![[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")
Smoke and Haze
It is the time of year out west that brings fires - lots of fires. The forests and mountains of the west are part...
Not – So Great Wall of the Pine Nuts
Just south of our airpark in Dayton, Nevada, we have a small north-south range of mountains known as the Pine Nuts. Topping out in...
BD-Micro – Helping People Perfect the BD-5
We recently got a chance to drop in on "Skeeter" and "Richard" Karnes – the principals of BD-Micro of Siletz, Oregon. BD-Micro is a...
Trying and Flying the Avidyne IFD
For many years now, having an IFR-capable navigator has meant installing and using a Garmin GNS 430, 530, or their WAAS versions that end...
Kneeboard Notes
One of the frustrating things about editing a print magazine is the long lead-time required to bring ideas from the field into the actual...
Vote For the Best Camping Photo
What's more fun than airplane camping? Let us know which photo you like best and the winner will receive a $25 gift certificate from...
Drane Arion Lightning N621WV
I finished my Arion Lightning in June 2011. It is equipped with a Dynon D60, Garmin radio and transponder, and Grand Rapids EIS. The...
Meyer SuperSport Kitfox N43KF
I got my SuperSport Kitfox kit in 2011 and spent 27 months to completion on December 17, 2014, Kityhawk's 111th anniversary. N43KF is powered...
Save $80 on ATS Tensiometers
Purchase a cable tensiometer from Aircraft Tool Supply and save $80. The T60-1001-C8 and T60-1001-C9 are on sale this week only! These cable tensiometers are ideal...
First Customer Built Panther Sport Takes Flight
The first customer built Panther Sport, N109L Built by Robert (Bob) Woolley, took it’s maiden flight on Agust 5, 2015. N109L is a Sport...
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Avionics Special: Surfing the Rapids
Marc Cooks installation of Grand Rapids Technologies Horizon HX synthetic vision EFIS is darned near plug-and-play, and works beautifully.
A Higher Velocity
Marc Cook reviews the new twin-turbo Velocity TXL from Velocity Aircraft. Among the benefits of the new configuration, which includes two Garrett turbochargers on the Continental engine, is power that keeps performance consistent well into higher altitudes-to the tune of 250 knots at FL250.
Light Stuff
This month, Light Stuff columnist Dave Martin briefly reviews the history of single-seat ultralights and predicts their future as ELSAs. Assuming they are neither fat nor too fast, getting the required training may still be a stickler.
