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Follow Kitplanes contributors through multi-part stories.

Second Chance Six

As Oshkosh 2025 nears, Tenley rallies support and tackles critical inspection tasks to get RV-6 N2165U flying again.

Building the 750SD XTREME: Part 15

Why is this airplane xtreme?

Eating the Elephant

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!

Building the 750SD XTREME: Part 14

Out of the holding pattern, onto the panel.

Second Chance Six

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

Building the 750SD XTREME: Part 13

Things to do while in the holding pattern.

Second Chance Six

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

Second Chance Six

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

In Case You Missed It

Ask the DAR

Mel Asberry - November 20, 2015 0

Combining parts from multiple kits, N-numbers, using an amphibian for land-only training.

The Dawn Patrol

Dick Starks - August 10, 2010 0

Dick Starks offers some sage advice about how to get back to working on a project that has been sidelined for too long.

Aero ‘lectrics

Jim Weir - January 22, 2016 0

The great ADS-B.

While builder Wolfgang Meyn loved the F-1 Rocket quickbuild kit, things got a little more complicated (and exciting) when he decided to add an Aero Supercharger Solutions supercharger teamed up with a modified Airflow Performance fuel-injection system; by Ed Wischmeyer.

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Build Series

Second Chance Six

Eating the Elephant—Part 2

Second Chance Six

Building the 750SD XTREME: Part 15

Eating the Elephant

Building the 750SD XTREME: Part 14

Second Chance Six

Building the 750SD XTREME: Part 13

Second Chance Six

Second Chance Six

In Case You Missed It

Ask the DAR

The Dawn Patrol

Aero ‘lectrics

Supercharged F-1 Rocket