![[Credit: Lisa Credit]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Experimental.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "Have You Seen Your Oplims?")
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![[Credit: Lisa Turner]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Chute-Topaz-Gigapixel-2x-scale.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "Should You Consider A Whole Aircraft Parachute?"){kind=tracking}
Murphy and the Flight That Almost Wasn’t
Most of us fly airplanes for fun. I would even venture to say that all KITPLANES® readers understand the fun side of aviation, especially...
Dating Your Docs & Paint Touch-Up
I’ve been reading recently through a collection of builder log segments with various descriptions of how the builders notated on their paper plans that...
Archive: August 2012
Our cover story for the August 2012 issue was a special one closely and personally followed by then Senior Editor Paul Dye. None other...
Bored No More
In a story full of admissions, I must start by confessing I had been thinking of ways to not fly the same old hour...
Broken Tailwheel Chain Link
Tailwheels and their associated linkage should be carefully preflighted. Here’s a partially broken tailwheel chain link that has the potential to cause a complete...
A Pea Sea Bored?
Text and phonetically, yes. But if you will sit down, fasten your seat belt tight and just hold on, I will show you how...
The Personalized Grip
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...
What Are the Odds?
My first winter in Oregon came and went. The weather’s been fairly nice leading into spring, or at least my surroundings look just as...
Prop Blade Effects
We often treat the propeller as a uniform “actuator disc” and the slipstream as a uniform stream tube of accelerated and swirling air. While...
In Case You Missed It
The Dawn Patrol
Dick Starks and the members of The Kansas City Dawn Patrol head out to take part in the Annual Salute to Veterans Airshow in Columbia, Missouri.
Archive: April 1998
On our April 1998 cover was the sleek, motorglider-esque Europa. Actually, not just one...