With just 180 hours, a smooth-running Jabiru engine, and excellent condition, this 2006 Sonex TD offers light sport fun and ...

Sonex Highwing completes its first flight; more testing and performance data to follow soon. The post Sonex Highwing Takes First Flight appeared first on KITPLANES.

The small kit aircraft’s first flight took place on June 30 and was piloted by Sonex Advisory Board member Joe Norris.

According to Sonex, the Highwing prototype is designed to take advantage of the proposed new FAA Modernization of Special ...

In most two-seat LSAs you typically get two or three long wavelength, low amplitude phugoids as the aircraft returns to the trimmed speed, but the Sonex seems somewhat divergent in pitch, even though ...

Fancy Airplane Seats Have Nowhere Left to Go—So What Now? Upper and business class cabins have expanded to the point where the top tier resemble hotel suites more than passenger pods.

Expensive and erratic, in-flight Wi-Fi has been more of a punchline than a pipeline over the past decade. But 2025 has marked a sea change for the skies: the rollout of fast, and free ...

The Lycoming O-320 engine, a four-cylinder, horizontally opposed, air-cooled engine, is so reliable that they are still in use today despite being 70 years old.