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Engine Update
...figures, a hallmark of this new design is standard FADEC (full authority digital engine control). It’s not a true FADEC in the way the turbine world uses the term, where...
JPI EDM-900 Engine Analyzer at SNF
...with CD cell bias, EGT/CHT/TIT, USB port for downloading and uploading, a non-primary instrument area, turbine inlet temp and more, plus a message area where all functions show up by...
2012 Engine Buyer’s Guide
...quiet on the news front. (Plus, Lancair has been focused on refining and delivering the turbine Evolution, a surer bet in a soft, limited-volume market.) But it’s not dead, insists...
The Ultimate Upgrade
...the engine to 19% Ng—that’s the gas generator part of the turbine, the component the starter actually spins—and that’s above the minimum requirement. The igniters work, though it is too...
Super Cub Kit Comparison
...that purpose. Backcountry Super Cubs Backcountry Super Cubs traces its origins to the Smith Cub kits, which then became Turbine Cubs of Wyoming and later Backcountry Cubs. So in one...
Free Flight
...miles of parched, flat, dry lake bed to pick out the source of a soft, distant hum: the sound of turbine engines spooling up to take-off thrust. Focusing on the...
Alternative Energies
...used by wind turbine developers and salespeople, spam deflector software for PCs, an electrostatic powder-coating system used to coat John Deere gators their familiar green, a CD/DVD storage system, an...
Higher, Faster, Stronger
...picking up infrared heat. In the simplest sense, a turbo installation is merely the addition of a turbo-supercharger device with two main components. Think of the turbine as an encased...
The Ultimate Upgrade
...flow pack, which controls turbine bleed air used for cabin pressurization. Other items seen include the brake fluid reservoir, a ground bus bar, and two ammeter shunts. The space between...
Completions
...to my wife, Barb, for her love and support. Blue Grass, Iowa delftr@aol.com Scott Ehni’s Zenith CH 701 This is our scratch-built turbine Zenith CH 701. It first flew on...
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