Thunderbirds Roar at Sun 'n Fun

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You want an airshow? You got an airshow. When the skydivers drop in and Old Glory unfurls, you know it's showtime as people gravitate...

Sporty’s Takes Learning to the Web

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Sporty’s Pilot Shop is known for its innovation in flight instruction materials. But it’s common knowledge that earning your pilot certificate is simply a...

Briefing and Flying in Paradise City

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Before flight, pilots get their morning briefing for the Paradise City pattern and, as happens, things had changed since last year, necessitating more detail...

Now This Is More Like It…

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Now this is more like what we come to Sun 'n Fun to see--an Apollo Fox LSA and a Lucky 2 ultralight lifting...

New Insight Engine Monitor and So Much More

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A buddy intercepted me on the flight line, and said there was this new engine monitor on display that you could use to balance...

Celier Aviation Xenon Shines in Chopper Town

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It’s taxicab yellow and bulbous on the bottom, but when Mike Bantum fires up the turbocharged intercooled Rotax 912 on the Celier Xenon gyroplane,...

Show Shopping Without Stopping

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Still, not everyone stops and gawks during the afternoon airshow...some get busy and shop to take advantage of the lighter crowds in displays knowing...

Scheme Designers Goes 3-D

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Craig Barnett, principal of Scheme Designers, which creates unique paint schemes for aircraft of all makes and models, is beaming like a proud parent....

New Products: Overhead Lighting Console

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Aircrafters of Watsonville, California, is now the exclusive distributor for a new, lightweight, multipurpose overhead lighting console designed and manufactured by Pegasus Aeromarine, Inc....

Scheme Designers Goes 3-D

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Craig Barnett, principal of Scheme Designers, which creates unique paint schemes for aircraft of all makes and models, is beaming like a proud parent. He says that it has always been a challenge working with some customers who have trouble visualizing what a paint scheme will look like on their airplane from a two-dimensional rendering.Face it, thats flat, Barnett says, and most aircraft have lots of curved surfaces. It is just hard for some people…

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Hawking That New Engine

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After 20 years the long-gestating DeltaHawk diesel is suddenly hotter than Jeff LaVelle’s turbos on a 400-mph lap.

Sizing an Avionics Cooling Fan

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How much is enough?

Labeling

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As builders, we often have a pile of parts to turn into something resembling...

Buzzwords: Maneuvering Speed

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Ed Kolano unravels some of the misconceptions of the oft-misunderstood term, “maneuvering speed,” and explains the implications for pilots of homebuilt aircraft.