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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...
Comp Air 6.2 Prototype Flies in to Sun ‘n Fun
...6.2 for a Walter M601 650 HP turbine. Comp Air is still in flight testing but is confident enough to begin turning out kit packages. The advertised price of the...
Do Diligence
...operation costs. Deeper in the weeds were the odd turbine, rotary and diesel concepts. The brochure numbers always seemed to pencil out nicely, with emphasis on pencil. Options came and...
Always Attack
...turbine. He said it was a delight to fly, but never as much fun as the Mustang, largely due to fuel management. It burned 300 gallons of fuel an hour—5...
2023 Propeller Buyer’s Guide
...propellers for single-engine planes as well as feathering and reversing systems for piston and turbine twins. Recent STC approvals were five-blade propellers for the King Air 300/350, three-blade props for...
2023 Engine Buyer’s Guide
...the heat, not the gasses themselves—to the intake air, which in the case of turbines raises their efficiency. Common on large stationary turbines, recuperators on small turbines walk a fine...
Jets & Turboprops
...the Sonex SubSonex single-seat jet. Heron Engines Heron, a Greek company keeping its corporate headquarters on the nearby, business-friendly island of Crete, is building on four decades of small turbine...
Gone Pro
...cargo-moving business is these days, it hasn’t taken long for him to lay down solid blocks of turbine time. In not quite three years he passed 1200 hours total time,...
AirVenture Notes
...year the all-new turbine was from Heron, a new Greek company with long family roots in small turbine design. We covered the details of the tiny, 82-pound, 130-hp GVA-130 prototype...
Archive: August 2008
...couldn’t get out. ‘I lusted for a turbine Beaver, the dream airplane for a bush guy,’ Orchard said. ‘When you research the market, there isn’t much else out there to...
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Letters
Spackling Paste? Wow!I commend Vince Homer for his exhaustive study of spackling paste as...
A Higher Velocity
Marc Cook reviews the new twin-turbo Velocity TXL from Velocity Aircraft. Among the benefits of the new configuration, which includes two Garrett turbochargers on the Continental engine, is power that keeps performance consistent well into higher altitudes-to the tune of 250 knots at FL250.
