Laura Starkey’s...
Metal Magic: How To Back Rivet
Master aircraft builder Paul Dye demonstrates how to "back rivet" metal for a clean, consistent look, and offers suggestions to avoid common mistakes.
This series...
Metal Magic: Installing Nutplates
Every screw needs a place to go, and for many metal airplanes, that's into a nutplate. KITPLANES editor at large Paul Dye shows you...
Archive: February 1999
Our February 1999 issue teased a summer’s worth of aeronautical splash-n-dash with a “Water-Flying Special.” In it, we covered amphibious aircraft and floatplanes as...
Postcards From Oshkosh
There was much to see at AirVenture 2021. Some photos our reporters took did not make it into our daily coverage from Oshkosh, but...
September 2021
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Ryan ST Reimagined: Timber Tiger Aircraft’s ST-L brings modern technology to a classic design.
Buying Used—Zenith STOL CH 701: For 35...
New Parmetheus G3 Landing and Taxi Lights from WAT
Whelen Aerospace Technologies (WAT) announced today the launch of its brand new Parmetheus™ G3 LED landing and taxi lights.
The new G3 Series is 2.5...
Wood Legal Eagle XL
I completed my Legal Eagle XL at home and covered the wings in my living room and dining room over the winter. Great Wife!!...
Metal Magic: Blind Rivet Techniques
Paul Dye discusses blind or pull rivets—and why they're not just like hardware-store "pop" rivets.
In Case You Missed It
Bullish on Weight
For Red Bull racing professionals, reducing the engine weight in their aircraft is serious business. We can learn from their experience.
Checkpoints: AirVenture 2019
As I write this, we have been home from AirVenture 2019 exactly one week,...
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Class of ’86: How 1986 Transformed the Modern Kit Building Industry
Forty years ago this year, Chris Heintz’s CH701 first flew. That alone would be...
Unusual Attitude: GPS and Reality
While he admires and uses them, author Norm Ellis laments the lack of user-friendliness in todays GPS units. Editor Marc Cook counters that argument and extols the virtues of GPSes, complications or no, and their value in the cockpit.