TCW Technologies is known for being the company with the products that can save the expensive avionics in your homebuilt in the case of a crippling power surge, sag or complete loss of electricity. The company introduced two new products at AirVenture, a 24-volt Intelligent Power System (IPS-24V-5A) and a revision of the signature integrated [...]
Set your alarm clocks for early on September 1 and be online at www.trutrakap.com if you are one of the many who have been waiting to order a TruTrak Flight Systems Gemini drop-in replacement digital PFD autopilot system. The Gemini PFD fits in the standard 3.125 inch panel cutout, and replaces the airspeed indicator, altimeter, [...]
This year’s AirVenture show is full of options for aviators looking to port in the free government-sponsored ADS-B weather. NavWorx brought its PADS portable box, and several moving map gps and geo-locating charting systems seem eager to port the information into their programs via the box’s bluetooth connection. One of the least expensive entries into [...]
Sport Copter, Inc., of Scappoose, Oregon, is back at AirVenture this year with a kit for a two-place gyroplane meant for serious loitering and reconnoitering. Marv Wessel, who has completed his first kit, built it with the express idea of using it in search and rescue operations. His Sportcopter II is equipped with a gimbal-mounted [...]
Flight planners found on the Internet all have their own special niche. Some are designed to cater to the jet-set, and others are just a little more than scanned sectional or en route charts with weather information superimposed upon them. The best of them are anything but free (and I’m not complaining, because a well-designed [...]
Are you looking to rebuild a Lycoming, and you’re hungry for power? Pause here and take a look at what Phoenix Power Products of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, has brought to AirVenture. The company has created a cylinder just for Experimentals that encompasses several critical changes, including a new combustion chamber with a “squish” area, which [...]
If you are an Vedeneyev M14 radial engine owner, or even thinking you might be, pay attention. I’m talking to you Murphy Moose builders now. Monty Barrett, principal at Barrett Precision Engines in Tulsa, Oklahoma, wants to help. He’s put a lot of time and energy (even went to Russia) trying to fix some of [...]
Belite Aircraft President and CEO James Wiebe has won the 2011 August Raspet Award, one of the most prestigious honors bestowed by the Experimental Aircraft Association each year. Wiebe has joined a lofty club of individuals that includes the first winner of the award, John Thorpe, and other notables with surnames ranging from Wittman to [...]
