Dan said it with very good words for advice. Read number 3, many times.

In aviation now for 40 years, I have seen many Kits companies, just
looking for Kit Investors
so they can build or finish the Proto-type aircraft. Be very careful
with the Advertisers.

CAUTION, Many aircraft builders end up with AIDS (Aviation Induced
Divorced Syndrome)
Always pick a aircraft that your girl friend or wife likes and can work
with you.

Stay away from a buddy partner in a aircraft project, unless maybe
your Father.
I have see many, many partners lose interest in the project and want
their investment paid back.
It happen to me in the 1960's. I did finish the project and got it
flying.

It is a must, to get a flight in a 2 place aircraft you like. Pay him
the money for the flight as a thank you.
Check out the Demo's pilots experience for advice on the plane. Many
times the Builder-Pilot will say
"It is the best plane he ever built and flown" Then you later find out
this is the second type he has ever
flew. His first airplane was a C-150 that he got his Private pilots
rating in.

Join the EAA and attend Oshkosh Airventure. www.eaa.org

A Magazine with a good source of information, with some very good
editors is Kitplanes.
The October 2006 issue, has some very good information articles for
you.
Read, Barnaby Wainfan, Wind Tunnel, page 68. He does write about the
good and bad information of the aircraft.

Their are some editors that will take a 45 min. to 1 hour flight in a
aircraft and write a 6 page story about it.
Then they always list the positive flight fetchers of the plane, never
the negative ones. They sound like
they work for the Companies advertising Dept.

You will be investing a good part of your life in time and money.

You want the aircraft you love!!!

Larry Fitzgerald

www.fitzair.net