![[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")
It’s an AirVenture Wedding For Kitplanes Writer!
KITPLANES writer Katie Bosman (Fix these broken wings!, November 2014) and her long-time boyfriend, Ben Krotje gathered about 40 close friends and family to...
Upside Down with Trig
Trig Avionics, (AirVenture Hangar C) has a mantra we can appreciate - provide avionics with the features pilots really use and don't mind the...
Kitplanes Flies the New RV-14
Kitplanes Editor in Chief Paul Dye was along for the ride as photographer Richard VanderMeulen shot photos for an upcoming flight review of the...
Forum Overload
One thing separating AirVenture from most other aviation gathering is the overwhelming number of forums and workshops. For the hands-on experimenter or builder it's...
Saberwing
I met Bill Clapp and his wife Kyoung of Azalea Aviation today on the flightline at OSH. They were showing their newly designed kit...
Zenair Announces Two-Week Wonder Factory-Assist Program for CH 750 Cruzer
Now there's an even faster way to build a CH 750 Cruzer. In just two weeks, participants in Zenair's Two-Week Wonder program will complete...
What is it?
This aircraft was designed in 1962 to set speed records for 500-kilogram airplanes. Powered by a 100-hp Continental O-200A, the pusher configuration was used...
Panther Folding Wing Demos
The folks at the Panther site in the outdoor home built area are giving wing folding demonstrations twice a day. The little single-seat kitplane...
Goodyear Zeppelin Buzzes Camp Scholler
There we were, recently collapsed into a camp chair, not to mention a strawberry-walnut-blue cheese-and-tomato salad (Californians don't you know), when Goodyear's newest, the...
Bede BD-6 Re-introduced
Jim Bede may have recently passed away, but Jim Bede Jr. continues the family company. In fact, Bedecorp is reintroducing the BD-6 with several...
In Case You Missed It
What Are the Odds?
My first winter in Oregon came and went. The weather’s been fairly nice leading...
Going Glass in a Glasair
Lessons learned while installing a Dynon SkyView system in a Glasair Super II apply to all types of experimentals. By Gary Jones.
