![[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")
Miracle Machines
When I was young, homebuilders were those crazy guys at the end of the airport in a falling-down hangar that were attaching Cub wings...
Long Day, Good Day!
Making a trip in one day from the Lake Tahoe area to AirVenture can be a bit challenging. Our airport doesn’t have lights, occasionally...
Lady Vi Emergency Landing
On the way to Oshkosh the only flying VariVggen, "Lady Vi," lost oil pressure over northern Arkansas. Pilot Ryszard Zadow diverted to a small...
Getting Around on the Grounds
First time visitors to EAA AirVenture predictably utter the standard pronouncement, “I had no idea it was so BIG!” I always try to prepare...
Thank Goodness for Great Seats
No matter how good the weather, there are challenges to flying a single-seater, like our RV-3B, to Oshkosh in one day. Nearly eight hours...
Yankton
Part of the adventure of AirVenture is getting there as pleasantly and hassle free as possible. Careful fuel planning before launch is wise but...
Homebuilts at AirVenture: All The Wright Stuff
Growing up in Oshkosh certainly exposed me to the world of aviation. When the convention landed in KOSH in 1970, I was six-years old....
The Places We Fly Over
Coming to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is, for most of us, a matter of following GPS guidance over the NOTAMed waypoints, with nary a thought...
FLYING Acquires Five Major Aviation Media Brands
FLYING Media Group, the parent company of FLYING magazine, is acquiring the aviation publication assets of Belvoir Media.
Long-Awaited LSA Rules Update on the Horizon
After years of work, many revisions and endless meetings, the MOSAIC tree is about to bear fruit as the FAA is poised to release...
In Case You Missed It
Taylor Monoplane
Bob Grimstead has way too much fun and gets plenty of wind in his face as he flight-tests the plansbuilt Taylor Monoplane.
Forgotten Flops
Many proposed, prototype, and production airplanes died at birth in aviation's golden age.
Target Fixation Taught by Trees
I was chopping firewood under a dead ash tree, whiffing deep, ax-head-shaped divots into my lawn, when I remembered the time, once upon a takeoff, that a living oak tree nearly got the best of me.
What’s New
Find welding resources at USAWeld.com, Ztron Labs offers an alternative to conventional aircraft circuit breakers, and record your flights with the AV-HD video system from Data Toys. Edited by Abby Ventzke.