![[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")
Astronaut’s Long-EZ Displayed Near Homebuilder HQ
When Jim Voss misses an AirVenture, he has a good reason. Even while serving on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001, he gave...
Pitts 70th at Air Venture
Long before there were kits, composites or even much in the way of plans there was Curtis Pitts. Marshalling the best of Greatest Generation...
Garmin Provides Hands-on Display of Avionics
The new Garmin tent near Boeing Plaza provides pilots with plenty of opportunity to play with their powered-up avionics. Expanded from previous years, the...
EAA's Give Flight Initiative
The EAA's Give Flight goal for this week is to build five wing sets (one Sonex Waiex, one Van's RV-12, one Zenith CH 650,...
Pigeon-Toeing a Hummelbird
Although running past to another event, we couldn't resist a flirting look at Pete Zutrauen's impossibly small, low and high-visibility Hummelbird. The VW-powered, all-metal...
Teenflight Auction
Project Teenflight is auctioning this beautiful, approximately 50-hour old E-LSA RV-12 to raise funds for the next group of teenage builders. The plane was...
Zenith Aircraft Sponsors Engine Day at Oshkosh 2015
One of the best things about the Chris Heintz Zenith designs is that the airframes accept a wide range of powerplants. On Friday, July...
Bright Idea
Our old eyes lit up when we saw Scangrip's (scangripusa.com) range of bright, daylight color-matched work lights in the AirVenture vendor's hangar A.
The I-VIEW...
Kitfox Cutaway on Display at Oshkosh
Kitfox Aircraft set up a cutaway of a complete airplane. This provides an opportunity to see a Kitfox skeleton that a finished product doesn't...
Tail Dragging C-150
Okay, it isn't an experimental, but the spirit is there, and with an infusion of horsepower Ken and Lorraine Morris' Cessna 150 tailwheel conversion...
In Case You Missed It
The Future of Homebuilding: Engines
The future is going to look a lot like the present when it comes...
Engine Update: EI Commander
EI Commander helps keep you aware of both whats happening with your engines electronic ignition and, as importantly, why. By Marc Cook.