ElectraFlyer-C Concept Airplane Flying

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Randall Fishman, the principal of Electraflyer, manufacturer of the Electraflyer Trike ($18,385 complete), a legal ultralight sporting a battery-powered electric engine is currently...

AveoFlash LED Aircraft Lighting Dazzles

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It's not often that I see a product that just stops me in my tracks, but upon entering Hangar B, I was like a...

Dunham Makes the Most of AirVenture

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It’s hard to say who was having more fun at comedian/ventriloquist Jeff Dunham’s show at AirVenture's Theater in the Woods on Wednesday night: Dunham...

Small Wonders at the Seaplane Base

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It's Thursday at AirVenture and the weather is great so, with feet worn out through hiking the booths and flight lines, I took the...

Garmin Expands Pilot My-Cast Features

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Garmin's subsidiary Digital Cyclone has upgraded its cellphone-based weather delivery system, Pilot My-Cast, expanding both the types of cellphones supported, and the weather products...

30,000th Homebuilt Certified

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On July 31, in AeroShell Square, during the 2008 EAA AirVenture show, Acting FAA Administrator Bobby Sturgell allowed EAA President Tom Poberezny to award...

Continental News: Cool Stuff Now, Lots More To Come

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In the Continental tent, back behind the vinyl wall separating the unwashed masses from the journalistic elite—that’s a joke; we were just as hot...

Oshkosh's New Tower a Boon for Airshow Fliers and Controllers

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Standing tall at 141 feet above Wittman Field is AirVenture's newest and tallest, and most useful structure, a new air traffic control tower, and...

Batteries Not Required – Lightspeed Zulu:P

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Lightspeed Aviation announced its newest iteration of the Zulu ANR headset—the Zulu:P. Running from panel power instead of two AA batteries, the Zulu:P uses...

Jump the Gun on Lightspeed's Trade-up Options

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Lightspeed Aviation's upgrade and trade-up options are midway through their 2008 rollout. Option A is a direct rebate program that allows you to upgrade...

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Kit Stuff

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Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha.

Letters

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Timing MagnetosDave Prizio's article on external timing of magnetos (October 2013) provides a very...

Turbine Moose: The Ultimate Amphib

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Its said that sailors make good floatplane pilots because they understand the nature of wind on the water. Sailboat racer and pilot Rick Orchard took that sentiment to heart in a big way when he decided to pump up an already large homebuilt (the Murphy Moose) by adding Aerocet amphibious floats and a 550-horsepower Pratt & Whitney PT6A-20 turbine engine.

Flying to All 50

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With Hawaii and Alaska out of the way, I decided to visit the other 48 states.