When you build your own plane, you’re basically trading time for money. The heart of any plane is its engine, and the TSi comes with a great one. It’s the Rotax 915 iS, ...

Earlier this month, Doug Berry set out to build his very own airplane. Now he has a shiny new four-seater with a turbocharged engine and a sleek carbon fiber body. Here’s how he put everything ...

There were thousands of aircraft, but one stopped me in my tracks: Beautiful Doll, an RV-8 built by a guy named Danny King. When I was building my RV-8, this was what I hoped it would become.

Ever fantasized about building your own airplane? Even one of the least expensive kits from leading manufacturer Van’s Aircraft, the RV-9A, equipped with the most modest options—a used, 118 ...

If you build it … you can fly it, too.As Peter Elsea and Jason Lorusso have discovered in recent years, there’s a special satisfaction in building your own plane — or at least assisting in ...

You don't need any compressed air or electromagnets to build your own airplane catapult, however. In this project you will build one using a rubber band. It stores potential energy, ...

Since then, all manner of aircraft have been devised. The driving force behind them was their ever-improving engines. But one such engine pre-dates planes by two years: the radial engine, built in ...

Owning your own aircraft for flight training and building flight hours can be wildly rewarding, but it also comes with risks. Airline captain Sam Weigel shares his experience of owning a 1953 ...