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Meet the Grizzly
If you want a turbine-powered amphibious kit airplane, and the Murphy Moose-about like a Cessna 206-isnt big enough, what do you do? Well, if you’re AeroTek Aviation, you design and...
To Launch a Light Sport
...should resist the temptation to modify them; just take advantage of the great service Sensenich offers. With the spinner in place, I was ready to resume my fitting of the...
All About Avionics
...types anymore. At a minimum, you’ll be monitoring these temperatures: exhaust (EGT), head (CHT), turbine-inlet (TIT) outside-air (OAT) and oil (OT). Youll also be watching these pressures: manifold (MP), oil...
ViperJet Redux
...Internal Turbine Temp (ITT) for a hot start. When the engine is idling, the starter becomes the generator, the ignition is turned off, and the fire is self sustaining. Gulp…...
Letters
...the glide ratio is 18.6:1-still very impressive. Any idea on what the weight difference will be between the turbine and piston versions?Kurt Hanke Until Lancair actually mounts one of the...
25th Anniversary: The Glasair-Lancair Wars
...staked out the high end (adding the IV-P and turbine variants), and S-H retooled into the more modest (and now nearly as numerous) GlaStar utility aircraft. When you look back...
25th Anniversary: Homebuilts – The Enduring Soul of Innovation
...Lancairs new turbine Evolution is, I think, revolutionary. Rocket Racing, using the Velocity canard, is testing advanced propulsion systems and alternative fuels. Composites are now routinely used on the most...
Lancair Evolution
...demanded respect from its pilots. Pressurization necessitated air conditioning, then more fuel, and then came a turbine engine. The IV platform evolved to and beyond its natural limits, and it’s...
To Launch a Light Sport
...are not on the pedals. You pull back on a lever on the center console while controlling direction with the pedals. I keep thinking I’ll have to resist the temptation...
Contributors
...us. Dougs vast experience with turbine aircraft and familiarity with hot rock homebuilts didn’t quite prepare him for the Evolution, which stalls like a Cherokee 140, he says. Read the...
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