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    Inherent, quiet?

    Sling (kits from South Africa) have recently been working on their “Sling Whisper” option, which adds an exhaust muffler to their Rotax installations, significantly reducing engine noise to the point that the biggest source of the noise ends up being the prop...
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    Horrible news from Vans Aircraft

    There really is no connection. Van's never really compromised with the 51% rule (the core of the MOSAIC changes). There never was any major event or scandal regarding the safety or airworthiness of Van's kits or models. Their record has always been extremely good. Also, I wouldn't call this a...
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    Electric Plane vs Electric Car

    To add a bit of detail to the spoiler, the trip took seven hours for the car, and an extra hour for the plane (because it had to stop for two and a half hours to recharge). There was no speed limit (this was in Germany, on Autobahns), so the car dint have significant disadvantages. Along the...
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    part 103 electric motor battery allowance?

    You can't fly it without a license, though.
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    Horrible News from AvWeb

    So, the fat lady sings.... Just to be clear; he's not dead, just retired. He did promise he'll post a guest blog on occasion, and there are still a few videos to be produced. I cannot imagine him quitting cold turkey, so I'm sure we'll still get to see a few more things from him. And by the...
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    Around Airport Transportation

    Yes, there definitely are cheaper and lighter ones. https://www.newegg.com/p/03Z-0085-00027?Item=9SIANZWEEX7024 Of all the micro-mobility devices, I think electric uke (unicycle) checks the most boxes for an amateur pilot with a home built plane. It is light (the one here is 23 lbs), fairly...
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    Roadable Builds

    I watched the whole thing. i don’t know how old is this video, and if anything happened since it was recorded, but it looks like he did some ground testing of his innovative propellers, and secured a delta wing for his prototype. I’m not an aeronautical engineers, so I have no clue whether what...
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    Non- Biased Engine Reviews -Aeromomentum

    It's a bit contradictory, to claim that he is a good sales guy, but meanwhile he has no sales material on his site (testimonials of satisfied users, test data, etc.). My guess is, there are just too many people in the market who simply want very much his offer to be true, because they love the...
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    Why battery-powered aircraft will never have significant range

    if it is manned, it isn’t a drone. Drone is an unmanned aircraft. Most of them look like small airplanes (for military reconnaissance, target practice, or delivery of weapons), although recent ones for civilian use tend to be quad copters (VTOL). The aircraft in the video is a multirotor.
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    FAA dropping detail from charts

    The thing about such an initiative is, much like the Wikipedia, and other crowdsourced services (like most of Google), as long as there is a group of people who verify the submissions, false (or incorrect) data is less likely to sneak in than on government’s official maps. I would always trust...
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    FAA dropping detail from charts

    I get that, but how likely is that those are the people influencing this FAA decision?
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    FAA dropping detail from charts

    I’m wondering if this wasn’t a result of some forceful complaining/lobbying of a few powerful people with private runways, who weren’t comfortable with having their runways marked on the public charts. Anyone can build a runway in their property and use it as they see fit, as long as local...
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    Reducing weight by using composites

    I’ll come back to the original question with my own specific variant: BD4. Its fuselage has a frame that’s bolted together (mostly L-profiles), and flat sheets of aluminium glued to the frame for skin. If we ignore for the moment a considerable difference in cost, what would be the weight...
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    Portable ADSB-Out...?

    This sounds wrong. There’s no reason why the device cannot show every signal that’s in the range. As for situational awareness, ADSB has been in existence long enough now that there is plenty of data to show how much safer flying becomes when pilots no longer have to rely on their own eyes...
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    Why isn't the push/pull twin more popular ? What you say.

    I hadn't seen this mentioned but I believe it may well be a significant factor why the C-337 and similar push-pull concepts aren't nearly as popular as C-182: engine noise. If you sit behind a single engine, you accept the noise you get from it, because that's the price to pay for a cheap...
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    As Satellites and Space Junk Proliferate, US to Revise Rules

    this is incorrect by a large margin. China certainly is the most populous nation (for now), but not nearly thet big. Current population is 1.4 billion. There are 8 billion people in the world. China represents about 17%. India is expected to become the most populous nation, surpassing China’s...
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    AirVenture 2022: Where have all the Ultralights gone?

    Obviously yes, when the rule breakers represent a large portion of the entire segment. When it is one odd case here and there (someone flying under a bridge, or jumping out of a plane), you can easily enforce action against them, but when such a huge portion violates, enforcement on them...
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    Logic and FAA engine rules ?

    That would be a rather pointless argument. Building an engine from scratch is no doubt a long and daunting process. Building a glass cockpit from scratch (fabricating LCD display, designing the microprocessor, designing the circuitry, building it, designing the circuit board, installing the...
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    Logic and FAA engine rules ?

    Repairing the plane and building a safe plane are two completely unrelated things. The 51% E-AB rule came to be because it makes common logical sense that the engine is simply one component on an aircraft, much like landing gear, a wing, seats, or elevator. It’s simply common sense that the...
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    Homebuilts with yokes not sticks?

    Well, apparently, virtually ALL airliners (with the exception of Airbus) have yoke: Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, Comic, UAC (Tupolev, Ilyushin, Sukhoi, etc), plus smaller propeller planes (Beechcraft, Cessna, etc). Practically every jet plane that isn't a military fighter jet (or an Airbus made...
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