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The "Repeat Offender" epithet isn't really mine. KITPLANES editor Marc Cook bestowed it upon me when I recently advised him that I was building...

I knew it would run eventually; I just didn't know when. I thought that the leaking right fuel tank would slow our RV-10 build...

Spring is upon us, and you’re itching to go fly to an airshow, but fuel prices and travel time are holding you back. There’s...

Two weeks before Sun 'n Fun, Garmin has introduced a new model to its portable GPS lineup, the GPSMAP495. While rumors have been circulating...

One thing I knew would happen this annual: The pesky, albeit very small, exhaust leak that I found at the last oil change would...

Tackling even a quickbuild aircraft kit can be daunting, but now there's a way to get help with at least one type of aircraft, the popular RV series. Synergy Air has scheduled a five-day course titled Quickbuild Strategies based on the Vans quickbuild kit for the RV-7, -8, -9 or -10. The information provided in the course applies to standard kits as well. …

Two weeks before Sun N Fun, Garmin has introduced a new model to its portable GPS lineup, the GPSMAP495. While rumors have been circulating for some time that a successor to the popular 496 was about to be released-with the most common belief that it would have a different form factor than the -96 series and a touch screen-the 495 is more of an addition to the middle of the line rather than an expansion…

The Wright brothers were first with powered flight. But who supplied the power? Without Charlie Taylor, 1903 would have been just another year of...

Lancair International sent us this video of the first flight of the turboprop Evolution, which took place on Friday, March 21. Well-known test pilot...

Was he just contemplating his work, I wondered, as I walked toward my husband, who was sitting catatonic in a green plastic chair in...