![[Credit: McFarlane Alaska]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/McFarlane_tailwheel.jpg?w=534&h=462&crop=1 "McFarlane Alaska Absorbs Backcountry Favorite T3 Tailwheel")
![[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”")
![Making rare use of my drafting tools for the internal timing. [All Images Credited to Andrew Robinson]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/P1010535.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "Conquering the Magneto, Part 2")
Garmin’s virtual Sun ‘n Fun experience with aviation webinars
With the cancellation of several marquee aviation events, Garmin is bringing an educational line-up of webinars to its customers. Ranging from an overview of...
The Virtual Fly-In
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures, and in these days of social isolation from COVID-19, aviators who still want to congregate for community support...
My New Toy: Rhino Label Maker
I’ve been accused of being interested in building and maintaining airplanes and motorcycles as cover for a bad case of tool want. From the...
Sun ‘n Fun Postponed Until 2021
The 46th annual Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo will not take place this year due to efforts to contain the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Instead,...
Virtually There: Zenith Takes Next Builder Workshop Online
Instead of canceling an upcoming builder workshop, kit manufacturer Zenith Aircraft has turned it into a virtual affair. Zenith has been running a hands-on...
Ride the Wave!
Oh, for a sailplane on a day like today! I took off on a short after-breakfast flight to do a little post-maintenance test hop....
Kit-Aircraft Manufacturers: Okay So Far (UPDATED)
Many small manufacturers have been able to stay open with a combination of work-from-home employees, reconfigured manufacturing, and other tweaks.
AirVenture Go/No Go Decision Can Wait Until May
Jack Pelton, the Experimental Aircraft Association’s CEO and chairman, confirmed earlier reporting that this July’s AirVenture is still considered a go, and the next “decision point”...
What the Airshow Schedule Looks Like—For Now
The novel coronavirus pandemic is moving so fast it’s hard for anyone to keep up in real time, much less for armchair prognosticators or...
Flying in the Age of COVID-19
My wife and I just returned from a week-long trip to Colorado’s ski country and experienced the current airline travel system first-hand. (No, we...
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