KITPLANES February 2025
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- Buyer’s guide season continues with our annual roundup of engines for Experimental aircraft. Over 25 pages, regular KITPLANES engine guru Tom Wilson looks at the latest offerings for kit- and plansbuilt aircraft, from both conventional—or, as we say, “legacy”—engine suppliers as well as those engines coming from the people making auto-engine conversions. Nowhere will you find as much depth in the engine discussion allied to updated prices and availability.
- One interesting program is the Continental diesel engine mounted to a Van’s RV-9 by Dennis Parker and partners. He describes the considerations of changing out the four-cylinder gas engine with the turbocharged, FADEC-controlled Continental CD-155 engine. It’s not the work of a moment but he feels it’s worth the effort.
- Editor-at-Large Paul Dye dissects the mindset that places angle-of-attack (AoA) instrumentation into the realm of nice-to-have where it should be considered an essential piece of your flying hardware.
- Longtime contributor Vic Syracuse has decided to build again and this one makes him more than just your average “repeat offender.” He’s going to build another Van’s RV-10. In this feature, he explains why he’s doing it again and what he’s learned since the last time he pounded rivets on his still-flying RV-10.
- Jon Humberd gets serious about his one-of-a-kind panel for his Zenith CH 750 build. Its simple approach to housing a Garmin G3X Touch EFIS will surprise you.
