![[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")
One Week Wonder – Day 6 – Engine Start!
When I walked in Saturday morning, it was clear that the Van's crew had reached a point that gave them confidence that the One...
Dark Aero 1
First time exhibitors, Dark Aero is three brothers with an engineering bent and a promising kit plane in the works. Called Dark Aero 1,...
RADIANT Introduces New Gauges
RADIANT Technology released several new products during AirVenture.
4 channel Engine Temperature Gauge, which gives the pilot a continuous display of 4 CHT or 4...
Authentic Sopwith & Gnome
If you've had the rare chance to closely examine a World War I aircraft it soon became obvious why so few early warbirds have...
Rosie Makes Her Appearance!
A surprise appearance of a real "Rosie the Riveter" highlighted the day at the One Week Wonder today. "Rosie", reported to be 94 years...
Garmin releases updates for TXi flight displays, GTN navigators, GFC autopilots...
Garmin announced it's adding significant capability, more configuration options and offering greater integration throughout the GTN™ 650/750 touchscreen navigators, the G500 TXi/G600 TXi and...
Jack and the Bally Bomber
In a prominent location of the Homebuilt Camping area you'll discover a truly one of a kind experimental aircraft: a 1/3 scale of the...
Zenith Trailer Kit
Zenith, the popular airplane kit company, is testing the waters for interest in what would be a travel trailer kit to be made with...
Whispering Again
Delbert Sinor of Ozark Mountain Aviation gave us the latest on the Whisper, a 2-place side-by-side kit from South Africa. Sinor offers a builder...
One Week Wonder – Day 4 – 90% Done, 90%...
The One Week Wonder began to look like a real airplane on Thursday. The cabin and tail cone have been mated, the vertical stabilator...
In Case You Missed It
The Repairman Certificate
Those of us who have built or are building Experimental/Amateur-Built aircraft know that one...
![[Credit: AdobeStock]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/AdobeStock_262642207_AGCuesta.jpg?w=324&h=160&crop=1 "Winging It")
Winging It
Sometimes an aircraft feature matters a great deal, and sometimes the air simply doesn't care one way or the other.