Poker Run, For Fun

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Not everything here at KITPLANES has to be serious news, you know. Here’s some footage of me and my boyfriend, Brian Hickman, flying his...

Solo To AirVenture

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This summer I turned 38, and to celebrate another year of living my best airplane nerd life, I received a book about backcountry flying...

Top Gun Slinger

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One of the best things about going out to visit kit companies—aside from the airplanes of course—is meeting the people that make up our...

High Wing Sling on Safari

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Our man Paul Dye is in South Africa this week flying the all-new Sling High Wing airplane. The company has pulled out all the...

First Impressions of the Sling High Wing

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Our man Paul Dye is in South Africa this week flying the all-new Sling High Wing airplane. The company has pulled out all the...

Sling Aircraft Tour: Keeping the Pipeline Flowing

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Our man Paul Dye is in South Africa this week flying the all-new Sling High Wing airplane. The company has pulled out all the...

Trust Your Hunches

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I’ve been spending enough time around the GlaStar lately—and taking every moment of good weather here in Oregon to actually fly it—that subtle changes...

Lathe Bauble

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You do NOT need a machine shop, lathe, or mill to build any kit aircraft, but...

Something Doesn’t Look Right

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Look ma’ no eyebrow cooling holes! The electric Xenos project rolls on, and forces one to rethink what we hold to be conventional. Most air-cooled...

In Search of the Perfect (Oil) Temperature

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One of the many decisions presented during the swap from my old O-320 to the new, more powerful Titan IO-340 in my GlaStar was...

In Case You Missed It

Kit Stuff

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Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha.

2020 Propeller Buyer’s Guide

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Finding the right prop.

Flight Review: Buena Venterra

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What kind of performance can you get from a turbocharged Rotax 914 engine on the nose of a RANS S-19 airframe? Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook finds out.

2014 Engine Buyer’s Guide

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Conventional engines—purpose-built for flight.