Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rockford chapter of the experimental aircraft association shows off its progress on a kit plane. EAA Chapter 22 at Cottonwood ...

It’s a familiar scene, replayed in garages and workshops across the country for the better part of a half-century: the arrival of an airplane kit. For some, it's a stack of boxes and a long tube or ...

Growing up in tiny Frederic, Wisconsin, the Karl brothers were always tinkering. Always building something — “or taking things apart, probably more often than building things,” says oldest brother ...

"Simplify and add lightness." Someone really smart and special to motoring enthusiasts once said something to that tune, we're sure you know who. But because airplanes tend to be, well, massive, it's ...

GILA BEND, Ariz. — An experimental, homemade aircraft crashed about 70 miles (111 kilometers) southwest of Phoenix, killing one person and seriously injuring another, authorities said. The aircraft ...

What powers this innovation? One source is an aircraft category called “experimental/amateur-built” that is recognized by the FAA since they are created and ...