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Under Pressure
...compressor section of a turbine powerplant inherently reduces thrust performance and fuel efficiency, which must be accounted for. Compressing air also heats it to levels too high for cabin use,...
Sonex: Under New Ownership
...both the piston and turbine experimental aircraft markets with its current products. In addition, new products and development priorities include: The JSX-2T two-seat SubSonex Personal Jet, scheduled to debut at...
Big Screen EFIS 2022 Buyer’s Guide
...limited to engine and fuel flow and quantity data (or to pistons—there’s a turbine interface, too). There’s wing flap and trim position sensing and indication (compatible with most trim motors),...
Birds of a Different Feather
...spinner. Below it is the front air intake where the turbine in the original Turboprop Tucano breathes fresh air. In a replica, the cooling system for the Rotax can be...
Plug In Power
...hit the starter and he’d make Phoenix on time… Witnesses say that for a precious few seconds the prop on that little Mooney spun like a turbine. At least until...
Engine Monitors
...per hour. Fuel flow is measured by a fuel flow transducer—a device installed in the fuel line that’s essentially a turbine that converts to a digital signal using light optics....
TurbAero Update from AirVenture 2022
KITPLANES checked in with TurbAero’s Bernie Breen on the development of the company’s 200-hp turbine engine for homebuilts. A partially built Van’s RV-7A (renamed the RV-7T) will be the company’s...
I Spy With My Little Eye
Harley Milne with the uAvionix Ping2020i. From the enclosed cockpit of a powered aircraft, perhaps single-engine piston or multi engine turbine, have you ever caught a glimpse of something out...
Archive: May 2003
...the magazine showing three models: one with a nine-cylinder M-14P, one with a 400-hp, eight-cylinder Lycoming IO-720 and one with a 750-hp Walter turbine. The high-wing taildragger continues to be...
The AirCam Experience
...as well as having attached a small turbine to the top of my SubSonex, I can speak to the huge time savings of the AirCam installation, and Lockwood said that...
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I affectionately refer to my Jabiru light-sport as being a “low high-wing” airplane. This...
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STOL Brothers
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