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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....
Turbo Power, Part 1
...the turbine inlet is the part that gets the hottest and handles the most pressure. The EGT drops several hundred degrees across the turbine, and the pressure at the turbine...