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One Week Wonder Returns With the Super Cruzer
EAA will build a Zenith CH 750 Super Cruzer in seven days at AirVenture 2027, and it is recruiting builders and ambassadors to help. The post One Week Wonder Returns With the Super Cruzer appeared first on KITPLANES .
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Where Garmin and Dynon Stand on Integrated Flight Panels
Garmin AXIS puts IFR GPS, nav/com and audio inside the display and ships now; Dynon is moving them behind the panel. Where each OEM stands for builders. The post Where Garmin and Dynon Stand on Integrated Flight Panels appeared first on KITPLANES .
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Three Homebuilts Join the EAA Aviation Museum
Six aircraft join the EAA Aviation Museum, including a scratch-built World Cruiser, John Moody's Icarus II ultralight and an Epps 1912 monoplane replica. The post Three Homebuilts Join the EAA Aviation Museum appeared first on KITPLANES .
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New Rules for Getting Your Homebuilt Certified
Order 8130.2M frees Phase I flight testing, sends new homebuilts to a different FAA office and explains how owners amend their operating limitations. The post New Rules for Getting Your Homebuilt Certified appeared first on KITPLANES .
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Understanding Stalls
Angle of attack, not airspeed or nose attitude, decides when a wing stalls. LeRoy Cook connects the textbook stall to what pilots feel in the cockpit. The post Understanding Stalls appeared first on KITPLANES .
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Have You Seen Your Oplims?
“I can’t answer that question until I see your operating limitations.” “My what?” I looked at Roger with a look of puzzlement. “Operating Limitations. They should be behind your airworthiness certificate.” It was Roger’s turn to look puzzled. “But I didn’t build the airplane.”…
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Vortex Generators
From a KITPLANES reader: Why do vortex generators creating turbulence help wings create lift at high angles of attack? Good question Shawn, and thanks for reading. I’m going to preface my answer with stating that I’m more of a structures guy than aerodynamics, so if I don’t get…
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Something New On The Horizon
Long ago a reader sent me a photograph of a workbench. On it sat a half-finished rudder, a coffee can of Clecos, and a copy of KITPLANES folded open to a builder article, the pages gone soft at the corners from being handled with shop hands. He wrote that one issue or another of…
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Should You Consider A Whole Aircraft Parachute?
The rugged landscape unfolded in front of me. Forest stretched for as far as I could see, interspersed with small lakes in the mountain valleys. These were not the kinds of mountains found out west, but they were imposing nevertheless, given that I was in a tiny homebuilt…
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Custom Cowl Fabrication: Building the SR-1 Composite Cowl
The cowl for the SR-1 was the last set of molds to be produced for the project. I had originally planned to use a UL Power engine but by the time I began work on the firewall forward (FWF) it was clear that a modified Rotax from Edge Performance in Norway would provide superior…