Table of Contents
January 2010 Issue
Homebuilt Aircraft Directory
If you’ve got the itch to build from scratch, this year’s edition of the Plansbuilt Buyer’s Guide features a buffet of 142 kit aircraft models you can build and fly. Compiled by Cory Emberson.
Flight Reports
Flight Review: Jabiru J230 Light Sport
Marc Cook flies the nimble, LSA-compliant Jabiru J230, and finds the two-seater offers a smooth ride with a decidedly Outback attitude.
Flight Review: Horse Perennial
LeRoy Cook flies Larry Kinder’s award-winning Mustang II, a fast and fun homage to the legendary P-51 Mustang.
Builder Spotlight
The Independence Project: Avionics
It’s time to install the shiny, expensive boxes in the RV-12. Yes, the avionics package goes in… and it’s not as difficult as it used to be. By Dave Martin.
Dave Prizio and team build a paint booth (too small), test drive charcoal masks and bunny suits, and discover the joys of covering your homebuilt plane with $400 per gallon paint.
Builders share their successes.
Shop Talk
Ishmael Fuentes shows you how to protect and cool the hoses in your engine compartment by making a firesleeve.
Heat and avionics don’t get along all that well. Rather than installing a fan that runs all the time, Jim Weir suggests building and using a fan that runs only when you need it.
Designer's Notebook
Barnaby Wainfan examines a sneaky and sometimes little understood cause of in-flight scares and engine failures: carb ice.
Exploring
Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook looks at the editorial changes within EAA, and reinforces KITPLANES’ focus on homebuilding.
Dynon Announces SkyView EFIS Pricing. Edited by Mary Bernard.
Dick Starks and The Dawn Patrol saddle, er, trailer up and head to the Salute to Veterans Air Show in Columbia, Missouri. Who else could lend his crimping pliers to a couple of sailors to fix an F-18’s wiring problem?
Can a builder modify a Van’s RV-12 kit under the 51% rule? How about changing the gross weight of a RANS S-7? Plus, the FAA releases revised homebuilding rules. By Mel Asberry.
There’s a lot to know about aircraft oil: what to use, when to use it, when to change it. Steve Ells sheds some light on this essential fluid.
Dave Martin looks at the future of ultralight-like SLSA trainers, and what may be in store from the FAA.
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 January 2010 issue.
What's New
Dynon Avionics
Jabiru
Jabiru Pacific
Gathering of Mustangs
Mustang Aeronautics
The Independence Project: RV-12
Van’s Aircraft
Build a Bear: Texas Sport Cub
American Legend Aircraft Company
Firesleeve
Herber Aircraft Services
Engine Beat
ASL CamGuard
Castrol Oils
Conoco Phillips Oils
Shell Oils
Light Stuff
Buckeye Aviation
M-Squared Aircraft
Quad City Ultralight Aircraft
Quicksilver Aircraft
Valley Engineering
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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.
