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Not everyone is strongly “handed” and there are some applications where a grip that feels right in either hand is, um, right for the job. That’s the thinking behind Pioneer Control Grips’ new ambidextrous grips.

The plane was just unveiled this week at Sun ‘n Fun, and ordering now can reportedly have you traveling to Zephyrhills Municipal Airport in Florida in four months to build it.

This sleek retractable-gear, two-seat Experimental can use any of several Rotax engines, from the 100-hp 912 ULS to the 160-hp turbocharged 916 iS.

A Swiss-made 39-hp four-stroke powerplant with a 1000-hour TBO under $10k.

Sporting a crisp, high-resolution display, they are nicely equipped with a variety of handy features and a smart feature set.

It happens pretty much every year. Springtime weather brings its expected instability to the Sun ‘n Fun airshow.

The Gweduck is a hero-class Experimental three decades in the making.

Lockwood’s Rotax-powered RV-9A is more than just fancy rhinoplasty.

Kitfox’s Super Sport gets more than new pep from Rotax’s turbocharged 916 iS.

Can a modern replica actually be better than a classic original?

Getting a multi-engine sea rating in the always-entertaining AirCam.

Rotax’s spunky 916 brings new tech and international appeal to a venerated design.

Experimental Light Sport Aircraft have a better safety record than traditional homebuilts.

Overcoming builder’s block and exhaust modifications.

Part 2: OK, let’s install this stuff!

Flying Rosie “from sea to shining sea.”

Meet this gem of an airplane.

A building partnership builds on its success.

Part 8: Trying out task-based Phase I flight testing.

Part 6: Working up the panel plus some odds and ends.

From a construction standpoint this ultralight design is quite unusual in some ways and very traditional in others.

Cut large holes in thin material freehand.

Let’s talk about what makes a diode—what the physical makeup of a diode really looks like on the inside.

Ever consider what it might be like building an ultralight?

Humans are amazingly adaptable but sometimes we lack imagination. Here’s one example.

Like some sort of verbal restricted area, certain subjects are such tropes in aviation...

We are seeing more talk of people rebuilding cores found in barns or the back of hangars.

There’s no reason to participate in the hobby—for that matter, any hobby—unless it’s underpinned by fun.

Not everyone is strongly “handed” and there are some applications where a grip that feels right in either hand is, um, right for the job. That’s the thinking behind Pioneer Control Grips’ new ambidextrous grips.

Flybreezy, a company based in California, has a new product aimed at making battery charging less of an issue for pilot videographers.

Featuring color displays, the new radios are com only (GTR 205) or a nav/com (GTR 215).