![[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")
New Zenith CH 650 Quick Build Kit
Zenith Aircraft Company has introduced a new Quick Build Kit (QBK) for its low-wing Zenith CH 650 cruiser Light Sport kit aircraft. With the QBK,...
Zenith Hosts Summer Fly-In Saturday
The fifth annual Fly in to Summer open hangar day and fly-in gathering will be held Saturday June 23 at the Zenith Aircraft factory...
Modular Flight Bags Now Available
Brightline Bags have a new modular flight-bag system called the FLEX System. With five different sizes of interchangeable modules available, a front and rear...
New Air Conditioner Unit for Homebuilts
Air Management Technology, Inc., has introduced FlyCool: an ultra-lightweight, all-electric, vapor-cycle air conditioning system developed for the LSA and Experimental market.
The R-134a vapor-cycle system...
Streamline Radial Rocket Airframe Kits Available
Altitude Group LLC announced Radial Rocket Streamline Airframe Kits, which offer all of the Radial Rocket-specific airframe parts--molded composite parts, canopy and windshield, landing-gear...
Engine Components International Mourns Passing of CEO Gary H. Garvens
Engine Components International (ECi), along with its parent company, Danbury AeroSpace, announced the passing of owner and CEO Gary H. Garvens on May 31,...
SeaRey 20th Anniversary Celebrations
To celebrate 20 years in sport amphibian aviation, Progressive Aerodyne is offering a promotional package to buyers of 2012 SeaRey kits. This incentive is...
Brian Charlton's Sonex Waiex
I completed my Waiex in April 2011 after two years building and I enjoyed the process so much I would like to build another.
I...
Crossing the Atlantic: Low, Slow and on Electrical Power
Chip Yates, a championship motorcycle racer and winner of the 2011 Pikes Peak Hill Climb on a 258-horsepower electric motorcycle, is planning on making...
New Wingtip LED Light System
Kuntzleman Electronics introduces the LED Combo, a new wingtip strobe anti-collision/navigation light system. This cluster of very bright LEDs uses a common controller that...
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Wind Tunnel
The author discusses the theory and effect of constant-speed propellers on piston-engine airplane performance, and compares fixed-pitch versus constant-speed props, effect on thrust HP and propulsion, the comprises involved in choosing a prop, how props perform in various conditions and phases of flight, how variable-pitch props work, and why a constant-speed prop is the best choice for high-performance aircraft.
Yearly Condition Inspection, Part I
If you own a Cessna or other certificated airplane, you need to get an...
Ask the DAR
Repairman certificate eligibility, ELSA mods, flying at civil twilight, fuel cap engraving.
Alternative Energies
Dean Sigler was on location at this year’s Green Flight Challenge in Santa Rosa, California, and he offers a report.