![[Credit: Van's Aircraft]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG_5238.jpg?w=534&h=462&crop=1 "Part 22 Gets Real: Van’s Delivers the First MOSAIC-Certified Airplane")
![Backcountry manners intact: the ULT sits on a grass strip with the turbine spun up, built on the STOL-capable Carbon Cub UL airframe. [Credit: CubCrafters]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-20-at-11.12.13-AM.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "The New Jetprop Carbon Cub")
![[All images credited to Mike Davenport]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/DSC_6716.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "Glasair Sportsman 2+2, Part Two")
![Dragging it in low and slow for the STOL competition. [Credit: Andrew Robinson]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/SnF_dragging_in.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "Sun ’n Fun 2026 Recap: Avionics Upgrades, Thorp Kits, and STOL Action")
![[Credit: McFarlane Alaska]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/McFarlane_tailwheel.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "McFarlane Alaska Absorbs Backcountry Favorite T3 Tailwheel")
Saberwing
I met Bill Clapp and his wife Kyoung of Azalea Aviation today on the flightline at OSH. They were showing their newly designed kit...
What is it?
This aircraft was designed in 1962 to set speed records for 500-kilogram airplanes. Powered by a 100-hp Continental O-200A, the pusher configuration was used...
Panther Folding Wing Demos
The folks at the Panther site in the outdoor home built area are giving wing folding demonstrations twice a day. The little single-seat kitplane...
Goodyear Zeppelin Buzzes Camp Scholler
There we were, recently collapsed into a camp chair, not to mention a strawberry-walnut-blue cheese-and-tomato salad (Californians don't you know), when Goodyear's newest, the...
Bede BD-6 Re-introduced
Jim Bede may have recently passed away, but Jim Bede Jr. continues the family company. In fact, Bedecorp is reintroducing the BD-6 with several...
Astronaut’s Long-EZ Displayed Near Homebuilder HQ
When Jim Voss misses an AirVenture, he has a good reason. Even while serving on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001, he gave...
Pitts 70th at Air Venture
Long before there were kits, composites or even much in the way of plans there was Curtis Pitts. Marshalling the best of Greatest Generation...
Garmin Provides Hands-on Display of Avionics
The new Garmin tent near Boeing Plaza provides pilots with plenty of opportunity to play with their powered-up avionics. Expanded from previous years, the...
EAA's Give Flight Initiative
The EAA's Give Flight goal for this week is to build five wing sets (one Sonex Waiex, one Van's RV-12, one Zenith CH 650,...
Pigeon-Toeing a Hummelbird
Although running past to another event, we couldn't resist a flirting look at Pete Zutrauen's impossibly small, low and high-visibility Hummelbird. The VW-powered, all-metal...
In Case You Missed It
Some Old Favorites
For those building a new airplane, chances are you’re getting more than familiar with...
Safety is No Accident: Avid and Kitfox
This month Ron Wanttaja looks at two similar designs, Avid and Kitfox, which have some major distinctions when it comes to the accident numbers.
What’s New
This months column includes information on new anti-collision strobe lights and LED position lights, a micro belt sander, a smart servo controller for trim, a desktop model of the Cozy Mark IV and the announcement of a taildragger configuration option for the Eurofox SLSA.
Spare the Wait and Carry On
What began, for one homebuilder, as a cross-country odyssey to AirVenture turned into an...