Builder Spotlight

Sometimes working alone in your hangar is exactly what you want. But other times a helping hand is called for, and then it helps to know you’re part of a worldwide homebuilding community.

When can an ELSA be used commercially? Can an E/AB aircraft be certificated without a transponder?

Builders share their successes.

For Red Bull racing professionals, reducing the engine weight in their aircraft is serious business. We can learn from their experience.

Garmin’s portable ADS-B receiver is a solid performer, but it does have some competition from other devices when it comes to providing traffic and weather information. By Jeff Van West.

Easy to build, easy to fly...and affordable too. No wonder the Fly Baby remains popular decades after the prototype debuted.

Adding lift to the seat allows a builder to exit his Fly Baby easily (plus it’s virtually undetectable to bystanders).

Just because real roosters don't fly doesn't mean that a 100%-original aircraft designed and painted to resemble one wont.

The EAA’s Homebuilt Aircraft Council (HAC) has expanded to better address this segment’s needs.

Here's what you need to know to get your engine controls—propeller, throttle, mixture, carburetor heat, cabin heat—placed correctly and working properly.