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The Ultimate Upgrade
...flow pack, which controls turbine bleed air used for cabin pressurization. Other items seen include the brake fluid reservoir, a ground bus bar, and two ammeter shunts. The space between...
Completions
...to my wife, Barb, for her love and support. Blue Grass, Iowa delftr@aol.com Scott Ehni’s Zenith CH 701 This is our scratch-built turbine Zenith CH 701. It first flew on...
Ask the DAR
...about the inspector must be included. The next two paragraphs, limitations 24 and 25 will be issued in lieu of limitations 22 and 23 for turbine-powered amateur-built aircraft. (24) This...
Learning To Weld
...joint. He also taught me the value of tack-welding. My temptation, once a bead was started on a joint, was to keep going. Soon enough, it became apparent this wasn’t...
The Ultimate Upgrade
...the builder, it would require some pretty good sheet-metal fabrication skills and a thorough knowledge of turbine engines, both of which are in short supply among typical Evolution builders. The...
Alternative Energies
...of addressing our future energy needs, self-launching wind turbines would twirl about at the end of long tethers and send megawatts of power to substations on the ground. To this...
Riding the Radial Rocket RG
...doesn’t take a whole lot of aviation snobbery to admit the airplane would lose a lot of its no-nonsense, yesteryear visual appeal with a horizontally opposed or turbine powerplant. Designer...
Ask the DAR
...the major change includes installing a different type of engine (reciprocrating to turbine) or a change of a fixed pitch from or to a controllable propeller, the aircraft owner must...
Editor’s Log
...Craig Sherman prepare for a training flight in the Radial Rocket RG last June in Reno. Later, Ackland went to work at Performance Aircraft developing the turbine Legend kit (a...
The Adventourer Kit Heli from Composite Helicopter Debuts at AirVenture
...Carbon fiber and Kevlar composite construction with power from a single turbine engine (either the RR250 C20B/J or the RR250 C18/T63) make for a potentially impressive package, though the helicopter...
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Metal Magic: Intro to Riveting
Introduction to driven rivets. Learn how to judge the size of rivets you need and how to tell if you've driven them correctly.
Simplified One-Off Electronic Projects
As homebuilders, we are accustomed to doing a lot of preliminary and/or tooling work to build a couple of pieces for our aircraft. Tom Kuffel created an auxiliary fuel transfer pump controller for his GlaStar Sportsman for next to nothing, a real savings over the retail price of $300, and he describes how he did it.
Archive: November 1997
Ron Wanttaja sampled the still-new Van’s RV-8 for our cover story in the November...
