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Engine Directory
2010 Engine Buyer’s Guide
The first of our two engine guides looks at the more traditional aircraft powerplants. Compiled by Cory Emberson. Text by Marc Cook.

Builder Spotlight
Builder Profile: Orange Appeal
Marc Cook profiles a rookie Copperstate show winner: a spectacular F-1 Rocket with a distinct Harley vibe.

The Independence Project: A Power Finish
The engine and prop complete the building phase, and the RV-12 is ready for the flight test phase. By Dave Martin.

All About Avionics
Stein Bruch reviews the airborne weather choices for the homebuilder, using technology undreamed of only 20 years ago.

Buying Used Lightning Detection
Avionics guru Larry Anglisano examines the market for used lightning-detection gear.

Datalink Weather: Long-Term Exposure
Marc Cook relates his experience, more than four years' worth, with XM-sourced inflight weather.

Build a Bear: Keeping It Real
Dave Prizio and his Build-a-Bear crew get the Texas Sport Cub ready for flight testing, and take to the skies.

Dual Time
It’s a stool! It’s a set of chocks! It’s both. Chuck Deiterich shows you how to craft one with PVC pipe, plywood and some hardware.

Completions
Builders share their successes.

Shop Talk
Aero 'Lectrics
Vibration is not good for engines, airframes or instruments. Jim Weir explains how to fashion vibration analysis equipment for less than retail cost.

Designer's Notebook
Wind Tunnel
Aerodynamic flutter has been a recent concern in the homebuilt world. What exactly is flutter? What causes it? Barnaby Wainfan clarifies an often misunderstood and potentially dangerous phenomenon.

Exploring
Around the Patch
Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook looks at the changes within Lycoming and how they affect kit builders, as well as Superior Air Parts’ future since Thielert’s bankruptcy.

What's New
A glare shield for Garmin GPS units; Sportair USA’s certified pre-owned LSA program; quick reference for aera and AV8OR Ace; Better Half VW announces Legal Eagle XL. Edited by Mary Bernard.

Rendesvouz with Destiny
Dick Starks and The Dawn Patrol attend the biennial Rendezvous on hallowed ground: the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.

Product Review: Garmin’s New aera
Paul Bertorelli reviews Garmin’s latest offering, the aera. It’s compact, powerful and versatile.

Down to Earth
Amy Laboda’s Kitfox 4, Little Bird, won’t break any speed records. But it will tuck nicely into a short turf airstrip in time for a barbecue.

Ask the DAR
What do you need to do when you buy an Experimental/Amateur-Built aircraft? What should a builder/owner do when they’re ramp checked? By Mel Asberry.

Experimotive
Rick Lindstrom looks at Maxwell Propulsion’s upgraded FWF system, and peeks into the system’s future.

Light Stuff
Dave Martin’s Spacewalker II makes room for his recently completed RV-12, and heads east to its new owner in Ohio.

Kit Bits
Letters

List of Advertisers

Builders' Marketplace

The Classified Builder

Download KITPLANES® in PDF
Download the complete March 2010 issue of KITPLANES® in one PDF file.

Kit Stuff
Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha.

Headlines
KITPLANES sits down with Advanced Flight Systems' founder Rob Hickman to examine his new synthetic-vision EFIS.
 
JPI's Lance Turk explains the features of the new JPI EDM-740.
 
Ever wonder what it takes to be the largest kit manufacturer in the world? KITPLANES editor Marc Cook takes a tour of Van's Aircraft in Aurora, Oregon.
 
KITPLANES editor Marc Cook visits Matco Manufacturing near Salt Lake City to see how the company's brakes, wheels and master cylinders are built.
 
Get an inside look at how Dynon builds and tests its electronic flight instruments.
 
Kitplanes Magazine contributor Ed Kolano takes a first look at the Sherpa utility aircraft.