KITPLANES

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

It’s Toy Season!

KITPLANES

The Most Dangerous Thing in the Cockpit

A Newbie’s View • Can the Zenith CH 750 Cruzer be the gateway airplane to Experimentals? We attempt to find out.

Zenith At 40

Take a Lap! • Exhaust valve lapping, in place!

Got Video?

Uninsurable? • The insurance market has changed for orphaned designs.

SECOND CHANCE SIX • Part 8: Brakes, Faeth’s and a fuselage on the freeway.

Custom Composite Inspection Panels • How to add panels to already-molded skins.

Building the 750SDXTREME • Part 11: Sure, you can buy intercoolers off the shelf but sometimes you have to DIY it. Here’s how.

LAY IT ON THICK • Fumed silica thickens epoxy to the perfect consistency for gluing.

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The Holy Grail of Landing Lights • Installing a Flyleds Seven Stars in a GlaStar.

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PLANE AND SIMPLE • Building the Affordaplane, Part 3

Target Fixation Taught by Trees

Parts Is Parts

A Hose Job

Assistance for Resistance

Choosing the Configuration

Compromises

UNAIRWORTHY • ELT Problems

February 1985