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Torque and P-factor
...Wikimedia Commons) The problem of torque causing difficulties with roll control reappeared when people started to install turbine engines on some composite kit airplanes originally designed around piston engines. Turbines...
Composite Sheared Wingtips
...Bondo cures too quickly, mix up more Bondo and add the fillet. Avoid the temptation to pop the mold off just yet! We still need to do the other side...
Shopping for Batteries
...including piston, turbine and electric applications. Our survey turned up only 33 respondents who own Aerolithium batteries, but comments were favorable on the company’s dry-cell batteries that have a three-year...
Night Flight
...night vision degradations, making using oxygen earlier and longer often appropriate. Another consideration in certain areas, especially mountainous, is to avoid the temptation of flying direct. Instead, choose an old-school...
TurbAero’s Small Turbine Update
TurbAero, an Australian company with footprints in the U.S. and Canada, is continuing work on its small regenerative turbine for light experimental aircraft. At Sun ‘n Fun, we talked to...
Comp Air 6.2 Prototype Flies in to Sun ‘n Fun
...6.2 for a Walter M601 650 HP turbine. Comp Air is still in flight testing but is confident enough to begin turning out kit packages. The advertised price of the...
Do Diligence
...operation costs. Deeper in the weeds were the odd turbine, rotary and diesel concepts. The brochure numbers always seemed to pencil out nicely, with emphasis on pencil. Options came and...
Always Attack
...turbine. He said it was a delight to fly, but never as much fun as the Mustang, largely due to fuel management. It burned 300 gallons of fuel an hour—5...
2023 Propeller Buyer’s Guide
...propellers for single-engine planes as well as feathering and reversing systems for piston and turbine twins. Recent STC approvals were five-blade propellers for the King Air 300/350, three-blade props for...
2023 Engine Buyer’s Guide
...the heat, not the gasses themselves—to the intake air, which in the case of turbines raises their efficiency. Common on large stationary turbines, recuperators on small turbines walk a fine...
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Laps and Lapping
Lapping was an important step featured in two recent columns. Last month’s gauge block...
