CAPABLE HOMEBUILT PERFORMER STOL model can be constructed for around $100,000 BY DAVID TULIS PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE FIZER AND THE AUTHOR M 60 ark Goldberg winced as pebbles from the unimproved runway in central Mexico flicked paint away from the Texan's newly constructed Van's Aircraft RV-8 low-wing homebuilt. He had just landed in Puebla and was eager to greet the family that housed and cared for him when he was a student at the University of the Americas in the 1970s. AOPA PILOT / November 2021