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Durand Reinstatement
...as you’d expect from a 1970s aircraft, a bit antiquated, with a large four-inch attitude indicator that sounded like a turbine engine spooling up. All of the basic controls are...
Completions
...a GE T58-8 turbine, and the airframe has been highly customized. For example, the winglets were removed from the wings to a location on the aft fuselage. In the new...
2018 Engine Buyer’s Guide
...a complete firewall forward package for the Van’s RV-10; read the Amy Laboda flight review, “Turbine-Powered RV-10,” in the June 2015 issue of KITPLANES. We recently learned of two new...
Lance Hooley's Jet Eze
...structure modification, aerodynamic design, new design aircraft test flying, engine and system integration, turbine engine overhaul and maintenance, painting. It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a...
Best Practices – Batteries
...in turn leads to the temptation to arbitrarily increase gross weight. This is never considered a best practice. Protect your wires. A smoking radio can be turned off, but a...
Marvelous Mustangs
...receive an Innodyn turbine. He gave the engine the moniker “Mini Merlin,” but the belt drive proved to be problematic, so they moved on to the New Zealand-made Autoflight geared...
A Clever Engine Mount Solution
...between engine and firewall. Not the first time this has been done of course – turbine conversions come to mind – but something for builders to think about if they...
Adding Rigor
...entries, for starters. Helping others in my class (all the fine young folks getting their FAA licenses based on their military service as turbine aircraft maintainers) is forcing me to...
Lancair Sold!
...35 years of aviation experience to his new role, both as a business owner and pilot. With multiple ratings and over 17,000 flight hours in piston, turbine, helicopters and experimental...
Maintenance Matters
...one type of engine to another—reciprocating to turbine for example. The logbook should note the major change before the first test flight and be properly endorsed at the end of...
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New spark plugs always come with new washers—but if you're like most people,...
Around the Patch
Editor in Chief Marc Cook finds himself in the unique position of being able to compare performance of his GlaStar Sportsman with two different Hartzell props.
Safety Is No Accident: Van’s RV series
It’s been a couple of years since we looked at how homebuilts generally fared in the accident statistics vis-à-vis certified aircraft. This time around we’ll look at the safety records of specific homebuilt designs, starting with the Van’s RV.