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![[Credit: FAA]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FAA-Mosaic-1.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "MOSAIC Isn’t a Question of Can You—But Why You’d Build")
![[Credit: EAA]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/vintage-in-review-herb-clark.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "Vintage in Review Returns to Oshkosh: Five Days, Five Stories, and a Living OX-5")
![[Credit: Zenith Aircraft Company]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/31142685469.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "Zenith Throws Open Its Doors for “Fly-In to Summer”")
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Dynon at Sun ‘n Fun 2021, Real and Virtually
KITPLANES' avionics editor Larry Anglisano caught up with Dynon's Michael Schofield on the company's plans for both in-person and virtual booth displays around Sun...
Old Pilot’s Camper Journal Day 3
For old pilot campers like myself camp food is an important matter. Like our non-camping old people brethren, old campers have lunch together and...
Aerolite 103 Goes All Electric
The Aerolite 103 has long been one of the leading truly legal (part 103 in the U.S.) ultralights on the scene. Pilots have been...
Vic Babyak Solves Cooling Issues With Creative Baffling Design
Cylinders 1 and 3 where running about 30°F hotter than the left bank, cylinders 2 and 4.
Old Pilot’s Camper Journal Day 2
Jim arrived at the campground in his Tundra truck on Monday, the day before the show is scheduled to begin. He missed the camper’s...
New Light Aircraft From Czech Republic To Seek 51% Kit Status
American shores have been blessed with a number of innovative and sleek light plane designs from the Czech Republic thanks to the bankruptcy and...
Kolb Aircraft Reports a Two-Year Delay in Delivering New Orders
Kolb Aircraft principal Bryan Melborn reports that the company is not currently taking any orders for new aircraft kits for a period anticipated to...
Old Pilot’s Camper Journal
Waking up at 4:30 a.m. is generally difficult. That is, unless it is the night before Sun 'n Fun getaway day. I remember the...
Van’s Aircraft on Current Demand and Quickbuild Kits
KITPLANES editor in chief Marc Cook talks to Van's Greg Hughes and Rian Johnson about the state of their business (good) and the steps...
FAA Previews Task-Based Testing for Experimentals
Here you thought the existing Phase I flight-test rules were set in stone. Maybe not so much. The EAA, saying a proposed set of...
In Case You Missed It
Blade Inflow Angle
As the propeller moves through the air, each point on the blade follows a helical path.
