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With Aero mere days away now, excitement is growing for the electric aircraft event-within-the-event. Visitors can tour around the entry foyer hall where the e-flight-expo will be located. This year offers a few highlights, provided to me from my publisher friend Willi Tacke in Germany. One aircraft not many Europeans and even fewer Americans have […]

Tecnam’s new two-place has quick moves and can play rough

Tecnam Astore SPECIFICATIONS Price: Standard, $147,000 with carbureted 912ULS, to $176,000 with optional avionics packages. Turbocharged Rotax 914UL2, as flown, $24,900. Engine: 115 hp Rotax 914UL2 Propeller: Three-blade Sensenich, 5.67-ft. diameter Length (ft.): 23.0 Height (ft.): 7.54 Wingspan (ft.): 28.4 Wing area (sq. ft.): 131 Standard empty weight (lbs.): 809 Max. takeoff weight (lbs.): 1320 […]

Put a little rudder in it

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According to a report in the North Bay (San Francisco) Business Journal, Icon will build its first 20 A5 LSA seaplanes before the end of 2015. Certainly in the LSA space, this can best be described as “much-anticipated event.” At an annual meeting of the Solano Economic Development Corporation, the Business Journal reported, guest speaker […]