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.
A Celebration of KRs
I have to admit that the KR has never really had a prominent spot on my radar. Certainly not for any negative reason. Mostly,...
Chris Pryce’s “KR-2S ish”
The Rand-Robinson KR series turns 50 in 2022 and to celebrate KITPLANES has met up with a couple of KR builders and owners to...
Meet KR2-S Owner John Bouyea
Continuing our celebration of 50 years of the KR, we walk around a very special KR-2S built by Roy Marsh and under the current...
AeroLEDs Equinox Vs. the 4509 Landing Light
Does the latest LED technology beat up on the ancient 4509 landing light for Experimental aircraft? You bet it does. Here's KITPLANES editor in...
uAvionix Announces Remote Magnetometer
Since the beginning, the uAvionix AV-30 mini EFIS has had an internal magnetometer—the device used to sense magnetic north and help create a heading...
Comp Air Previews Model 6.2 for AirVenture
Comp Air's Michael Ryan and Ron Lueck discuss the new Comp Air 6.2 six-place, high wing kitbuilt to make its formal debut at AirVenture...
Dispatches from Florida
There was a time when we had multiple airshows and events in a year that had at their center (or near to it) Experimental...
Fueled Again
Not a moment after sending our April issue to the press, my editorial “Avgas Next Steps” became partially obsolete. In it, I said that...
A Visit With Glasair Aviation
I had a reason to fly up to Arlington, Washington, to see the current state of affairs at Glasair Aviation. As you might remember,...
In Case You Missed It
ViperJet Redux
Before you think to yourself, "I couldn't afford that, let alone fly it" relax a little and let your imagination run wild. The ViperJet offers glove leather interior, rosewood inlay, and performance to spare. Doug Rozendaal completes the picture.
A New Rating and a New Windshield
At the beginning of 2018 I set a couple of goals for myself, and...
Unusual Attitude
On his way home from an unexceptional summer jaunt, author Bill Repucci got a most exceptional call from the tower.
Becoming a DAR
A designee is a private individual with the experience and skills necessary to do the work mandated for the FAA.