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The Independence Project: Avionics
...and com antennas; 8-32 hex nuts are reached through inspection holes on the bottom of the fuselage to attach the com antenna. The transponder antenna is fastened through its hole...
Wind Tunnel
...antenna cover on the aft fuselage. It also tends to occur on engine nacelles on multi-engine airplanes. Adding suitably placed VGs can reattach separated flow on a bluff after-body without...
Dynon Announces Release Date for Next-Gen EFIS
...receiver/antenna potted into a small exterior-capable puck; it will provide redundancy with any panel-mounted GPS in the airplane. Finally, the SkyView will be designed to integrate with Dynons autopilot servos....
Letters
...squealing in the headsets. While antennas on all-metal aircraft usually present few problems, antennas on fabric or composites can be difficult to engineer. Most all-metal aircraft inherently shield transmission energy...
All About Avionics: Wiring Bundles
...install certain items. Think about where you’ll put your antennas, where the strobe power packs will go, where the ELT will be, where and how the autopilot servos might be...
Aero ‘lectrics
...what? A dipole antenna (two ears, like a TV rabbit ears) is a balanced antenna: two equal length ears or elements (surprisingly, a quarter wave long) fed in the middle...
SPOT, Checked
...many improvements in antenna design and signal processors lately, but just turning the SPOT on is no indication that it is actually processing a signal. And, for that matter, just...
To Launch a Light Sport
...transponder and radio and installing the antennas. It’s important that you not get ahead of yourself here. Push the transmit button or turn on the ELT without the antennas installed,...
Letters
...SPOT glosses over some pretty serious shortcomings of that product, including its inability to reliably relay a message from beneath even moderate tree cover, or any other time the antenna...
To Launch a Light Sport
...or you’ll nick the wire, inducing a stress-riser. Antenna Considerations Now that Im hooking up the radios I did some research on antennas. I was immediately buried in jargon and...
In Case You Missed It
Do-It -Yourself Aircraft Jacks
Having completed two basic welding courses, I was a solution looking for a problem.
Dan Parker and the Altitude Airplane
Dan Parker was just another enthusiast looking to make his mark in aviation with some kind of crazy, notable project. Then he came across the Facet Opel, current altitude record holder, and the race was on. Since then, hes been working on his airplane full time, hoping to break the existing record, and along the way hes come up with some innovative and exceptionally efficient building and design practices.
Old Plug Washers Never Die…
New spark plugs always come with new washers—but if you're like most people,...