Magazine

As everyone moves toward electronic instrumentation, the alternator is taking on a more and more important role. Alternators and their indispensable partners, voltage regulators,...

With all of the ways to get GPS information into the cockpit, a handheld unit remains a viable option. By Stein Bruch.

DAR Mel Asberry answers questions from readers about approval of new 51% kits and what happens if the rules change, plus finding an experienced flight advisor for your project.

Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha.

There comes a time, fairly early in the kit-building process, where if a builder is constructing an aircraft to be flown with a stick...

Do not use the engine compartment as a source of fresh air or heat, as there is the potential for carbon monoxide poisoning.

The inventive Mr. To. By Dean Sigler.

Marc Cook explains the nuts-and-bolts of how we achieve the aerial photography that appears in the magazine, and offers a few pointers on how to capture your own plane in flight.

Pilots operating handbook, the most common builder error, and adding vortex generators.

Accelerate, pull and fly-thats not all there is to the takeoff. Barnaby Wainfan takes a second-by-second look at the aerodynamics of the takeoff: when it works, and when it doesn't.