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.
Two Weeks to Taxi
Welcome to the first of what we expect to be many web-based updates on KITPLANES big project for the year, the construction of a...
KITPLANES’ New Airplane: The 18-Day Sportsman 2+2.
Welcome to the first of what we expect to be many web-based updates on KITPLANES big project for the year, the construction of a GlaStar Sportsman 2+2, N30KP, that will be both a traveling tool for the staff and a testbed for new equipment and technologies in the future. Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook picks up the story: …
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Here’s something new for me. Until my recently acquired GlaStar, I have never owned...
Power, Scotty, I Gotta Have More Power
“I canna give ye more, Cap’n. The dilithium crystals are already overloaded.”
—Star Trek
This month’s...
The Life of a Kit Airplane Factory Pilot
Roger Dubbert has worked for Zenith Aircraft Company since 1993 and has flown over 10,000 demo flights.