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Resurrected Helicycle Appears at AirVenture
...a new venture building a single-place personal helicopter called the Helicycle in Nampa, Idaho. The Helicyle was sleek, but somewhat underpowered, until someone had the idea to make it turbine...
The Luxury Tool
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Skiplane Shangri-la
...the tundra despite the freeze-over and raffish extreme cold temps. In addition to Mike’s Patrol, an Experimental 4-Place Bearhawk utility aircraft and a Cessna 185 went along for the temptation....
Design Process: Flap Types
...weight and complexity because the wing loadings required for piston-engine and single-engine turbine aircraft are not high enough to require the very high maximum lift coefficients offered by multiple-slider flaps....
Powering a Mystery
...Legend,” which later swapped the V-8 for a Walter M601 turbine. Fred Geschwender died of cancer on July 18, 1998 in Lincoln, Nebraska, and production of his reduction units seemed...
Electric Dreams
...different to installing a Type-Certified piston powered or turbine engine. The engine is Type-Certified under Airworthiness Standard CS-22 Sub-part H, Amendment 2, which should be recognized by all the mentioned...
Design Process: Stall and Roll Damping
...almost always be a washout, where the wing is twisted leading edge down at the tip relative to the root. There appears to be a temptation, particularly in the homebuilt...
Fun With Emissions
...mainly aimed at turbine engines such as this Rolls-Royce Trent upgraded with their ALECSys lean-burn technology. Reducing piston engine emissions by any meaningful amount would mandate completely new powerplants. (Photo:...
Archive: December 2002
...reported on the new Affordable Turbine Power engine, a modified Solar T62 turbine engine originally used as an auxiliary power unit for large aircraft. Weighing a claimed 187 pounds, the...
Weighty Matters
...fuel isn’t measured in gallons, it is measured in pounds. I have flown large turbine aircraft for the last 33 years, and I can count on two fingers the times...
In Case You Missed It
The $30,000 RV-9A
Two builders helped each other build RV-9As, each employing significantly different outlays of cash. The results are impressive in both cases, but for different reasons. They help us ponder the question as we build: “What is something worth?” By Marc Cook.
Light Stuff
This years Sebring Expo was a harbinger of the future for Light Sport Aircraft, and it appears relatively steady. By Dave Martin.
