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    Van's announces highwing RV-15

    So far, I'm reminded of Jerry Pournelle's expression - frequently repeated - in Byte Magazine: "RSN". Real Soon Now was the way he marked what he saw as "vapourware".
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    Yeat Another Twin Boom Pusher the General Aircraft G.A.L. 33 Cagnet

    Actually it's both. The design of the prop attachment can lead to less intensive maintenance procedures.
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    Cessna tests new “Skycourier” and it’s actually not too terrible

    It's not just aircraft. When I was working as a field tech in the computer industry, I swore that if I ~ever~ got to be king-of-the-world, my first decree would be that no engineer would be allowed to design anything for production until they had served two years in residency as a repair tech.
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    is it being used?

    As of today, there are at least 16 flying aircraft which are powered by a Mazda rotary engine. Half of them are various models of Van's RVs, all powered by 13B engines, one is turbo-charged. There are two Velocity aircraft powered by 20Bs. Two COZY MkIV, both 13B series with turbo-charging. A...
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    Inaccurate fuel gauges with oxygenated fuel

    Fuel gauges Umm, a quick check of the fuel level systems offered by Spruce and Wicks yielded only one with a guage resolution other than 1/4 tank - it had two dots between 1/2 and either full or empty. using the standard convention that a scale's accuracy is 1/2 the size of a division...
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    Inaccurate fuel gauges with oxygenated fuel

    This does seem to beg the question: how many homebuilders have fuel level gauges with sufficiently fine resolution that a 3-10% difference is significant? Well, okay, their worst-case projection - 10% - is nearly 1/8 of a tank. My current gauge, for my test-stand tank, has a mark for the...
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    Rotary weights

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