![[Credit: Van's Aircraft]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG_5238.jpg?w=534&h=462&crop=1 "Part 22 Gets Real: Van’s Delivers the First MOSAIC-Certified Airplane")
![[Credit: Wikimedia Commons]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/4_rutan_a_longez.jpg_preview.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "Rutan Symposium Turns to the Coming Canard Maintenance Crisis")
![[Credit: Flight Desgn GmbH]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/1_mosaic_flightdesign.jpg_preview.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "FAA Accepts ASTM Standards, Clearing the Last Hurdle for MOSAIC")
![[Credit: magniX]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Magnix.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "magniX Opens Pre-Orders for an Electric Engine Aimed at Homebuilders")
Hay, What’s That?
Well past vespers, when the beer-pong tournaments had retired for lack of light and somewhere the last cancelled check courier considered his breakfast from...
Jan Gets Her Stitch On
I'm a lucky man - my wife Jan is, if not a native aviation fan, indulgent of my aviation passion and has tented in...
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....
In Case You Missed It
![[Credit: Lisa Turner]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Inspections-scaled.jpg?w=324&h=160&crop=1 "Last Bits")
AeroLectrics
Why we need regulated voltage in our aircraft and how zener diodes, resistors, transistors and semiconductors help us get there.
Never Buy Meat From A Guy in a Parking Lot
A builder—I’ll call him D. Thomas—told me A Guy told him he needed to...
Home Machinist
Let’s take it to the edge. Where is the edge? If, up to now, all you’ve done is scribe a target and eyeball the position of the drill bit, this is for you. By Bob Fritz.