![[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")
TQ-Group Introduces Avionics Product Range at AirVenture
The technology company TQ-Group, which has established a reputation as a meeting the highest quality in engineering and precision products, is debuting two of...
RANS S-21
The long awaited RANS S-21 Outbound is finally here. It features all-metal construction with match-hole drilled skins and pull rivets throughout. The main structure...
One Week Wonder – Day 2 – Riveting Opened to Everyone
The wing structures were completed and skins tacked on by mid-day, allowing AirVenture visitors to walk up to the One Week Wonder pavilion, pull...
Van's Banquet
If it's Tuesday night at AirVenture, it must be the Van's Aircraft Banquet night. A couple hundred RV builders, owners, vendors, and wannabes gathered...
Experimental Maule?
One of the inherent pleasures of OSH are the little gems, rarities, and curiosities that one can stumble upon. One of those present this...
Match the holes and the wings are done!
A neat activity to watch or participate in is the "One Week Wonder". This year the aircraft of choice is the Vans RV-12, a...
The Numbers Don't Explain the Chaos
The chaos of this year's arrivals last weekend has folks asking why. One piece of information we can add to the discussion is that...
Desser Tundra 31" tires
Desser Tires, the recap people, has just introduced a 31-on how tundra tire to compete with Alaska Bushwheels. Desser says their tire and wheel...
RANS S-20 LSM
RANS Design Inc. has brought their new S-20 LSM to AirVenture. It is much like the more familiar S-20 that came out some four...
One Week Wonder Day 1–The Race (Against the Clock) Begins
We are building an RV-12iS this week. Not just working on an RV-12 build but literally building a complete plane this week. And, what...
In Case You Missed It
Checkpoints: Condition Inspections
I promised I would cover condition inspections in a future article, and having just...
Evaluating a Used Engine
How do you decide, without taking an engine completely apart, whether or not it will give you at least several years of good service?
Ask the DAR
DAR Mel Asberry answers questions about when you need A&P signoff, re-certifying an airplane to make it an LSA (hint: cant be done) and pre-registration of an Experimental.