Table of Contents
November 2009 Issue
Builder Spotlight
Chuck Berthe puts Team Tango’s Foxtrot 4 through its paces, and finds it to be a capable aircraft with the potential to be even better as the design is refined.
What’s the buzz? David Ullman looks at the past, present and future of the electric airplane.
Avionics Special: Construction Zone
Marc Cook succumbs to the siren song of the Garmin G3X, and clears the flight deck for an avionics upgrade.
Build a Bear: Moving Right Along
It’s starting to look like a Sport Cub. Dave Prizio gets to work on the systems and finishes the wings.
The Independence Project: Forward to the Fuselage
Dave Martin marches ahead with the Van’s RV-12, inventorying fuselage hardware, attaching the sideskins, working on other subassemblies and mating the tail cone to the fuselage. Progress!
Flight Testing: Static System Error — Theory and Practice, Part 2
In Part 2 of the series, Kevin Horton shows you how to gather and interpret flight-test data to identify static system error (spreadsheets included).
Bob Fritz uses a couple of HVLP paint guns in preparation for painting his Jabiru J250. Which one is the top gun?
Builders share their successes.
Shop Talk
A little music for the airways can make your flight a pleasure. Jim Weir shows you how to power any music device from your panel.
Designer's Notebook
These small additions to your aircraft can make a significant improvement in its pitch response and authority at high angles of attack. Barnaby Wainfan gives you the strake story.
Exploring
Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook saw some reasons to be cheerful at AirVenture, especially the upcoming refinement of the 51% rule for homebuilders.
Zenith offers a reduced price for its STOL CH 701 kit, featuring the 85-hp Jabiru 2200A engine. Dynon offers a rebate for Blue Mountain EFIS owners who trade in for the new SkyView units, as well as special upgrade pricing. Edited by Mary Bernard.
25th Anniversary: Change Is Good
At AirVenture 2009, Amy Laboda took the opportunity to talk with 12 key innovators in the world of Experimental aviation, with one question in mind: What do you think has been the most significant change in homebuilding aircraft in the past 25 years?
Dick and Sharon Starks bring the Morane to the Gathering of Eagles WW-I replica fly-in. Where The Dawn Patrol goes, adventure follows.
Dick and Sharon Starks and The Dawn Patrol make their annual, magical pilgrimage to AirVenture Oshkosh. Mix in a big, surly storm, the Wild Snorting Piglet, and an Air Force Brigadier General, and you’ve some something to write home about.
How are your cylinders doing? A differential compression test can uncover any problems—almost before they start. Steve Ells explores what the results mean, and what to do about them.
When can a project be registered as Experimental? Can a non-complying airplane be registered as an LSA? How is the 51% criterion determined? Answers to these questions come from DAR Mel Asberry.
The Australian developers of the Jabiru engine wanted to build a sport airplane. But when their original engine choice went off the market, they developed its replacement, too. By Dave Martin.
Kit Bits
Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha.
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Web Links in this Issue
Follow these links to visit the web sites of companies you read about in the November issue.
What’s New
Zenith Aircraft
Dynon Avionics
Team Tango Foxtrot
Team Tango Foxtrot
Electric Airplane
Aviation Green Prize
E-Flight Initiative
Electric Aircraft Corporation
Electric Airplane Symposium
SkySpark
SolarImpulse
Yuneec E430
Build a Bear: Texas Sport Cub
Texas Sport Aircraft
The Independence Project: RV-12
Van’s Aircraft
Static System Errors
ASI Calibration Spreadsheet (“asi_cal.xls”)
Data Analysis Spreadsheet (“SSEC_
Kitplanes.xls”)
“How to calibrate your ASI,” July 1989
OAT Probe Recovery Factor Spreadsheet (“OAT_K_factor_determination.xls”)
Test Card
Gathering at Gardner
Aerodrome, Aircraft & Aces of WW-I
Airdrome Aeroplanes
Circle of Honor
Replica Fighters Association
The Dawn Patrol
S51 Aircraft Site
Airdrome Aeroplanes
F4U-1A Corsair 82% Scale Replica
Graham Lee Nieuport Replicas
Loehle Aircraft
Replica Fighters Association
War Aircraft Replicas
W.A.R. Buddies
Engine Beat
Aircraft Tool Supply (compression testers)
Lycoming Engines
Teledyne Continental Motors
Ask the DAR
FAA: Listing of DARs
Light Stuff
Jabiru
Jabiru USA
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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.
