Table of Contents
October 2010 Issue
Flight Reports
Flight Review: Revival of the Fittest
Part Husky, part Cub, the Bearhawk Patrol evokes 1940s-era shapes but with the benefit of today’s advanced manufacturing. By Chuck Berthe.
Flight Review: Lockwood Super Drifter
Like piloting an AirCam, only more so, the Lockwood Super Drifter is for those who can’t get enough of that wind-in-your-hair feeling. By Ed Wischmeyer.
Builder Spotlight
All About Avionics: Flight-Control Systems
As the industry matures, the sheer variety and capabilities of autopilots for Experimental/Amateur-Built aircraft are flourishing. By Stein Bruch.
Bob Fritz visited the TechShop workshop in Menlo Park, California, and got to play with lots of big, shiny toys that any homebuilder would covet.
Builders share their successes.
Designer's Notebook
An ill-fitting joint where the wing joins the fuselage doesn’t leap to mind as a foremost source of induced drag, but the effects can be significant. By Barnaby Wainfan.
Exploring
It’s unclear what will constitute the standard fuel for General Aviation once leaded fuel is phased out by the EPA. But what is clear is that the stakeholders need to become informed and voice their opinions to the decision-makers. By Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook.
Lancair is under new ownership, Dynon updates its SkyView software, design rights for the Murphy Renegade are for sale, and you can treat your pet to in-flight oxygen with Aerox’s system. Edited by Mary Bernard.
Safety Is No Accident: Canards
The appeal of canard-type designs hasn’t faded, and the design was heralded as inherently safer because of its resistance to stalling. Ron Wanttaja reveals the veracity of that claim given the accident numbers.
As the prospect of leaded aviation fuels fades into the sunset, the search is on for a replacement, and you may not like where things are headed. By Marc Cook.
Mike Loehle, of Loehle Aircraft, discusses the development of his aero coatings system and details some of the pre-paint prep process.
Dick Starks offers some sage advice about how to get back to working on a project that has been sidelined for too long.
Rotec has a new throttle-body injection system that’s worth looking at. By Steve Ells.
When do service bulletins have the force of law with regard to Experimental/Amateur-Builts? By Mel Asberry.
There are many reasons that building your own airplane takes awhile. Columnist Paul Dye details the pitfalls of completing one seemingly simple maintenance task, which brings into focus the bigger picture.
What do you get when you combine the ambiance of a military fighter with the design constraints of a Light Sport Aircraft? The MySky MS-1. By Dave Martin.
Kit Bits
Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha.
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What’s New
Lancair International
Dynon Avionics
Patterson AeroSales
Aerox
Wings of Freedom Flitplane
Revival of the Fittest
Bearhawk Aircraft (nee AviPro Aircraft)
Lockwood Super Drifter
Lockwood Aviation
So Long, Lead
AvWeb
ASTM Fuel Standards
GAMI G100UL
SwiftFuel
All About Avionics: Flight-Control Systems
Advanced Flight Systems
Dynon Avionics
Garmin
MGL Avionics
Trio Avionics
TruTrak Flight Systems
Hands On: Soup to Nuts
Loehle Aircraft
The Home Machinist
TechShop Workshops
Engine Beat
Rotec Engineering
Ask The DAR
FAA Airworthiness Directives
Completions
Ted Sutton’s Highlander YouTube Channel
Light Stuff
MySky
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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.
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.
Advanced Flight Systems' Rob Hickman details the company's new 5000-series big screen EFIS at Oshkosh 2010.
Spidertracks introduced a new, smaller, less expensive GPS tracker here at Oshkosh 2010. Rachel Donald explains the main features of the unit and the website that supports it.
CubCrafter's Randy Lervold gives us the skinny on the new Carbon Cub Adventure package introduced here at Oshkosh.
Glasair Aviation’s Mikael Via introduces the new turbocharged, carbon-fiber-bodied Sportsman TC at Oshkosh 2010.
