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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.

Loss-Of-Control Prevention Concept Wins Founder’s Innovation Prize

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A digital flight-condition indicator called Airball won the top award this week in EAA's new Founder's Innovation Prize contest. Airball's creator, Ihab Awad of San Jose, California, goes home from AirVenture with $25,000 after pitching his concept to a panel of celebrity judges, EAA announced.

New Hartzell 5-Blade Carbon Fiber Prop Boosts Speed, Climb Rates for...

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Evolution Aircraft has completed extensive performance and noise testing confirming the performance improvements of the new Hartzell five-blade composite swept-tip constant-speed prop for the...

Airbly's Cockpit Canairy Monitor

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Big data is a big thing for airlines, which monitor flights in real time to track maintenance and anomalies. Now the same capability is...

Zenith Announces New 180-hp SAM-EX

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This week at AirVenture, Zenith Aircraft, the new owners of the SAM aircraft design, introduced the SAM-EX. Based on the prototype SAM aircraft introduced...

From Our Junior Reporter

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I tried out a VR headset at the Aeroshell booth. VR stands for Virtual Reality. The headset offers a 360-degree camera view, with motion...

L-3 Aviation Products Announces Lynx ADS-B Products and Support for Experimental...

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With the new LynxDirect program, it's now possible for builders and owners of Experimental/Amateur-Built aircraft to self-install the Lynx line of ADS-B products. L-3...

Belite SkyDock Offers Fun, Affordable Flying

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Belite Aircraft's SkyDock has been updated with an attractive molded carbon fiber fuselage. The lightweight aerodynamic design creates a fast, efficient aircraft or one...

Free Access to Dassault Systèmes’ SOLIDWORKS for EAA Members

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EAA provides members with free access to Dassault Systemes SOLIDWORKS Student Design Kit, which includes: EAA Maker Edition software, MySolidWorks online video tutorials, the MySolidWorks Manufacturing Network, and related training and design resources.

Levil Aviation Adds Data Recorder to Wireless AHRS, GPS, ADS-B Receiver

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With the release of the new iLevil 3 series, Levil Aviation has added yet another feature to wireless AHRS, GPS, ADS-B receivers. The iLevil...

GRT Avionics Announces Instant Upgrade of 6.5-Inch Horizon WS to 7-Inch...

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GRT Avionics makes it easy to upgrade the 6.5-inch Horizon WS to the high-resolution, 7-inch Horizon EX with synthetic vision, enhanced moving map, and...

In Case You Missed It

Baggage Tie-Down Cleats

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By Mike Starkey.

Lady Bug’s Story

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Building a fastback RV-8 and winning a Silver Lindy.

Going Around

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Gallons of ink have been dedicated—with only minor effect—to figuring out what it is...

Metal Magic: Riveting By Squeezing

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Best practices for driving round-head rivets with a squeezer.