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Kit Airplane Construction

Featuring new and classic kitplane designs, this proven bestseller is the most current and comprehensive resource available on choosing, building, and flying homebuilt planes. Covering tubing and fabric, wood, traditional sheet metal, and the latest composites, Kit Airplane Construction uses step-by-step instructions and detailed case studies of kitplane models to give amateur plane builders the knowledge needed to create and fly their own aircraft.

New in the Third Edition!

  • Costs and Materials Guides
  • Details on Avionics
  • Occupant Comfort Section
  • "Experimental Light Sports" Category
  • Safety Regulations
  • New photographs

Table of Contents:

  • Beginnings
  • Fundamentals
  • Alternatives
  • Selection
  • Decisions
  • Preparations
  • Basics
  • Composite Construction
  • Metal-monocoque Construction
  • Steel Tube and Aluminum Tube Construction
  • Wood and Fabric Construction
  • Completion
  • Afterward: Get 'Em Flying

About the Author:

Ronald J. Wanttaja is an award-winning aviation writer and a systems engineer with Boeing, working in satellite orbit/constellation design and analysis, launch vehicle and onboard propulsion system trades, and operations concepts for space systems. He worked on the early design studies for the International Space Station. An Air Force veteran, he was an on-duty operator for the Defense Support Program missile early-warning satellite. As a freelance aviation journalist, he has written for Private Pilot, Flying, Sport Aviation, Flight Line, Kitplanes, and other publications. He is author of the bookAirplane Ownership, also from McGraw-Hill. His aviation writing has won several prizes, including the EAA "Bax Seat Trophy" and a journalism award from the Aviation/Space Writer's Association. Mr. Wanttaja has also written and published historical fiction.

Third Edition, Softcover, 384 pages.

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