Bob Chambers, a.k.a. Robrucha is the one contributor who has been published in every KITPLANES® issue since the magazine's first issue in 1984. His book, “Out of the Basement,” featuring 209 of his aviation cartoons (most of them from KITPLANES® and in color), was published in 2013.

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