![[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")
30 Years and Who’s Counting?
Once the EAA mainstay, new plans-built completions are a rarity at AirVenture these days, but as Ken Orloff's magnificent Marquart MA-5 Charger fledgling proves,...
Sling 4 Two-Week Turbo Build Program Announced
The Airplane Factory (TAF) has partnered with Synergy Air to launch the Sling 4 Two-Week Turbo Build Program. Builders will spend several weeks at...
Hypoxia
The FAA Aviation Physiology group came to AirVenture with a very cool new "experiential" teaching device---a normobaric hypoxia training chamber. Every half-hour from 9...
EAA Announces $25,000 Prize for Best Idea to Increase Safety in...
The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) introduced a new Founder's Innovation Prize to encourage ideas that will enhance safety in amateur-built aircraft. The designer of...
Trying On a Classic
I am of an age such that the BD-5J figured large in my imagination as I was learning to build and fly airplanes. While...
More Rotax 915iS
Here are a few - random - tidbits and photos of the just announced Rotax 915iS turbo engine.
The gearbox internal details are not announced...
What Is It?
This has to be one of the most unusual STOL planes ever. Powered by a 180-hp Lycoming IO-360 turning a Hartzell constant-speed prop, this...
Tosten’s New MS Grip
About a year ago we showed the tooling for Tosten's upcoming stick grip in our grip round-up article, and now it's on the market....
The Experimental Wright “B”Flyer
It always takes awhile for me to find my way south to the Vintage Aircraft area at AirVenture but I'm never disappointed. This year,...
UL Power Briefing
Robert Helms of UL Power gave a short introductory press talk this morning at AirVenture. The company has been making steady inroads to the...
In Case You Missed It
Rotorway’s Talon
Although it may resemble its predecessor, this new helo represents a significant evolutionary leap.
Build It Better: Where’s Your Margin?
How can you give yourself that margin of safety that you hope you'll never need?