News: Cheap(er) Cubs for Sun 'n Fun

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American Legend Aircraft has just announced special pricing for both its ready-to-fly Light Sport aircraft and the kitbuilt Texas Sport Cub. The airplanes are...

Marc's Sportsman: Fun and Games With Pitot and Static

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Every two years, as regular as rain on Saturday in Seattle, we're supposed to test the pitot-static system and confirm that the transponder and...

News: Lancair Continues Flight Testing Its Evolution, Releases Prelim Performance Stats

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Lancair continues to put hours (and now four flights) on its Evolution turboprop in the run up to Sun 'n Fun. According to the...

Rick & Ace’s Folly…er, GlaStar: Tales of the Repeat Offender

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The "Repeat Offender" epithet isn't really mine. KITPLANES editor Marc Cook bestowed it upon me when I recently advised him that I was building...

Amy's RV-10: Just Rewards

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I knew it would run eventually; I just didn't know when. I thought that the leaking right fuel tank would slow our RV-10 build...

Oshkosh and Sun 'n Fun Too Far Away?

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Spring is upon us, and you’re itching to go fly to an airshow, but fuel prices and travel time are holding you back. There’s...

New Products: Garmin Introduces GPSMAP495

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Two weeks before Sun 'n Fun, Garmin has introduced a new model to its portable GPS lineup, the GPSMAP495. While rumors have been circulating...

Marc’s Sportsman: The Annual, Exhausted Already

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One thing I knew would happen this annual: The pesky, albeit very small, exhaust leak that I found at the last oil change would...

Quickbuild RV Workshop

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Tackling even a quickbuild aircraft kit can be daunting, but now there's a way to get help with at least one type of aircraft, the popular RV series. Synergy Air has scheduled a five-day course titled Quickbuild Strategies based on the Vans quickbuild kit for the RV-7, -8, -9 or -10. The information provided in the course applies to standard kits as well. …

Garmin Introduces GPSMAP 495

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Two weeks before Sun N Fun, Garmin has introduced a new model to its portable GPS lineup, the GPSMAP495. While rumors have been circulating for some time that a successor to the popular 496 was about to be released-with the most common belief that it would have a different form factor than the -96 series and a touch screen-the 495 is more of an addition to the middle of the line rather than an expansion…

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Free Flight

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Acknowledging risk and taking steps to minimize it are safer than denying that it exists.

Wind Tunnel

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Design process, part 4-more about speed.

Lying to Baristas

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The year is 2021. Fear surrounding the pandemic has subsided a bit and the...

Completions

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Builders share their successes.