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X-Air LS: Pilot’s Best Friend
Super affordable, low maintenance, doesn’t bite: Give this doggie a bone!In the world of canines, as in the world of S-LSA, there are so many choices. Greyhound: sleek, beautiful, speedy. Australian...
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Piper Matrix: The Second-Year Test
A year after Piper shut down the Saratoga HP, the Matrix helps pick up the slack When Cessna introduced the P210 back in 1978, I was one of those idiots who predicted they’d have a hard time selling...
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Flight Design MC: Full Metal Concept
A born trainer, this spacious, docile workhorse flies like Wichita tin You want to fly the MC?,” asks Flight Design’s amiable national sales manager, John Gilmore. I’m at the company tent during...
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Evolution Of An Original
The Lycoming-powered Evolution turns in turboprop performance on a piston budget The piston-engine Evolution is powered by a Lycoming TEO-540-AE2A engine and has a max cruise of 270 knots. The...
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High-Class Cruiser
Metal/composite construction, gorgeous lines, top-o’-the-line luxury—splendid!This is the story of three jaw-dropping moments that followed my introduction to the gorgeous, new Tecnam P2008. The first...
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DA 42 In The Second Generation
The Diamond Twin Star now has its own Austro AE300 turbo diesel enginesIn seeming obedience to the time-honored directive on how to make a small fortune in the airline industry (start with a large...
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2010 Remos GX Avıator II The Joy Of Flight
Nimble, solid, lovely, well-built and what a hoot to fly A high, dense line of clouds has moved over Great Barrington Airport (GBR) in western Massachusetts. My erstwhile Remos demo pilot, recent...
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Cirrus SR22T: Turbo Without the STC
Cirrus Design now offers a turbocharged model with a factory Continental Has it really been a full decade since Alan and Dale Klapmeier introduced the first version of the airplane that would...
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Capetown Racing
Light-sport floatplane that's a joy to fly America has far more lakes than airports. By itself, my home state of Minnesota has more lakes than the entire nation has airports. Given this 50:1 advantage,...
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King Kong "Little" Cub
CubCrafters’ top LSA offers a big surprise when the throttle goes forward I used to have a buddy in the drag-racing business who claimed that given enough horsepower, you could push a Peterbilt through...
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Step Up To The Super
Yes, it is a NEW airplane To stare out at the world from either seat in a Waco is to wonder where we’ve been and where we’re going. At first, it seems a confusing mélange: struts and brace wires and...
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Fixed-Gear Speed Demon
We fly the latest turbocharged Corvalis two years after Cessna bought the Columbia line of composite singles If you fly most of your flights on the West Coast or rely on your airplane for on-demand...
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Sirius TL-3000: High society—In blue jeans
Elegant, sexy, high-performing...and oh so friendly It’s not every day you fly an airplane where sensuality in form joins a flying function so affable, you wonder if you’re flying the same airplane you...
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Sports Sedan Of The Six-Place Singles
Largest of the Bonanzas, the G36 nevertheless retains the type’s excellent performance and control harmony It’s hard not to love a Bonanza, especially if it’s the stretched model 36. The Bonanza has...
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Evektor Sportstar Max: An LSA For All Seasons
Mature, stable, fun, comfortable: Evektor’s superb Sportstar max offers the whole package I stand by the Evektor SportStar Max at the 2nd Annual Midwest LSA Expo in Mount Vernon, Ill., talking with a...
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Cessna 170A: Rebuild Of A Lifetime, Literally
Jacobson passed his checkride in this cessna 170A in 1962, and look at it now One of the benefits of writing about airplanes for a living is that I’m often entrusted to fly some truly wonderful...
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World's Best Trainer
Diamond Aircraft’s entry-level trainer hopes to lure new pilots to the company’s innovative line of aircraft The lady in my life, Pilot Peggy, is in the process of learning to fly. She started in a...
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Backcountry Monster: The Legend Of Bigfoot
Expedition Aircraft introduces a tailwheel version of its bush-country workhorse Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings,” wrote Gordon Lightfoot in his wrenching ballad about the sinking of the ore carrier...
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Cirrus Merges With CAIGA
The pioneering aircraft maker to be acquired by a Chinese company In a milestone development, Cirrus Industries Inc. officials announced on Feb 28th that Cirrus Aircraft will be sold to China Aviation...
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Rans Coyote II S-6LS: The Proud And The Playful
Highly refined, quick and lively, light and strong: What’s not to like? In American Indian lore, the coyote is a mythic totem, known variously as the prairie wolf, God's dog and the trickster. The...
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