Builder Spotlight

If you're contemplating buying a used homebuilt, consider the mission, find a mentor, review the logbooks and, most importantly, take your time. By Marc Cook.

While composite props are making inroads, the century-old technology of wood more than holds its own. By Paul Bertorelli.

If you can build an aircraft, you can easily make your own tools.

Luxury and efficiency join elegantly in this unique blend of twin engines and canard airframe.

Dave Prizio and team build a paint booth (too small), test drive charcoal masks and bunny suits, and discover the joys of covering your homebuilt plane with $400 per gallon paint.

A traditional flight test technique for determining Vx and Vy.

Finding the finish line in this Garmin G3X Touch upgrade.

Ready to perform aerobatics with your new homebuilt? Not so fast! The operating limitations dictate what's required first.

Things I like, things I don’t and things I’d do differently.

The big truck bringing Dave Prizio’s Texas Sport Cub arrives, and the inventory and painting processes begin.