Ever wonder what it takes to be the largest kit manufacturer in the world? KITPLANES editor Marc Cook takes a tour of Van’s Aircraft in Aurora, Oregon.

RDD Enterprises, LLC announced the availability of the electrically actuated Speed Bra-X for the Van’s RV-10. RDD’s David McRae headed up the development program for the design, working with Precise Flight, Inc., which holds a number of Supplemental Type Certificates for speed brakes on a range of aircraft, many of which are installed as original [...]

The dreaded letter. Every airplane owner (practically) has gotten one at some point. A problem has been detected with a particular part or piece of your aircraft, and the manufacturer is notifying you via a service bulletin, or the FAA is notifying you via an airworthiness directive, of both the problem and the solution. The [...]

VFE. Do you know what it is? That’s the maximum speed at which it is safe to deploy the flaps on your airplane. You set it when you set up the various airspeed limitations on your aircraft before it was certified and, if you built a kit, you probably defaulted and used the airspeed the [...]

Van’s Light Sport RV-12 was on prominent display at Sun ‘n Fun today, with, at times, a three-deep line to see the details of this Rotax 912-powered LSA. Here is a quick, no-frills, no voice-over walk around–hey, we like to keep it simple around here. Van’s has been taking orders for the kit version. http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fv10.nonxt3.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fid%3D24e8074dd78bea0d%26itag%3D5%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26app%3Dblogger%26et%3Dplay%26el%3DEMBEDDED%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1269277385%26sparams%3Did%252Citag%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Cexpire%26signature%3D69AE5E708B67D8A5747C2569768F0FABB7C991CD.26E1CE79570EB242B374BA2162D32A5C9A00C052%26key%3Dck1&nogvlm=1&thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D24e8074dd78bea0d%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DeMe_0uAEUcs6ELCsNyZ4QVKSZnM&messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den [...]