![[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")
Van’s Aircraft Teases Next Design
Van’s Aircraft teased the very broad outlines of the RV-15, a much rumored, next-generation RV kit aircraft.
Resurrected Helicycle Appears at AirVenture
The Helicycle is back and a New Mexico company is selling kits.
A Nautical Perspective
One of the most amazing things about AirVenture is simply how bigger-than-life it all is. It is always interesting to watch folks come up...
AirVenture Revival Arrival
This year’s VFR Arrival Procedures were justly revised, although not confusingly so, after 2019’s Black Sunday debacle when two day’s worth of airplanes tried...
Meet the Author… and buy a Book
Editor-at-Large Paul Dye will be selling a limited supply of his book, Shuttle, Houston: My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control, at...
JK-2 Nano Gyrocopter Debuts at AirVenture
Fusion Copters of Warsaw, Poland debuted its single seat carbon fiber gyroplane at AirVenture this year. Midwest distributor, Jeffrey Boyd, is displaying the sleek...
A Blazin’ Paint Job
Brian Eldridge first flew his newly completed RV-8 just last February. His arrival today at AirVenture was, to say the least, colorful. Not only...
Homebuilt Parking and Camping Numbers Beating Records Early On
Last night again set a new record for Homebuilt airplanes tied down in HBP and HBC…253 in camping and 178 in parking making a...
Open For Business
One of the much appreciated changes at AirVenture this year is the weekend opening of food services on the field. A long-standing problem for...
LaSures Has Closed
Say it ain’t so. LaSures restaurant, THE place to meet for breakfast, has closed.
Tears are streaking down the chubby cheeks of countless homebuilt campers...
In Case You Missed It
Old, New & Old Again!
We are seeing more talk of people rebuilding cores found in barns or the back of hangars.
Archive: February 1999
Our February 1999 issue teased a summer’s worth of aeronautical splash-n-dash with a “Water-Flying...
Orphan Part Angel
The Glasair static port design has a beveled segment that bisects the centerline of the port. This adds more than a minor complication to the machining process.
