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Ron's Sea and Sky Aviation Page page is mostly for the
Homebuilt
Aviation enthusiast. Email me at ron@wanttaja.com
with any corrections or suggestions.
Last Update: 20 Nov 2008
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General Information
Links to Homebuilt Aircraft Companies and
Individual
Aircraft Web Pages
Frequently Asked Questions (and Their Answers)
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Homebuilt Aircraft FAQ (Frequently Asked
Questions
List)
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Jim
Pratt's FAQ site . LOTS of legal and other information on
homebuilts,
including downloadable copies of important FAA documents.
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Amateur-Built Maintenance (an article from
the
EAA Government Programs Office). Learn the legalities of maintaining a
homebuilt you bought instead of built.
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Index
for KITPLANES and SPORT AVIATION Thomas Decker graciously offered
his
index to the net, and Marc Zeitlin has done an HTML conversion. Many
thanks
to both these gentlemen.
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And the post popular question: "Where can I find free plans for
homebuilt
aircraft?"
Aircraft Information
Personal Sites of Note
Miscellaneous
Homebuilt Registrations 1970-2000
Plot based on data provided to the EAA by
the FAA .
Technical Info
Cockpit Dimensions
Construction and Design Advice
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ShopSheets! As
published in
KITPLANES magazine in the mid-'90s, ShopSheets are one-page summaries
of
various aspects of building.
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Chris
Heintz's Design College . A set of articles on a number of aspects
relative to designing, building, and flight testing your homebuilt.
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Glue
for wooden aircraft. From the Sequoia Aircraft web page
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Sportair Ron
Alexander's
Homebuilder's Seminars
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How
NOT
to build a canopy
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Plastic-forming
FAQ
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Wings
and Wheels Soaring Supplies has a nice article on how to drill your
windshield and other acrylic parts.
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Building a Fly Baby, Pietenpol, Falco, or any other wooden airplane?
Check
out the Wooden
Airplanes Mailing List
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Sewer
pipe clamps - simple but effective clamps made from sewer pipe...a
3' length of pipe produces 100 clamps.
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Bob Nuckoll's AeroElectric
Connection
Page
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Introduction
to Composites - from the Dutch Aeroplane Company
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R. S. Hoover's Construction Articles. Bob is a very
knowledgable
writer who posts articles on homebuilding to the USENET
newsgroups.
They not only describe how to make particular items, but provide good
insight
into the overall process. These links take you to the article in
the Google
Groups archive. Please note that Bob is a professional
writer,
and if you'd like to re-print his articles, you should get his
permission,
first. Email him at veeduber@aol.com.
Engine Information
I've collected a signficant collection of links on my Sea
and Sky Engine Page.
FAA Advisory Circulars and Reference Information
Flight Testing
Instrumentation
Materials and Specifications
Miscellaneous Technical Information
Painting
Propellers
Stories
These are links to stories about flying (and a couple of other things)
that I've written and shared with folks. Most are fun, there are
a couple of serious ones in the mix.
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The do-it-yourself 747 . Now the
truth is
out....
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Wire Strike! A Cherokee
pilot
flies through power lines, and not only lives, but LANDS.
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The Homebuilt Submarine . Yes, a
submarine,
built out of a T-33 tip tank.
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Armchair Ace . Poetry. Be
afraid.
Be very afraid.
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Goodbye, John
.
A farewell to a friend.
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The Auburn
Witch Project . Oooo, that's SCAAAARYYY!!! :-)
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Banner . Everyone had their reaction
to
September 11th. Here's what I wrote for our next EAA Chapter
newsletter.
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An Accelerometer in Paradise . Where
would
paradise be for a device that measures and stores shocks and bangs for
later examination? How about in a piece of baggage carried by a
commercial
airliner....
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AVweb Articles. I've written a
couple
of articles for the online aviation magazine AVweb
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Fly Baby Tales - A Fly Baby is an
open-cockpit,
single-seat, homebuilt airplane. I've been flying them for about
fifteen years now, and really have no urge to move on to something
else.
Over the years, I've posted a number of stories of things that've
happened
in my Fly Baby. These stories all all located in with my Fly
Baby web page .
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Interested in writing for aviation magazines? Check out the Avwriter's
Primer.
Fun Sites
These are links to some aviation-related sites which are just plain fun
to go through. They're mostly G-rated, although one or two
may have some off-color jokes in sections. Check out my own Stories
section, too.
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Alexis
Park Inn video collection. The Alexis Park Inn is an
aviation-themed
hotel in Iowa City, Iowa. They've started to archive all the wild
aviation video clips.
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Avweb's
Short Final. The online aviation maagazine AVWEB publishes a
humorous aviation anecdote with its news reports. Here's a
collection
of them.
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Fighter
pilot war stories - on F16.net
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Unusual
pictures of Aircraft
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Oregon
Pilot's Association Flying Stories - Check out their Aviation
Jokes section, too
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KC-135
Pressure
Test Explosion
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A
Bonanza in Paris - Quicktime movie of a Bonanza flying under the
Eiffel
Tower. Yow!
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When
Good Planes Go Bad - Pictures of a hangar that got, ummm,
"over-foamed"
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Unusual
Aviation Pictures
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The OOPS List. In my
opinion,
one of the BEST sites on the net. If you've ever heard of a funny
picture of an airplane, it'll be here.
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Nest of
Dragons
. A pretty neat site on weird aircraft
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Breaking
the Sound Barrier . A bunch of neat pictures of condensation
clouds around near-sonic aircraft. Also a couple of Mpeg movies.
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A Homebuilt
ME-163 Komet ...flying!
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The Rocket Car
Legend
- the "True" story. You've all heard the urban legend about
the
highway patrol finding the wreckage of an Oldsmobile that apparently
had
been used for an impromptu rocket car using a surplus JATO
bottle.
It never happened, of course, but here's a writeup by someone who
claims
that some long-ago experimentation by him and some friends was the
genesis
of the famous urban legend. Absolutely hilarious!
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Phil
Rowe's Flying Stories. Rowe is a retired Air Force navigator,
and he has packed his web page with stories about flying planes like
the
B-58 Hustler.
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Jim
Foreman's flying
stories. Some pretty good ones, including some about soaring.
Homebuilt Aircraft Home Pages
These home pages are organized by aircraft type. Some are operated by
the
companies, others are privately operated. Inclusion in this list should
not be construed as an endorsement, nor should exclusion be considered
as a negative comment towards the aircraft in question. To suggest a
site,
email me at ron@wanttaja.com.
Aircraft can be found under either the designer/kit manufacturer name,
or the name of the plane. Some sites contain massive lists of
additional
links to that type...instead of reproducing all the links, I indicate
that
the links are contained on that site.
Looking for an older design that just doesn't seem available?
Check out the Vintage Ultralight and
Lightplane
Association (VULA) . They're trying to gather the rights to
these
old designs and make them available.
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Ace Aircraft
. For the Baby Ace and Junior Ace
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Acroduster
Lee McGee's project
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Acrolight
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Acrosport
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Aeriane
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Aerocomp
The Comp
Monster (factory site)
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Aerosport Quail. See the Gunasekera-12
, a design based on the Quail
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Air Cam
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Affordaplane
Ultralight
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Aircraft
Designs,
Inc . - See also "Stallion"
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Airdrome
Aeroplanes
has subscale Fokker replicas
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Alex
Marinossian's Project is a two-seat aerobatic mount.
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Alpaero
motorized sailplane
kits
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American Affordable Aircraft - See "Vision"
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Ameri-cana
ultralights - Eureka
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Arnold
AR-5
. Record-breaking Rotax-powered composite homebuilt
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Atlantica -
blended-wing
body kit under development
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Aurora
Factory
Site
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Aviat (Christen Eagle)
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Avid Flyer
Factory
Site
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AW
Helicopter
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Baby Ace (See Ace Aircraft)
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Baby
Great Lakes
(Paul Scanlon)
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Barnard
M-19 Flying Squirrel
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Barr Aircraft
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Barracuda
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BD-4
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BD-4.org is a
compendium of
information about the aircraft.
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BD-5
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BD-7
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BD-17
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Beach Boy Ultralight
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Bearhawk
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Blanton V-6
STOL
(modified PA-22)
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Bleriot -
Replical
Bleriot XI
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Boredom Figher
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Bradley
Aerobat
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Bruce
King BK-1
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Bush Caddy an
all-metal
bush airplane
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CA-2
Email Discussion Group
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CA-61 and CA-65 - See Cvjetkovic
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Carlson Aircraft
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Cartercopter
Factory Site (note: They supposedly aren't going to sell this to the
homebuilt
market, but I figured this was the best place to put the link.)
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Cavalier
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Celerity
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CGS Factory
Site
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Challenger
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Christavia
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Christen Eagle (See Aviat)
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CIRCA Nieuports
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Comp Monster
Factory
Site
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Conroy
Sparrow XC
- an Australian aircraft
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Coot Amphibian
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Corben
Junior Ace
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Corby
Starlet
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Corsair82
Tony Pileggi's 82% replica of an F4U
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Corvair Cruiser
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Cozy
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Cri-Cri (Zenair Cricket)
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Cvjetkovic
CA-61
and CA-65
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Cyclone
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Davis
DA-11
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Der Kricket - (Photo
1 - Photo
2) from the Great Plains Aircraft VW-power photo album
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Don Quixote - See Janowski Aircraft
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Dragonfly
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Druine
Turblent. Mike Bennett has reproduced a 30-year-old brochure.
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Dutch Aeroplane
Company
RangeR
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Dyke Delta
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Early Bird Jenny
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Earthstar Aircraft - See Thunder Gull
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Emeraude (See also Piel)
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E-Racer
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Euravial - see Fournier
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Eureka - See Ameri-cana ultralights
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Europa
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Exalibur
Aircraft
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Experimental (Berkut) - see Renaissance Aircraft
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Explorer
- Actually, L'Avion....
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Express Aircraft
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Facetmobile
Barnaby Wainfan's FMX-4 and FMX-5.
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Falco
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Falcon
XP - Dutch Revenboer's photo album
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Falconar Avia
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Fisher Flying Products
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Fisher
Aero Celebrity - Alan Brown's Aircraft
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FishNet
mailing
list ... for builders of Mike Fisher's designs, hosted by Al Pike's
Sport Flyer web site
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Flightstar
Factory
Site
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Flitplane
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Flitzer
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Flugwerk GMBH -
Building
full-scale replica warbirds
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Fly Baby
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Flying Flea
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Flying Squirrel (See Barnard M-19)
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Fokker
(replicas
from Airdrome Aeroplanes)
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Four Winds
Aircraft
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FRED
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Gunasekera-12
. Aircraft design based on the Aerosport Quail
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Glasair
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Glass Goose
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Glassic Composites
Factory Site
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GlaStar
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Factory Site
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Stargate ,
the home
of the GlaStar Gang. Sid Lloyd operates this site, and it's packed with
tons of info and assistance.
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Glidair
motorglider
kit under development
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Gnat GK-7 -
A light,
inexpensive, metal-composite aircraft about the same size as a
Hummlebird
or a CriCri. It's currently under development.
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GP-4
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Groppo
Ultralight
Aircraft
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Griffon
Lionheart
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Harmon Rocket
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Hatz
(American
Hatz Association)
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Hi-Max (Ison
Aircraft)
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Hiperbipe
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Hipps Superbirds
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Hollman
Stallion
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Homebuilt
Aviation Typhoon
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HP-18
Sailplane
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Hummel Bird
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Ibis Canard
Junqua Aircraft
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Indian
ultralight helicopter
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Ison Aircraft
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see JDT Mini-Max
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J-3 Kitten, J-5 Superkitten, etc. - See "Hipps"
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Jabiru
Factory Site
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Jag 233
multibladed
turbine helicopter.
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Janowski
Aircraft
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JDT Mini-Max
(Formerly
Ison Aircraft)
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Junior Ace (See Ace Aircraft)
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Jurca
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Jodel
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John
Doe
STOL
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KIS
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Kitfox
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Kolb
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KR
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L'Avion
- The follow-on aircraft to Dean Wilson's Explorer
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Lancair
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Lazair Ultralights
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Legal
Eagle
Ultralight
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Leza Air Cam
(factory
site)
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Lighting
Bug
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Little Toot - See Meyer
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Lockheed Lightning
TEAM-38
is building an 80% scale replica Lockheed Lightning.
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Loehle
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Long-EZ
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Maranda - See Falconar Avia
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Marske
Monarch - Ultralight sailplane
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Meyer's
Little
Toot
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Dakota
Messerschmitt
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an unbelievable full-scale BF-109
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Microleve
- in Portuguese, yet!
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Mignet - See Flying Flea
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Millicer
Shrike (an Australian production aircraft being considered for the
kit market)
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Mini-Imp
Factory Page
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Mini-Master
a center-line thrust homebuilt powered by two Rotaxes
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Mini-Max(JTD
Mini-Max)
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Mirage
Celerity
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Mistral
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Moni
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M-Squared
Ultralights . South Mississippi Light Aircraft (Dealer)
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Murphy
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Midget Mustang/Mustang II
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S45
Mystere
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Nieuport
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Look under "Circa" for the Graham Lee replicas
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Nieuport
17 - Full scale replica by Bob Gauld-Galliers and John Day
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Northstar Bushplane (Super Cub look-alike)
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One Design
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Osprey
II
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Para-Cycle
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Paramotor
Factory Site
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Parrakeet
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Paxman - See Viper
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Pazmany
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PDQ
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Pegastol
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Pelican (See Ultravia)
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Phoenix
Classics P-51 Replica
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Piel
Beryl, Diamant, Zephyr, Saphire, Onyx, and Emeraude (See also under
Emeraude)
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Pietenpol
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Pitts
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Pneuwing-
An inflatable-wing ultralight. Yow!
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Powers-Bashforth
Mini-Master
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Preceptor
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Pulsar
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Quail (Aerosport). See Gunasekera-12
, an aircraft design based on the Aerosport Quail
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Quasar
- Wild looking twin-boom kit under development
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Quickie
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Ragwing
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Rainbow
Ranger - Download the plans, free!
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RANS
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Raven Rotorcraft
also has a Geo Metro conversion
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Rebel &
Renegade
Factory Site
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Replica
Aircraft Works 80% Stearman replica
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Warner Revolution (See Spacewalker)
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Rihn
Aircraft
Corporation (One Design) Factory Site
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Rose - See Parrakeet
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Rotorway Helicopters
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RV Aircraft
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Ryan ST Replica
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St-Just
Aviation Super Cyclone
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Sadler Vampire
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Schreder
HP-18 Sailplane
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SE-5A
(Replica Plans)
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Sea Hawker (see Glass Goose)
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Searey Amphibian
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Seastar
Amphibian
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Seawind
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Sequoia Aircraft (See Falco)
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Sherwood
Ranger
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Shrike
(an Australian production aircraft being considered for the kit market)
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Silence
Aircraft
- A German design
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Sirius Aviation - See Stearman
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Sirocco,
by Jurca
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Sidewinder
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Sky Arrow
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Sky Pup
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Skybolt
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Skyfly CA-61 and CA-65 - See Cvjetkovic
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Skyote biplane
type club
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Skyraider
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Skyranger,
from Sabre Aircraft
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Skystar Factory
Site
(Look under "Kitfox" as well)
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Slepcev Storch
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Smith
Aviation
Super Cub Kit
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Smith Miniplane
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Sparrow - See Conway
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Sonerai
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Sonex
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Spacewalker (Warner Revolution)
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Sparrow
Hawk Factory site (Power plane)
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Spencer
Air Car (Douglas Palmer's Site)
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Spitfire Replicas
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Sport
Copter
Factory Site
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Springs
WS202
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SQ2000
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Stallion (Super Stallion)
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Starduster
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Stearman
- Replica Aircraf Work's 80% Stearman replica
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Stewart
Headwind
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Stewart S-51
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Stoddard-Hamilton....Look under "Glasair" and "GlaStar"
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Stolp - Look under "Starduster" and "Acroduster"
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Storch
- This site covers the original aircraft. For the homebuilt
replicas,
look under "Slepcev" and "Pazmany" above.
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Stratos
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The joined-wing Ligeti Stratos homebuilt still garners interest, long
after
the demise of the designer. While there isn't a site for the
actual
aircraft, you can see a model and read about the Ligeti
Stratos Story
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Supapup
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Super Cyclone - see Cyclone
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Tailwind
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Talon
Ultralight
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Talon
AT-200
- A Citabria clone
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Tango Two
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Taylor Mini-Imp: See Mini-Imp
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TEAM (Now called Ison Aircraft)
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TEAM-38 is
building
an 80% scale replica Lockheed Lightning.
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Teenie Two
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Texas Parasol
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Thatcher CX-4
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Thorp T-18 - see "T-18 Tiger"
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Thorp
T-211
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Thunder Gull/Earthstar Aircraft
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Thunder Mustang
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T-18 Tiger
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Tiger Aviation - See Quasar
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Tiger Cub UL
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Tipsy
Nipper
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Titan Aircraft
(Factory Site)
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Typhoon
(Homebuilt Aviation Ltd.)
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Druine
Turbulent. Mike Bennett has reproduced a 30-year-old brochure.
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Ultravia Pelican
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UTE-150
Citabria
Clone
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V-6 STOL
(modified
PA-22)
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VA-100
- a custom-designed canard aircraft.
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Vampire (See Sadler)
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Van's - See "RV"
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VariEze
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Velocity
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Venture
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Viki
Coaxial
Helicopter
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Vision
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Volksplane
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Volmer
Jenson rigid-wing gliders
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Volmer VJ-22 Sportsman
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Vortech
Factory
Site
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Vulcan Aviation
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Wag-Aero
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WAR Replica Fighters
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Warner Revolution - See Spacewalker
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White Lightning
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Ron Wilson Acrolight - See Acrolight
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Windex Factory Site
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Windrose Motor Glider
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Wittman - see "Tailwind"
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Wolf - See Boredom Fighter
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Wombat
Gyros Factory Site
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Zenair
Links to Homebuilding-Related Organizations and
Publications
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