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There comes a day in every airplane build where there is nothing left to do but fill it with fuel, get in and take it aloft. In this video, KITPLANES editor Paul Dye takes us through a flight in the SubSonex jet. It’s a cockpit view of how a flight trial should be conducted.

In February 2021, NASA hopes to land on Mars an ambitious dual-rotor helicopter that will explore the planet’s surface and take low-altitude imagery for transmission back to Earth. In this NASA video, we see how the Ingenuity helicopter undocks from the belly of the Perseverance rover that will carry it to the Martian surface. To […]

In this AVweb video, Paul Bertorelli dissects two takeoff accidents—including the crash of his own Mooney—to highlight how to recognize and avoid the most dangerous takeoff mistakes.

In this detailed video review, KITPLANES editor Marc Cook takes the new Garmin GI 275 multi-function EFIS display flying. This in-flight footage shows the unit in action, connected to a Garmin GNX 375 for full ADS-B traffic and weather. See the full review here.

Hardly a week passes when we don’t see another Giant Scale RC aircraft of some sort on its first flight. But last summer Otto Widlroither outdid them all with his dazzling 1/6 scale Concorde. At 33 feet long and 328 pounds, it required a real airport for the flight at Mühldorf am Inn in Bavaria. […]