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Wind Tunnel
...out of an airframe, there is a temptation to pull the cg as far aft as possible without making the airplane dangerous or unpleasant to fly. The reduced tail download...
Shop Safety
...a flail with sharp edges that could either give you a nasty cut or pull you right into the spinning headstock. There’s a temptation to pull this continuous chip like...
Aircraft Handling: What’s It Mean To You?
...axis instead of enjoying the flight. So this gives me a short list at first blush: the short wing RV series (RV-3 through RV-8), the Turbine Legend, the F-1 Rocket...
Lancair Evolution
...barely a four-place airplane. Move up to the turbine version, which currently uses a Walter 601E capable of 700 shaft horsepower, and the fuel requirement moves upward with it. A...
Lancair Evolution
...four-place airplane.Move up to the turbine version, which currently uses a Walter 601E capable of 700 shaft horsepower, and the fuel requirement moves upward with it. A belly tank added...
Engine Beat
...simply want the shortest, straightest tube (of the right diameter) to blast into the turbine wheel. Lockheed sums up: With a turbo, exhaust velocity and temperature are the name of...
Sun N Fun News: Epic Announces Big Plans, Introduces Two New Models
...kit called the Escape and a single-turbine called the Victory. Although Epic will be opening a research and development center in Canada, kit production will remain at the company’s Bend,...
The HeloWerks WASP: The Industrys First Turbine-Powered Two-Place Kit Helicopter
A year after its splashy public debut at Sun n Funs Choppertown in 2005, HeloWerks has announced receipt of an Experimental airworthiness certificate for its turbine-powered WASP helicopter prototype. According...
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...
Turbo Power, Part 3
...the turbine A/R (nozzle size) by swapping the turbine housing for a larger one was not going to be possible because we already had the biggest one (0.83 A/R) installed....
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