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Turbine Legend
...design was due for some improvements. It needed more fuel to feed the thirsty turbines. The landing gear needed an upgrade, including better brakes. The turbines were lighter, which resulted...
Turbine Murphy Moose/Beast Makes Big Splash at AirVenture
...turbine management system. As a crop duster, Kenny had thousands of hours behind turbines, mostly Pratt and Whitney PT6 engines. In fact, Kenny is a test pilot for Cascade Aircraft...
New Turbine Venom Hits the Skies
The latest version of the Turbine Legend – the Venom has made its first fight in Florida, and the company is promising to complete its flight test program in the...
Heron Turbine
...range once in full production, but that is still approachable for any sort personal aircraft engine and sets the bottom of the market for turbines. A free turbine, the Heron...
Another Way to Turbine Your Lancair IV-P
...compared to the Walter. (Turbines act like normally aspirated piston engines, slowly losing power with altitude.)According to Advanced, the Garretts fixed-shaft design provides less turbine lag. Initial performance numbers are...
Super Seawind – Turbine Power!
How’s this for something new? I met Steve Wightman today, owner and builder of the only turbine-powered Seawind. Starting from a skeleton Quick Kit in 2005, and after 15,000 man-hours...
TurbAero’s Small Turbine Update
TurbAero, an Australian company with footprints in the U.S. and Canada, is continuing work on its small regenerative turbine for light experimental aircraft. At Sun ‘n Fun, we talked to...
The Super Guppy Turbine (or SGT)
...currently flying Super Guppy Turbine (SGT), operated under NASA (whose mission is specified to be research and development) airworthiness authority and is far from a “Standard” category aircraft. No passengers...
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Disintegrated Drive Coupling
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It’s a Cub Thing
With a bigger engine and lighter airframe, CubCrafters’ Carbon Cub EX kit aircraft takes the Cub experience to a higher plane. By Marc Cook.
Ed Zaleski 1947–2019
Ed Zaleski was in so many KITPLANES® photos that he should have been on the payroll.