Luca Perazzoli
Luca “Luke” Perazzoli earned his pilot’s license in 1989 and has logged more than 2,000 hours in 25 different types of aircraft. He currently flies a Van’s RV-8 that he built in 2010. Luca leads the aerobatic team CREWRV8 and is a mountain glacier pilot. An EAA Technical Counselor, Flight Advisor, Italian DAR, and experimental aircraft flight test pilot, he is very active in the RV-Pilots.eu group. As president of EAA Chapter 1581, he is focused on Young Eagles activities and guides an RV-12iS teen-building project. Luca also teaches flight testing, metal building, and aircraft electrical systems for the Italian EAA.
No Limits!
Marco Cherubini is a paraplegic, but that didn’t stop him from building an RV-7 and fulfilling his dreams of flight.
In Case You Missed It
Restoring the RV-1
The very first Van’s prototype flies again, thanks to months of volunteers’ hard work, and its designer climbs back into the cockpit, some five decades after he built it.
Super Legend HP
The ASTM Titan engine finds another home in a new kit from American Legend. And yeah, its a hotrod. By Paul Bertorelli.
All About Avionics
Much of our focus in this series has been on the latest and greatest electronic gadgetry. But traditional instrument packages, the so-called six-pack, have their benefits. Avionics wizard Stein Bruch extols their virtues and explains their vices in this months installment.