DeltaHawk will be the first to admit they’ve been plodding along on the diesel engine certification project like…forever. Actually, it’s been 14 years. But they think they’ll have a production engine available this year. Here’s KITPLANES editor Marc Cook with an update.

Aircraft engine development isn’t exactly a major growth industry, but we do see new products from time to time. At Sun ‘n Fun, KITPLANES editor Marc Cook talked to Gus Warren about the unique, lightweight UL Power engine for LSAs and kit airplanes.

The MySky MS-1 prototype is a clean sheet design that emphasizes the “sport” in Light Sport Aircraft. “We really wanted a little military fighter in the design and maneuverability of the tandem-seat MySky,” said Captain Timothy Plunkett, vice president of MySky Aircraft, Inc., based in Port Orange, Florida. “We stuck to the ASTM and built [...]

Belite Electronics introduced its Patch Flyer solid-state avionics package at Sun ‘n Fun on Friday. Designed for Part 103 ultralights, the Patch Flyer instruments are truly ultra-light, weighing only 15 grams (1/2 ounce) each. “You can have the entire line, all eight instruments, in your panel, and the whole thing weighs less than one pound,” [...]

Build A Plane, a non-profit organization working in a formal partnership with the FAA to promote aviation education, is now offering AeroScholars, two online aviation courses that have been developed specifically for high school students who want to learn more about aviation. The two courses, Fundamentals of Aviation Science and Advanced Aviation Science, were written [...]

Acknowledging that pilots, of all people, are mobile creatures, at least two major catalog companies announced new applications for pilots that can be used on the iPhone, iPad or even the Kindle during Sun ‘n Fun 2010. Sporty’s Pilot Shop announced an App that allows pilots to view its training videos on their iPhones, iPod [...]

George Bye, CEO of Bye Energy, located in Greenwood, Colorado, is confident that a hybrid aviation engine that can be a drop-in replacement for aging Lycoming O-360s is on the horizon. He should know, since he is currently up to his elbows in the development of just such an engine. Bye, a Lindbergh Foundation Grant [...]

The word is coming down in an advanced NPRM any day, according to Robert E. Hackman, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs for AOPA. “EPA has decreed that by 2015 we must get the lead out of avgas,” he said during a forum at the Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In. The key point, he reiterated, is that whatever [...]