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With 4000 kits sold, a million hours flown and a loyal customer base, you just knew that the Kitfox would somehow find itself back in production. It's been out after the previous company, SkyStar Aircraft, went bankrupt in 2005, leaving builders in the lurch.

Now the exceedingly popular and extraordinarily useful 11-part Build YourSkills: Metal Series is available as a single PDF. This must-have additionto your library was written by RV-7 builder Dan Checkoway and carefullyillustrated for first-time metal-workers and old hands alike. Mosteverything you need to now, from material handling and cutting to deburring,drilling and riveting is in this series.

Mating a prop to an engine requires more than a big wrench and some safety wire. Follow along on a real propeller vibration test.

Welcome to the first of what we expect to be many web-based updates on KITPLANES big project for the year, the construction of a...

How to meld with metal and bash rivets without blood or tears; by Dan Checkoway.

Tackling weight-and-balance calculations is a task we have all faced with some trepidation, but it is so vital, so important, so fundamental to flight...

An RV builder begins our journey through the gritty details of working with metal.

Sonex Designer John Monnett returns to the motorglider scene with the two-place Xenos.

Part 4 of 8: Installing Controls

by Ralph Taggart Most sport gyroplanes aren't beautiful or even cute, but there is no denying that they have a certain magnetic appeal. If you...