Velocity Aircraft announced on the Velocity Kit Aircraft Builders Forum (Reflector Mirror) web site that ownership of the company is now once again solely in the hands of Duane Swing and Scott Swing, with Rocket Racing having no interest in the company. As a result of this change, General Manager Scott Baker was released and [...]

KITPLANES’ exclusive video highlighting the Europa Monowheel built by Kim Prout. His Europa is one of the highest-time examples in the U.S., and amply shows off the superb combination of agility and utility.

Three Safari helicopter builders won awards for their projects at the Sun n Fun fly-in, the company says. A black and tangerine Safari owned by Jimmy Benson, of Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, was honored with the Grand Champion Rotorcraft prize. Mike Smolek of St. Marys City, Maryland, was awarded Best Helicopter, and Al Rulton of London, Ontario, [...]

A CubCrafters Carbon Cub SS, piloted by Paul Claus, took first place in the STOL competition at the May Day Fly-In & Air Show in Valdez, Alaska, May 7-9. Claus flew N155PC in the Alternative Bush Class (Experimental) category and won with a score of 133 feet. Each competing pilot performs two sets of takeoffs [...]

Zenith Aircraft Company is reporting that its CH 750 kit aircraft has cleared evaluation by the newly formed NKET (National Kit Evaluation Team) as compliant with Experimental/Amateur-Built rules. That is, the kit, which was introduced after the moratorium on kit evaluations was placed in early 2008, has been evaluated and leaves the “major portion” of [...]

AvWeb’s Paul Bertorelli continues coverage from Teledyne Continental Motors’ press function today: While the industry wrings its hands deciding what to do about the demise of 100LL, one of Teledyne Continental’s strategies is reduce the compression ratio of some of its engines, including the O-200-D. The O-200-D is a lightweight version of the venerable O-200 [...]

AvWeb’s Paul Bertorelli continues coverage from Teledyne Continental Motors’ press function today: Continental is moving forward with its research to pitch 94UL as a replacement for 100LL avgas, which the EPA seems serious about regulating out of existence. At the company’s Mobile, Alabama, test center, TCM is running detonation tests of 94UL and on Wednesday, [...]

TCM said more than a year ago that it wanted to get an aerodiesel into its product line and now it has one. The company bought diesel technology already developed from a European source and is forging ahead with its own program.