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Best Practices – Batteries
...in turn leads to the temptation to arbitrarily increase gross weight. This is never considered a best practice. Protect your wires. A smoking radio can be turned off, but a...
Marvelous Mustangs
...receive an Innodyn turbine. He gave the engine the moniker “Mini Merlin,” but the belt drive proved to be problematic, so they moved on to the New Zealand-made Autoflight geared...
A Clever Engine Mount Solution
...between engine and firewall. Not the first time this has been done of course – turbine conversions come to mind – but something for builders to think about if they...
Adding Rigor
...entries, for starters. Helping others in my class (all the fine young folks getting their FAA licenses based on their military service as turbine aircraft maintainers) is forcing me to...
Lancair Sold!
...35 years of aviation experience to his new role, both as a business owner and pilot. With multiple ratings and over 17,000 flight hours in piston, turbine, helicopters and experimental...
Maintenance Matters
...one type of engine to another—reciprocating to turbine for example. The logbook should note the major change before the first test flight and be properly endorsed at the end of...
Rear Cockpit
...the reciprocal heading to the piston aces is that portion of the turbine crowd that got too much starch from the laundry. It’s all numbers and procedures to these guys,...
Becoming a Designated Airworthiness Representative (DAR)
...if that is your experience, but everything is fair game including turbine questions. It is not likely that you will be tested on that, if for no other reason than...
2017 Engine Buyer’s Guide
...as a complete firewall forward package for the Van’s RV-10. Contact Turbine Solutions Group in Deland, Florida, for more information, or read Amy Laboda’s flight review [“Turbine-Powered RV-10“] in the...
Continental Motors Group™ announces new Web Site
...full range of services: Continental Motors, Titan, and LYCOMING® piston engine overhauls. P&WC® PT-6™ turbine repairs, overhauls and parts sales. Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) services for single and twin...
In Case You Missed It
Aero ‘lectrics
Jim Weir describes some close encounters with power regulators of the plastic and metal-can kind.
Archive: October 1997
A sleek Lancair IV-P was on our October 1997 cover along with the blurb promising an over-gulf trip from Florida to Mexico.