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August 2022
...homebuilt aviation magazine. Written exclusively for enthusiasts like you, our editors pack each issue with need-to-know information on building, flying, designing and maintaining your own amateur-built category manned aircraft. Subscribe...
Hummel Aircraft’s First Kit Builder’s Weekend
...that they can get the word out that the trial run was a success. Building airplane parts, making new friends and enjoying home cooked meals? Sounds like a perfect weekend....
Meet KR2-S Owner John Bouyea
...he was building the KR in Santa Maria. The airfoil and spar modifications were designed by his son, who was an aviation engineer.” Bouyea’s airplane has the 14-inch fuselage stretch,...
Stick to the Plans
“I’m not a painter,” Tony Kirk said, and deciding on a paint scheme for his RV-7 was harder than building it. Repeating the red, white and blue Thunderbird scheme on...
Mike and Laura Starkey’s RANS S-21: Part 13
In our last installment of this build series, we had covered, through 12 installments, much of the building of our RANS S-21 Outbound as well as the logical culmination of...
Building the eXenos
I have often written that before you start building an airplane, you should set your requirements: What is the airplane designed to do? What design satisfies that goal? How does...
Lindsey Van’s RV-6
I really enjoyed building this plane, I didn’t get in a hurry to build it. I wanted to do it right. I had lots of help from friends and family....
What a Darling(ton) Noisemaker
...our little machine into a “character building” situation. Or the fuel in one tank or the other is about to turn the plane into a glider…and you don’t have a...
Cogswell’s Molds, Part 2
...has a “crowfoot weave, which contours nicely” and is “excellent for model building.” It has a weight of 3.1 ounces per square yard. Using heavier fiberglass or a different weave...
Shifting Gears with Ivan Gromala
...who’s been a tailwheel pilot the entire time he’s been flying. “If I don’t know something, I’m gonna ask people who’ve done it and who have gone through building different...
In Case You Missed It
Sitting Up Front Again
From hot rods to homebuilts, a new editor takes the stick at KITPLANES—with steady hands, clear skies, and a love for hands-on aviation.
Metal Magic: Dimpling and Countersinking
Before you can start driving countersunk rivets, you need to know how to dimple or countersink aluminum.
Got Threads?
What to do when you've stripped a spark plug hole or other threaded receptacle in your homebuilt (once the cursing has stopped)? We have ways...
