I am building a Van's RV-8 — a small, fully aerobatic, two-seat experimental aircraft — in my garage in Cupertino, California. The goal is to build it, fly it, and eventually take it on a long-range journey back to Pakistan. This site is a chronicle of that build: the work, the mistakes, the lessons, and the progress.

The RV-8 is a tandem-seat, tailwheel aircraft designed by Richard VanGrunsven. It is offered as a kit: thousands of parts, blueprint drawings, and assembly instructions. You build it yourself.

Van's RV-8 interior layout drawing

Van's RV-8 interior layout. Drawing from Van's Aircraft.

A completed and flying RV-8

A completed Van's RV-8. Photo by Robert Frola, GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons.

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About This Project

While living in the United States, I picked up what I call a little Americanism: building aircraft at home. Exploration and aviation have been deeply American from the start — from the barnstormers of the early 20th century to the thousands of homebuilders today registered with the EAA. The common man, his tools, his garage, and his dream of flight.

The domain of this project spans geography, manufacturing, aviation, and the grassroots spread of workmanship at the home and community level. Read more →

About This Site

This site was crafted in HTML and CSS in April 2026, with no WordPress, no framework, no JavaScript. It is intentionally simple, fast, and permanent. The design draws inspiration from the personal websites of the 1990s and 2000s: the era when builders, hobbyists, and enthusiasts published their projects on the open web with nothing but a text editor and a dial-up connection. That spirit feels right for a homebuilt aircraft project.

The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. Source code is available at github.com/bibrakc/uran-khatola-factory.

Built with assistance from Kiro AI.