Marc Cook
Marc Cook is a veteran special-interest journalist who started as a staffer at AOPA Pilot in the late 1980s. Marc has built two airplanes, an Aero Designs Pulsar XP and a Glasair Aviation Sportsman, and now owns a 180-hp, recently modernized GlaStar based in western Oregon. Marc has 5000 hours spread over 200-plus types and four decades of flying.
WAT Introduces New Dual-Mode Landing Light
Whelen Aerspace Technologies (WAT) introduced a new dual-mode landing light at AirVenture 2022. Called the Parmetheus Duo, the 12-volt, PAR 36-sized light has both...
Caught in the Act
We’ve been working on the development story of the Van’s RV-15 for many months. Paul Dye and I had what I would call exceptional...
TurbAero Update from AirVenture 2022
KITPLANES checked in with TurbAero's Bernie Breen on the development of the company's 200-hp turbine engine for homebuilts. A partially built Van's RV-7A (renamed...
CubCrafters Goes Public
CubCrafters, privately owned for 40 years, announced at AirVenture that it was applying for qualification to launch an initial public offering “in the coming...
Van’s RV-15 Breaks Cover at AirVenture
Monday morning the Van's RV-15 was brought across the field to take its place in the front of the Van's booth. Naturally, crowds descended...
Joining the Mass Arrival
This morning our web guru, Omar Filipovic, and I made the trek from our overnight stage in Madison to the Big Show in Oshkosh...
Upper-Left Coasters Head to OSH
Marc and Omar bring the Glastar from Oregon toward Oshkosh. Tonight's stay is Aberdeen, SD, on the way to Madison, WI. There, they will...
Second Time Charm
There’s no other way but to admit that I found dozens of reasons to put this project off. By finally tackling it, though, I...
Van’s Reveals RV-15 Engineering Test Prototype
Van's Aircraft's much anticipated high-wing, backcountry-capable RV-15 broke cover over the weekend when photos taken during the airplane's Phase I testing near Van's Aurora,...
Pioneer Grips New Finish
Pioneer Grips was started by Guy George but was taken over by new owners late last year, and now the company is ramping up...
In Case You Missed It
The Big Toot
The Big Toot Tommy Meyer built is not the two-seat biplane his father envisioned....
Reverse Engineering a Glasair Tailwheel
One day last summer, seconds after rolling from the hold short line to depart...
