Louise Hose
Louise Hose is an instrument-rated, commercial pilot who regularly flies her RV-6, her husband’s RV-8, and an RV-3B and a Dream Tundra, which they built together. They live in Dayton Valley Airpark in Nevada. She also edits the monthly, free digital newsletter, The Homebuilder’s Portal by KITPLANES®.
Buying Your First Homebuilt Aircraft
Building isn't the only path to owning an Experimental aircraft.
More Numbers
Dennis Hasha, Homebuilder Headquarters Registration Chair told KITPLANES that 1031 homebuilt aircraft had flown in and registered at AirVenture as of noon today. A...
Liberty
One RV that draws the attention of every AirVenture passerby is "Liberty" with a spectacular paint job that pays tribute to all branches of...
Spectator Day
Most of the homebuilts that made up the record-setting attendance in Homebuilt Camping and Parking earlier in the week have left the field and...
Hypoxia
The FAA Aviation Physiology group came to AirVenture with a very cool new "experiential" teaching device---a normobaric hypoxia training chamber. Every half-hour from 9...
The Experimental Wright “B”Flyer
It always takes awhile for me to find my way south to the Vintage Aircraft area at AirVenture but I'm never disappointed. This year,...
The Mighty Micro Mong Rocket Floats Again
The first plane my homebuilder's eye noticed when I entered the AirVenture Seaplane Base today was John "Snaps" Knapp's Micro Mong Rocket tied up...
Kicking Back at the AirVenture Seaplane Base
Perhaps nothing is as cathartic after a few days of dodging AirVenture golf carts, trying to carry on conversations in between T-6 passes, and...
It’s an AirVenture Wedding For Kitplanes Writer!
KITPLANES writer Katie Bosman (Fix these broken wings!, November 2014) and her long-time boyfriend, Ben Krotje gathered about 40 close friends and family to...
Panther Folding Wing Demos
The folks at the Panther site in the outdoor home built area are giving wing folding demonstrations twice a day. The little single-seat kitplane...
In Case You Missed It
Van’s RV-12
In typical fashion, Van’s Aircraft refused to rest on its laurels after the RV-12’s prototype debut last year, and sought to improve on an already good design. The new production airplane has changed (beyond its color), with a castering nosewheel, toe brakes instead of a grip, reshaped control sticks for better clearance, ground-adjustable seats fore and aft as well as in tilt, and the list goes on. Best of all, this day/VFR machine is still a delight to fly; by Ed Kolano.
