Table of Contents
October 2009 Issue
Builder Spotlight
Builder Profile: Fly on One…You’ll Understand.
Matt Hlavac’s open-air Breezy is a simple, fun way to fly … and, oh, the view! By Mary Bernard.
Builder Profile: Fred & Pam’s Great Big Airplane Adventure
Fred Darnell’s Murphy Super Rebel Moose is a real heavy hauler, and a pussycat to fly. By Bill Repucci.
The big truck bringing Dave Prizio’s Texas Sport Cub arrives, and the inventory and painting processes begin.
All tapped out? Bob Fritz lets you in on his secrets for retrieving broken, over-torqued and stripped screw heads.
The Independence Project: Tackling the Tail
Dave Martin and the builders of Chapter 292 break out the rivet guns and bucking bars, and work on the RV-12 tail.
Flight Testing: Static System Error, Theory and Practice
Flight testing requires precise airspeed calibration and measurement. A less-than-optimal pitot-static system can compromise those numbers. Here’s how to troubleshoot the problem. By Kevin Horton.
Builders share their successes.
Shop Talk
Shop Talk: V-Block Drill Jig from Scrap
Having problems drilling a precise hole in a tube? Ishmael Fuentes has the perfect–and inexpensive–solution with this nifty, easy-to-make V-block drill jig.
If you’ve got sticker shock after shopping for a main electrical system junction box, Jim Weir will ease your pain with a junction box you can build (and a cool color-coding system, to boot).
Designer's Notebook
Got separation anxiety? Vortex generators can keep the airflow attached where it belongs. By Barnaby Wainfan.
Exploring
Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook explodes the not-invented-here myth, and explores what makes our panel equipment ergonomically sound…or not.
Belite Aircraft’s prototype meets Part 103 weight requirements; Continental Motors unveils the new O-200 Lightweight Engine for Light Sport and kit aircraft. Edited by Mary Bernard.
25th Anniversary: Engine Monitoring Comes of Age
What’s happening behind that firewall? Marc Cook traces the lineage of engine monitors over the past 25 years.
Buzz Words: Understanding Dihedral Effect
While certified airplanes have to meet Part 23 requirements for positive dihedral, amateur-built airplanes are exempt. Ed Kolano looks into the details of dihedral, and how you can use it to your airborne advantage.
Music to a mother’s ears. Amy Laboda preps the family Kitfox for her older daughter’s primary training.
What’s in Jean, Nevada? Most of the year, not much. But when the alternative engine crowd comes to town, the place starts to buzz. By Rick Lindstrom.
Steve Ells explains the science of alternators, and offers some tips for understanding and troubleshooting problems with the system.
DAR Mel Asberry clarifies what notification the FAA expects when a prop has been changed. His advice? Treat it like a major mod.
The Texas Sport Cub is the latest in a line of planes with the venerable Cub lineage. Dave Martin flies one and discusses the various licensing options available.
Kit Bits
Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha.
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What's New
Belite Aircraft
Continental Motors
Murphy Moose
Patterson AeroSales
Build a Bear
Aircraft Technical Support
Texas Sport
The Independence Project: RV-12
Van’s Aircraft
Static System Errors
NASA Reference Paper 1046, Measurement of Aircraft Speed and Altitude
“How to calibrate your ASI” (KITPLANES, July 1989)
ASI Calibration Spreadsheet (asi_cal.xls)
Test Card
Experimotive
Belted Air Power
Contact! Magazine
Las Vegas Valley Soaring
Maxwell Propulsion
Light Stuff
Texas Sport
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At AOPA Summit in Hartford, Garmin will unveil its latest portable, the touchscreen aera 796. Take a video tour of the navigator's features, which include synthetic vision, enhanced chart functions, and a new touchscreen interface.
KITPLANES talked to PS Engineering’s Mark Scheuer about the new PAR100EX Experimental-class audio panel with a communication radio.
KITPLANES talks with Zenith Aircraft’s Sebastien Heintz at Sun ‘n Fun 2011.
KITPLANES gets the scoop on Garmin’s developments and rebates for the G3X EFIS at Sun ‘n Fun 2011.
KITPLANES caught up with Dynon Avionics at Sun ‘n Fun to get a glimpse of the new DX15 handheld com radio.
KITPLANES tours the Whirlwind Propeller factory where the firm's fixed-pitch and ground-adjustable propellers are made, as well as the blades for Whirlwind constant-speed props.
