Steve Ashby
Steve Ashby is a sometime lawyer and full-time aviation aficionado from Atlanta, Georgia. He learned to fly in 1980 and has adopted a 1968 Skyhawk (your Grandma could fly it). Steve is also working on a Van's RV-8A which he swears will be completed on (a) Thursday.
Badlands Ultralight Grows a Nose Wheel
This year, Badland unveils two major developments, a nose wheel and carbon fiber ribs.
Aircraft Specialty Flightlines Brings Three New Smart Components to AirVenture
Aircraft Specialty Flightlines, an AirVenture Veteran, has been innovating safer, more capable and easier to use components for experimental amateur aircraft builders for years.
Honey I Shrunk The Schweizer 300!
Imagine your surprise to walk the grounds of the AirVenture Ultralight field to see what appears to be an 80% scale Schweizer 300 parked right there among the ultralights and powered parachutes.
Happy To Be Here Club Meets at Van’s AirVenture Banquet
With Van's reorganization and its emergence from bankruptcy, the AirVenture Banquet became more of a celebration of life than a rubber chicken rehash of sales statistics from the year gone by.
Legacy BD-4C Design Sold To SureWings
A BD-4C builder and fan, Attila Gahbro, bought the kit business and has plans for major enhancements.
DUC Propellers Rolls Out Tiger 3
A new prop specially designed to handle the power range from a Rotax 912 through 916.
Cicaré 8 Kit Helicopter Debuts at AirVenture
It’s new, it's beautiful, and, as it turns out, it is a kit which can be completed in 200 hours, or even faster at a Cicaré builder assist facility.
Vic’s New Helo
As readers may recall, Kitplanes Contributing Editor Vic Syracuse built and flew a four place helicopter to AirVenture in 2023. Upon returning home to...
Future Builders
Pilot Zoey Foster (age 6) takes the lead in her Pedal Power RV. Little brother Riley (age 2) flies her wing in a T-6....
Forty-Year-Old Ultralight Still Flying At AirVenture
At the 1993 EAA annual convention (long before they called it AirVenture) a young dreamer walked the ultralight grounds with hopes of someday building...
In Case You Missed It
Vacuuming Connectors
Vacuum electrical connectors before installation to avoid difficult troubleshooting later.
Remember When: The BD-5 Micro
The BD-5's reputation precedes it: long in development, company bankruptcy, investor losses, challenging to fly, early accidents. With an introduction like that, who would think this micro plane would be such a positively straightforward blast to fly?
Archive: February 2014
A decade ago, we highlighted the almost bewildering array of WW-I replicas made by Airdrome Aeroplanes.
