KITPLANES

Your Homebuilt Aircraft Authority. We cover topics relevant to anyone who has ever dreamed of building or owning a homebuilt experimental aircraft.

Bending Your Brain

KITPLANES

Life With the SubSonex • Four years and 200 hours with the “cute” jet.

Sidestick Stories: Flying the SubSonex

Light Sport Accidents: A Broader Look • Experimental Light Sport Aircraft have a better safety record than traditional homebuilts.

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL • Flying Rosie “from sea to shining sea.”

GOING GLASS • Part 2: OK, let’s install this stuff!

SECOND CHANCE SIX • Part 7: Did you know that trailering an airplane across town is an all-day event? I didn’t.

Rounding a Hole

Building the 750 SD XTREME • Part 10: Overcoming builder’s block and exhaust modifications.

Nose Job • How to set up your spinner to run perfectly true.

GOT WINGS?

PLANE and SIMPLE • Building the Affordaplane, Part 2

High CHTs

Case Hardening

Drilling Holes for Fasteners

A Hangar Fit for a Bride

Diodes, the Universal Component?

Fuel Pump Overflow

Design Innovation

Sounding Off

May 2014