Build Series

Follow Kitplanes contributors through multi-part stories.

One step forward, two steps back

Part 14: To fix or not to fix?

Why is this airplane xtreme?

One person can’t imagine eating a whole elephant. It’s simply impossible. But the answer to the idiomatic question remains: one bite at a time!

Out of the holding pattern, onto the panel.

Part 13: Assessing the ailerons, learning the lathe and plotting the wiring.

Things to do while in the holding pattern.

Part 12: Final painted parts, installing wings and things, autopilot servos.

Part 11: Starting to wire my Advanced Flight Systems panel, installing a new fuel selector and more!

Part 10: small, important projects— brake lines, fuel lines, baffling and fairings.

Amy White - March 6, 2023 6

Will weeks of A&P school make you a better builder?

Jim Weir - August 21, 2014 0

Headset tester à la Ferrari.

Karl Storjohann - March 20, 2014 2

Low and slow, even in the wind. By Karl Storjohann.

Dean Sigler - August 21, 2013 0

The greenest flight of all. By Dean Sigler.