Annual Directory, Part 3 2010 Rotorcraft Buyer's Guide If your taste in aviation runs to the rotor, dig in to this year’s edition of the Rotorcraft Buyer’s Guide which features a panoply of helicopter and gyrocopter models you can build from a kit or from scratch. Compiled by Cory Emberson. Flight Reports Flight Review: Mission Ready Bush plane? Heck, yeah! Bill Repucci flies Just Aircraft’s strong, tough and fun Highlander. Builder Spotlight Builder Survey: Wilderness Calling Lucky 13: RANS S-7 Coyote builders tell KITPLANES about their building, company support and flying experiences. By Mary Bernard. All About Avionics: Electrical Connections Building a plane? You’ll need connectors. Stein Bruch shows you what to use, where to put them and how to make a quality connection. Build a Bear: Some Assembly Required Much more than Tab A into Slot B: Team Prizio assembles the Texas Sport Cub. By Dave Prizio. Completions Builders share their successes. Shop Talk Aero ’Lectrics Jim Weir’s lifetime’s worth of tinkering has produced a definitive list of electronics parts suppliers, and he’s willing to share. Designer's Notebook Wind Tunnel Airplanes are surprisingly flexible, and changes in their shape can affect aerodynamic characteristics. Barnaby Wainfan explains how the two are coupled. Exploring Around the Patch Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook comments on Zenith Aircraft’s turbulent year following several in-flight breakups of CH 601XL Zodiac aircraft, and the company’s response with an extensive update kit. What’s New Garmin expands online training and Sky-Tec introduces ST5 starters for Continentals. Edited by Mary Bernard. ADS-B and Experimental Aircraft More acronyms? Amy Laboda details the integration of ADS-B into the ATC system, and what it means for the Experimental aviation community. Cut the Can, Man Inspecting your filter after an oil change is a good idea, but what tool is best for opening the can? Bob Fritz tests the gamut of oil filter cutters so that you don’t have to. Engine Beat Removing your oil filter is not nearly as easy as putting it on. Steve Ells shows you how to take it off without turning your workshop into a Hazmat site. Ask the DAR Can a powered parachute be classified as Experimental/Exhibition if it missed the ELSA deadline? By Mel Asberry. Light Stuff LSAs are fun, and being able to make that water landing—and takeoff—in one is even more enjoyable. Join Dave Martin as he samples the Progressive Aerodyne SeaRey LSX. Kit Bits Letters List of Advertisers Builders' Marketplace The Classified Builder Kit Stuff Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha. Download KITPLANES® in PDF Download the complete February 2010 issue of KITPLANES® in one PDF file.
Follow these links to visit the web sites of companies you read about in the February issue.
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.
KITPLANES interviews Jeremy Monnett after the roll-out of the light, efficient, single-seat Onex at Oshkosh 2010.
KITPLANES' exclusive video highlighting the Europa Monowheel built by Kim Prout. His Europa is one of the highest-time examples in the U.S., and amply shows off the superb combination of agility and utility.
Annual Directory, Part 3
