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Choice Aftermarket Stops for Turboprops
Put new life in your legacy turboprop or bring a high-performance piston into the jet age! Aftermarket specialists can upgrade your engines, retrofit your interior, install a glass panel and more.
Green Flight Challenge Down to Final Three!
Updates 10/4/11 and 10/5/11 — Congratulations to Pipistrel for their unprecedented third win at a NASA Challenge. Picking up a cool $1.35 million, the company won with their unorthodox dual Taurus G2 fuselages joined by a larger, centrally-mounted electric engine. The custom-configured, four-seat aircraft achieved an amazing 403 passenger miles per gallon of fuel (or […]
Lockwood Rotax and Bristell at AOPA Summit 2011
At AOPA summit I spent time in the Lockwood Aviation booth giving me a chance to speak with a few RV-12 builders. *** Van’s has reportedly sold approximately 600 RV-12 Light-Sport Aircraft, of which 150 may be flying, making RV-12 by far the most successful Experimental LSA. RV-12 would among rank high among all Light-Sport […]
A Pair of New SLSA Arrive Before AOPA Summit 2011
Just in time for this year’s AOPA Summit, welcome to a pair of Special Light-Sport Aircraft, numbers 121 and 122: the first, the formerly named NG 5 LSA, rebadged as the Bristell Fastback by importer Liberty Sport Aviation of Pennsylvania; and the second being the fourth approval for Pipistrel, specifically for their Sinus motorglider (previous […]
Remos GXNXT
Remos GXNXT Price as flown: $164,648 Engine make/model: 100 hp Rotax 912 ULS Cabin width (in.): 46.8 Max takeoff weight (lbs.): 1320 Empty weight (lbs.): 718 Useful load, full fuel (lbs.): 602 Wing tank capacity (gals.): 22 Wingspan: 30 ft. 6 in. PERFORMANCE Max cruise speed (kts.): 105 Vs (kts.): 43 Vso (kts.): 38 Best […]
The Game Changer
Why air-show star Rob Holland is expecting big things from the new MX Aircraft MXS-RH
October Shows Aim to Strongly Support LSA Sector
Just when you thought the airshow season was over, well… except for AOPA’s Summit starting in 10 days, here are four events in October, every one with substantial or exclusive Light-Sport Aircraft attention. |||| First up is LoPresti-Powered LSA fun at the Sebastian, Florida airport where the “speed merchants” are based. Before the event starts […]
Two New (Yet Familiar) LSA Return to America
Here’s a tale of two planes. One has been seen and sold in the U.S. (Lambada motorglider). The other has a fascinating history and should look familiar to you… quite familiar. It’s now known as the NG 5 LSA and that probably rings no bell. However, NG 5 and the #2 ranked SportCruiser share a […]
