Van’s Updates Kit Pricing and Ordering Policies
Van’s Aircraft will be raising kit prices approximately 32%—the result of an intensive internal assessment and cost review.
Aircraft Spruce Introduces LED Cockpit Lights
Featuring 110 angle adjustment, the new 754 series LED Cockpit Lights can rotate 360 around. According to Aircraft Spruce, the lights mount in a 1/4-inch hole, and are 3/4-inch diameter by 1 5/8-inch tall fully extended. Both 14- and 28-volt models are available. What's more, you can order them as all one color for $49.85 per light, or with two circuits (one white, one red) for $52.75. Two body colors are available; aluminum or black. A…
Just a Little Squeeze
The horizontal stabilizer on our F1 Rocket (like most RV-type aircraft) has a very thin profile—a symmetric airfoil with a finely pointed nose. Getting...
New CAMit 127-hp engine at AirVenture
Heart of America Aviation is displaying the new CAMit 3300 127-hp aircraft engine in Booth 4069 of Building D at AirVenture. Along with the...
Old Pilot’s Camper Journal #3 – Sun ‘n Fun 2023 Edition
Camping at a fly-in is an experience of all of the senses, the pastel sunrise you see when you unzip the door of your...
Saying Goodbye
For those of us afflicted with Vascular Avgaseritis, AirVenture is a near spiritual experience. The collective aura of tens of thousands of our own...
Fernandez Zenith Cruzer
This is actually my third attempt at an experimental. Three others started, but life kept getting in the way. After retiring from a 25-year...
Biplane Gold
Surprising absolutely no one, Andrew Buehler started first, immediately began lapping nearly everyone and finished first in today's Biplane Gold race. Flying Phantom, the...
Paul Dye's SubSonex N958PD: Successful First Flight
SubSonex Serial #21 (N958PD) made its first flight out of the Dayton Valley Airpark in Nevada on the 24th of March, 2019. Winter kept...
GAMA Opens 2020 Aviation Design Challenge
The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) opened registration for next year’s Aviation Design Challenge on Monday. The annual competition, which is designed to promote...
















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