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.
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Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook reflects on the past years celebration of KITPLANES first quarter century, and finds that predictions for the next 25 years don't come easily.
The FAA Publishes “51% Rule” Committee Findings, But Not Final Rule
The FAA has published the final report from the Amateur-Built Aircraft Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) that was re-formed in 2008 to take another shot...
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Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook saw some reasons to be cheerful at AirVenture, especially the upcoming refinement of the 51% rule for homebuilders.
Avionics Special: Construction Zone
Marc Cook succumbs to the siren song of the Garmin G3X, and clears the flight deck for an avionics upgrade.
Fritz Jabiru Flies!
KITPLANES Senior Editor Bob Fritz celebrated the first flight of his Jabiru J250 last week. Regular readers will be familiar with Bob’s project from...
Clinks, Clunks, Tinks & Turns
Marc Cook explodes the not-invented-here myth, and explores what makes our panel equipment ergonomically sound—or not.
25th Anniversary: Engine Monitoring Comes of Age
Whats happening behind that firewall? Marc Cook traces the lineage of engine monitors over the past 25 years.
Product Minute: Brightline Bags Flight Bag
Kitplanes Magazine editor Marc Cook has an eye for quality and he likes what he sees in the Brightline Bags modular flight bag.
Product Minute: Garmin G3X
Garmin rolled out the G3X budget EFIS for the light sport and experimental aircraft crowd. Kitplanes' Marc Cook gives us an inside look.
Glasair Sportsman: 360 vs. 390
If you're building a Glasair Sportsman, you have the choice of a 180-HP IO-360 or the beefier IO-390. Marc Cook analyzes the pros and cons.
In Case You Missed It
To Launch a Light Sport
It’s amazing what a little light will reveal, in this case a planned hole for the wing that would have been dangerously close to the wingspar. No worries. The problem was remedied, and it was on to fixing flaws in the wing’s surface and working on the nosewheel and front suspension; by Bob Fritz.
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Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook comments on how recent software enhancements improve the performance of the Grand Rapids Technologies Horizon HX EFIS.