![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=160&crop=1 "Behind the Voyager Flight: 40 Years of Quieter Cockpits")
![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=160&crop=1 "Vintage in Review Returns to AirVenture 2026 With 90-Year-Old Flyers")
![[Credit: EAA]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/vintage-in-review-herb-clark.jpg?w=324&h=160&crop=1 "Vintage in Review Returns to Oshkosh: Five Days, Five Stories, and a Living OX-5")
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If your homebuilt aircraft requires more assembly than actual fabrication, what does that mean vis-a-vis the FAA’s 51% rule? Roy Beisswenger looks into it.
Light Stuff
The author reviews the Kappa KP-5 LSA, imported by Kappa Aircraft from the Czech Republic. This is a conventional, low-wing, trigear configuration airplane, with a staggered seating arrangement that allows more room for each occupant, while keeping the cockpit narrow. The KP-5 is powered by a 100-horsepower Rotax 912 ULS engine and a Woodcomp three-blade prop, and has a useful load of 583 pounds. Full-power airspeed is stated as 138 mph. Avionics equipment includes a Dynon EFIS and engine monitor, Garmin GPSMAP 496 and Garmin transponder.
Old, New & Old Again!
We are seeing more talk of people rebuilding cores found in barns or the back of hangars.