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Kitplanes Magazine: Your Homebuilt Aircraft Authority. We cover topics relevant to anyone who has ever dreamed of building or owning a homebuilt experimental aircraft.

New Hartzell 5-Blade Carbon Fiber Prop Boosts Speed, Climb Rates for...

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Evolution Aircraft has completed extensive performance and noise testing confirming the performance improvements of the new Hartzell five-blade composite swept-tip constant-speed prop for the...

Airbly's Cockpit Canairy Monitor

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Big data is a big thing for airlines, which monitor flights in real time to track maintenance and anomalies. Now the same capability is...

Zenith Announces New 180-hp SAM-EX

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This week at AirVenture, Zenith Aircraft, the new owners of the SAM aircraft design, introduced the SAM-EX. Based on the prototype SAM aircraft introduced...

From Our Junior Reporter

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I tried out a VR headset at the Aeroshell booth. VR stands for Virtual Reality. The headset offers a 360-degree camera view, with motion...

L-3 Aviation Products Announces Lynx ADS-B Products and Support for Experimental...

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With the new LynxDirect program, it's now possible for builders and owners of Experimental/Amateur-Built aircraft to self-install the Lynx line of ADS-B products. L-3...

Belite SkyDock Offers Fun, Affordable Flying

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Belite Aircraft's SkyDock has been updated with an attractive molded carbon fiber fuselage. The lightweight aerodynamic design creates a fast, efficient aircraft or one...

Free Access to Dassault Systèmes’ SOLIDWORKS for EAA Members

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EAA provides members with free access to Dassault Systemes SOLIDWORKS Student Design Kit, which includes: EAA Maker Edition software, MySolidWorks online video tutorials, the MySolidWorks Manufacturing Network, and related training and design resources.

Levil Aviation Adds Data Recorder to Wireless AHRS, GPS, ADS-B Receiver

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With the release of the new iLevil 3 series, Levil Aviation has added yet another feature to wireless AHRS, GPS, ADS-B receivers. The iLevil...

GRT Avionics Announces Instant Upgrade of 6.5-Inch Horizon WS to 7-Inch...

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GRT Avionics makes it easy to upgrade the 6.5-inch Horizon WS to the high-resolution, 7-inch Horizon EX with synthetic vision, enhanced moving map, and...

AvMap Announces App and Web Portal for EngiBOX Integrated Engine Management...

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AvMap has introduced an innovative service called EngiBOX Portal, where users can monitor the performance of their engine anytime and anywhere as an extension of EngiBOX, the engine monitoring system launched last year.

In Case You Missed It

Forgetting How?

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Overheard comments are often the most interesting, probably because your brain is in a...

Garmin aera 796: Portable Syn Vision

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Garmin builds on its portable product line with two new navigators: the aera 795 and 796. Paul Bertorelli reviews these synthetic-vision capable units.

Hide the Hinge

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“Trick” hinge mods that are simple to incorporate into certain hinged assemblies.

Stressing Structure

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Axial stresses and the stress strain diagram.