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Continue to the categoryRutan Symposium Turns to the Coming Canard Maintenance Crisis
![[Credit: Wikimedia Commons]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/4_rutan_a_longez.jpg_preview.jpg?w=324&h=235&crop=1 "Rutan Symposium Turns to the Coming Canard Maintenance Crisis")
The Rutan Aircraft Flying Experience held its annual Future of Rutan Designs Symposium on Wednesday, July 22, at Forum Stage 9. This year the...
FAA Accepts ASTM Standards, Clearing the Last Hurdle for MOSAIC
![[Credit: Flight Desgn GmbH]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/1_mosaic_flightdesign.jpg_preview.jpg?w=324&h=235&crop=1 "FAA Accepts ASTM Standards, Clearing the Last Hurdle for MOSAIC")
The Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association arrived at Oshkosh this week with the news homebuilders and light-aircraft makers have waited a decade to hear. The...
magniX Opens Pre-Orders for an Electric Engine Aimed at Homebuilders
![[Credit: magniX]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Magnix.jpg?w=324&h=235&crop=1 "magniX Opens Pre-Orders for an Electric Engine Aimed at Homebuilders")
magniX is using AirVenture to move electric propulsion out of the demonstrator stage and toward the flight line. The company announced it is opening...
New Book Collects 91 Survival Stories from Experimental Pilots
Every account in Fletcher McKenzie new book comes from a pilot who lived to tell it. That is the organizing idea behind 91 Lessons...
Phillips 66 Sets Course for Oshkosh With Specials, Seminars—and Popsicles
![The week ahead: a KC-135 tanker passes over the grounds at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, where Phillips 66 will set up at tents #430 and #431. [Credit: USDA Forest Service]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-22-at-10.01.04-AM.jpg?w=324&h=235&crop=1 "Phillips 66 Sets Course for Oshkosh With Specials, Seminars—and Popsicles")
Phillips 66 Aviation and Phillips 66 Lubricants are headed back to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, and the brand is bringing the full kit: show-only specials,...
Sonex Renames High Wing the Phoenix
![[Credit: Sonex]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/unnamed-6.jpg?w=324&h=235&crop=1 "Sonex Renames High Wing the Phoenix")
The rejuvenated Sonex has given its two-seat high-wing a new name. The airplane that has carried the working title "Sonex Highwing" through three years...
The New Jetprop Carbon Cub
![Backcountry manners intact: the ULT sits on a grass strip with the turbine spun up, built on the STOL-capable Carbon Cub UL airframe. [Credit: CubCrafters]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-20-at-11.12.13-AM.jpg?w=324&h=235&crop=1 "The New Jetprop Carbon Cub")
The Cub has always meant a piston engine up front but CubCrafters is changing that.
The Yakima, Washington, company has introduced the Carbon Cub ULT,...
Behind the Voyager Flight: 40 Years of Quieter Cockpits
![The Rutan Model 76 Voyager circles Edwards Air Force Base in December 1986 as Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager complete the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world. [Credit: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-20-at-11.02.07-AM.jpg?w=324&h=235&crop=1 "Behind the Voyager Flight: 40 Years of Quieter Cockpits")
Everyone knows the headline: in December 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew the Burt Rutan–designed Voyager around the world nonstop and unrefueled, staying...
Vintage in Review Returns to AirVenture 2026 With 90-Year-Old Flyers
![The Granville Brothers Gee Bee R-6 “Q.E.D.” being serviced before the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race; Mid America Flight Museum flies a replica of this aircraft. [Credit: Wikimedia Commons]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-17-at-3.09.57-PM.jpg?w=324&h=235&crop=1 "Vintage in Review Returns to AirVenture 2026 With 90-Year-Old Flyers")
One of AirVenture's most storied traditions is back. The Vintage in Review showcase returns to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2026, spotlighting the unique and...
Glasair Sportsman 2+2, Part Two
![[All images credited to Mike Davenport]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/DSC_6716.jpg?w=324&h=235&crop=1 "Glasair Sportsman 2+2, Part Two")
You walk into the hangar you are immediately struck by the size of this aircraft. It occupies all the space available. It is a...
Sun ’n Fun 2026 Recap: Avionics Upgrades, Thorp Kits, and STOL...
![Dragging it in low and slow for the STOL competition. [Credit: Andrew Robinson]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/SnF_dragging_in.jpg?w=324&h=235&crop=1 "Sun ’n Fun 2026 Recap: Avionics Upgrades, Thorp Kits, and STOL Action")
I made my annual foray down to Lakeland Linder International (international for almost ten years now!) airport for two days of sweating off a...
McFarlane Alaska Absorbs Backcountry Favorite T3 Tailwheel
![[Credit: McFarlane Alaska]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/McFarlane_tailwheel.jpg?w=324&h=235&crop=1 "McFarlane Alaska Absorbs Backcountry Favorite T3 Tailwheel")
If you fly off gravel bars, ridge strips, or anything that only loosely qualifies as a runway, the odds are decent you have a...
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Wind Tunnel
Columnist Barnaby Wainfan continues his flight-testing discussion by taking up the topic of longitudinal stability. By identifying the origin of the problem, whether it be a control-system issue, a too-small static margin, or a combination of the two, the flight tests he recommends will help to isolate the issue.
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Contributors
Doug Rozendaal Right place, right time. Thats Doug Rozendaals kinda luck this month. Quite...