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In typical fashion, Van’s Aircraft refused to rest on its laurels after the RV-12’s prototype debut last year, and sought to improve on an already good design. The new production airplane has changed (beyond its color), with a castering nosewheel, toe brakes instead of a grip, reshaped control sticks for better clearance, ground-adjustable seats fore and aft as well as in tilt, and the list goes on. Best of all, this day/VFR machine is still a delight to fly; by Ed Kolano.

Fabric covering.

Jim Weir responds to a reader request to find a way to make any cell phone turn on an electrical device.

Chris Hill’s Dr.I replica is as close as you can get to an actual 1917 Fokker Dreidecker.