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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.
Eating the Elephant—Part 2
One step forward, two steps back
Second Chance Six
Part 14: To fix or not to fix?
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!
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Pick a plane, any plane-an overview of kit and plansbuilt fixed-wing aircraft and rotorcraft. Introduction Directory compiled by Omar Filipovic.