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Sweet Harmonizin’
Raising the bar on a history of quality, performance, handling and comfort One of the very first LSA I flew was the Evektor SportStar, an all-metal, low-wing monoplane with a cute bubbly profile and a...
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Gipps Airvan: Don’t Call It A Caravan
This innovative Australian single emphasizes the principle that less really can be more When you think of dedicated utility airplanes, what's the first machine that comes to mind: a Cessna Stationair,...
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Carbon Dating
Beautiful, refined, muscled like a linebacker: a Cub for the hotrod soul He's a big man. Played football in his youth. Could pass for Paul Newman's brother. Has flown airplanes for decades, and is...
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Diamond's Twin For 2012
The Diamond DA42 comes with your choice of Lycoming GASOLINE or Austro diesel engines The first Diamond DA42 was introduced in 2005, and was the first certified, all-composite multi aircraft,...
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The Americanization Of Alto
There’s a mod for that—making the perfect plane, Ron-Corbi style The all-metal Corbi Air Alto 100 is powered by a 100 hp Rotax 912 ULS and cruises at 110 knots. Air-conditioning is offered as an...
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Cirrus SR22 GTS: The Perfect Plane?
Why Cirrus Aircraft’s successful single might be the ultimate cross-country machine Rated at a conservative 315 hp, the Continental TSIO-550-K factory-turbocharged engine is limited at 2,500 rpm,...
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Kiss & Bristell
Friendly, refined, beefy for rough-field training, yet a cruiser’s delight Although my typical demo flights average under 45 minutes, you can still learn a lot about an airplane in less than an hour....
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Big-Time Adventure
Tackling the wilds of Utah in a do-it-all turboprop It only takes one low-level flight through southern Utah to see why many consider it to be one of the most beautiful places on the planet. It's not...
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The Look-Homeward Angel
Twisting through the sky in the first SLSA two-seat aerobat! The Comet is the first fully aerobatic two-seat SLSA and the first biplane SLSA. The golden Florida sun is living up to its reputation this...
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Diamond's Family Star
Diamond’s innovative, four-place Star offers performance and efficiency beyond its price Fixed-gear singles have assumed the mantle that once belonged to retractables. Back in general aviation's modern...
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The Lively Bird
Highly refined, impeccably built and what a delight to turn loose on the sky The Rans S-7LS Courier, newly reworked for 2012 by its brainy, creative, airplane-loving designer Randy Schlitter, has been...
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Soloy Cessna 206 Mark II
Transplant a 450 SHP Rolls-Royce turbine onto a stock 206 and, voilá, you have a super Cessna Soloy's Mark II is not your "typical" bolt-on conversion. From the aerodynamically clean cowling to the new...
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The Little Jet That Can
The Eclipse 500 is back, and this time, they’ve done it right The world looks different from 41,000 feet. Climb to nearly eight miles above the sea, and you'll note some dramatic changes compared to...
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Sling 2: The Soul Of A Fighter
The new Sling LSA from South Africa has the world on a string Sliding the bubble canopy forward with a satisfying "thunk," I looked at the panorama around me—I could see our island destination in the...
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Mustang Teaching Machine?
Flying the airplane is easy. Mastering the systems is the challenge. For many pilots, speed is the narcotic that attracted them to the discipline in the first place. Everyone agrees that airplanes have...
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The Sleeper
Is this the low-cost, cheap-repair, rugged LSA trainer that everybody is overlooking? The BushCat from South Africa is powered by an 85 hp Jabiru 2200 engine and has a max cruise speed of 105 mph....
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Husky Dawn Patrol
Aviat’s new Husky and the Northern Idaho backcountry make a perfect pair The early morning sunlight glinting off the crystal waters of Lake Pend Oreille (roughly pronounced "pond-o-ray") and reflecting...
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Way Ready For Prime Time
Amphibian dreams vs. reality: here’s a classy amphib in full production Nature abhors a vacuum. Three years ago, Plane & Pilot publisher Mike McMann saw the SeaMax at the Sebring air show and said,...
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The Epic LT
Do It Yourself Rocket Ship ep·ic [ep-ik] adj: extending beyond the usual or ordinary especially in size or scope, majestic; impressively great Sometimes, a name says it all, and the story of the Epic...
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The Alpha Bet
Is this the best-yet trainer for learning the ABCs of flight? Late last November, Pipistrel founder, Brainstormer In Chief and head honcho, Ivo Boscarol, announced a major new aircraft project—the...
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