Watch as NEO takes to the air for the first time at Mainz Airfield on October 31, 2011. NEO is the prototype of the new generation kit helicopter. The company reports the rotor is very responsive and that for yaw control the Jet Control System (JCS) requires only small inputs.
If your ultralight aircraft were torn up by a bear, could you tape it up with duct tape and fly it home? Mythbusters finds out (video preview). “Kari, Grant and Tory attempt to use a few rolls of $5 duct tape to replace an aircraft’s mauled-to-pieces $13,000 aerodynamic fabric covering. Hmm.”
The CAFE Foundation published a video report showing takeoffs and landings of the participating aircraft. Each aircraft’s efficiency is evaluated using special hardware to measure total energy output, whether as electricity or liquid fuel. The resulting metric of Passenger Mile Per Gallon or pMPG is used as a component of each team’s final score. Aircraft [...]
At AOPA Summit in Hartford, Garmin will unveil its latest portable, the touchscreen aera 796. Take a video tour of the navigator’s features, which include synthetic vision, enhanced chart functions, and a new touchscreen interface.
By Paul Bertorelli, AVweb Editorial Director Compared to Rotax and even Continental, Lycoming hasn’t had much of a presence in the light sport market. It does now. Lycoming announced this week that its O-233 four-cylinder engine is nearly ready for volume production and that a handful of airplanes are flying with it, including a [...]
My wife and I finally completed our Lockwood AirCam after nearly 10 years of work. It’s equipped with Rotax 912S engines, MGL EFIS and I-K Technologies engine instruments. The fabric and paint were applied using Stewart Systems products. We did all the work ourselves, including the paint. The airplane flew for the first time on [...]
Glasair Aviation’s Mikael Via introduces the new turbocharged, carbon-fiber-bodied Sportsman TC at Oshkosh 2010.
KITPLANES’ exclusive video highlighting the Europa Monowheel built by Kim Prout. His Europa is one of the highest-time examples in the U.S., and amply shows off the superb combination of agility and utility.
