Contributors

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Ron AlexanderOur popular Build Your Skills: Fabric series comes to a close with the final steps just before painting. Because the paint process itself...

Archive: October 2000

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Our October 2000 issue featured the Stolp Starduster Too, a huge section on readers who had completed their airplanes and a closer look at...

Archive: October 1996

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Our cover subject for the October 1996 issue was Bobby Cox’s highly modified Pitts S-1 plansbuilt that had won Grand Champion Plansbuilt at Sun...

Letters

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Survey ResultsEarlier this year, we asked our readers to tell us what they thought about KITPLANES and how we cover the Experimental/Amateur-Built aircraft world....

Archive: September 1997

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The rakish, T-tail Ban-Bi homebuilt was on our September 1997 cover, teased as “French Curves & Carbon.” Designed by Michel Colomban, father of the...

Letters

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Deforestation Explained I just went online and re-subscribed (belatedly) to KITPLANES....

Kit Stuff

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Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha.

Letters

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Sharing with OthersWhat a ride we got reading Michael Robinson's "Aeronautical Decision Making" . He had me on the edge of my sofa. I'm...

Letters

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Torque Plates UpdateAfter being flabbergasted by the high price of Lycoming torque plates (several hundred dollars each) and making a few of my...

Letters

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Hummel We Go Along I just received the January 2009, KITPLANES and was surprised to see that Hummel Aviation was not included in the...

In Case You Missed It

Loose!

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Loose alternate air door.

In-Flight Weather: Practice for Survival

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This was going to get ugly. Crossing southern Louisiana in the middle of the afternoon...

The “Flying by Feel” Fallacy

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Smart pilots embrace tools like AoA systems to reduce risk—not ego-driven notions of flying solely 'by feel.'

Front Seat in a Pietenpol

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Low, slow, and good for the soul.