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Just Aircraft Superstol a Helio for the Light-Sport Set The Spirit of Homebuilt Aviation I www.eaa.org Vol.2 No.8 I August 2013 Just Aircraft SuperSTOL A Helio for the light-sport set When the Kit Doesn’t Arrive E-LSA—Make It Your Way The ULPower Six-Cylinder Engine More About Sawtooth Climbs Tower Frequency It’s Time to Celebrate By Jack Pelton It’s time for Oshkosh, the best week of the year. And, as instead of shrinking. People are so dedicated to preserving always, we have many reasons to celebrate our love of all fl ying history that restoration projects once thought to be things that fl y. impossible are now almost routine. During the rest of the year it’s easy for me, and I’m sure Even the standard category airplanes nearly all look their you, too, to become bogged down by the steady drumbeat best. No airplane owner wants to fl y to Oshkosh without of bad news and threats to personal aviation from all cor- fi rst washing and polishing his airplane and making it look ners. And at EAA we are always on guard to protect our as good as it possibly can. All pilots who fl y to Oshkosh freedom to fl y and to keep personal aviation accessible take immense pride in their airplane and their accomplish- to as many people as possible. But at Oshkosh, during ments as pilots no matter what they fl y. AirVenture, is the time to recognize just how successful we have been. In 1975 Tom Poberezny was named chairman of the Oshkosh fl y-in. Tom understood more than anyone that From the beginning EAA Founder Paul Poberezny recog- the prospects for growth in the event were enormous. He nized how important it is for us to get together, so the an- knew that people wanted to bring aircraft of every type to nual EAA fl y-in and convention is as old as the association join the party. And after he convinced British Airways to itself. Paul instinctively knew that people want to show off bring a Concorde to Oshkosh in 1985, we all knew every- the results of their hard work and imagination. thing was possible. Paul didn’t need to invent a new concept to get the EAA Under Tom’s leadership Oshkosh became the place to fl y-in started. It’s as natural as a county fair where people show the aviation world anything and everything that was gather at harvest time to see who produced the best new and noteworthy. The Voyager fl ew at Oshkosh before steer, grew the largest pumpkin, or raised and trained the circling the globe, but then nearly all Apollo astronauts fastest horse. made the trip here, too. Fleets of warbirds fl y in every summer, and so do gaggles of very light aircraft. And the It’s the same at Oshkosh. I hesitate to call them amateur- aviation industry plans its new product introductions to built because the workmanship in most homebuilts that fl y make a splash here where the largest number of aviation to Oshkosh is truly professional. I marvel at the craftsman- enthusiasts can see the new stuff fi rst. ship and attention to detail most builders achieve. I know a thing or two about how diffi cult it is to build airplanes both Yes, there are many issues that personal aviation must big and small and am blown away by the achievements of contend with. And, yes, we need some luck with the members who fl y their creations to Oshkosh. weather and this year we truly lucked out! It’s the same for the antiques and classics in the Vintage Oshkosh is the envy of all other aviation events. Nothing area. Many airplanes on display are simply better than matches its size and scope and ability to attract any- new because no factory assembly line could lavish the thing that flies. Oshkosh is aviation’s greatest party, and same level of attention aircraft restorers lovingly apply. I hope you enjoyed it to the fullest; I certainly did. If you And in the Warbirds area I’m constantly impressed that weren’t able to join us, you can relive the week online at the number of fl yable rare airplanes is actually growing www.AirVenture.org/live. On the cover: Just Aircraf ’s SuperSTOL displays its talents (Photography courtesy of Just Aircraf ) 2 Vol.2 No.8 /August 2013 Contents Vol.2 No.8 / August 2013 I A publication of the Experimental Aircraft Association Features » 15 Just Aircraft’s SuperSTOL » 20 Making Do When the Kit Doesn’t Arrive A Helio for the light-sport set The Holmlund Wheeler/Auriga By Dave Higdon By Budd Davisson Departments Columns » 2 Tower Frequency » 30 Under the Cowl By Jack Pelton An Engine in Search of an Airplane By Tim Kern » 4 Homebuilder’s Corner By Charlie Becker » 34 Light Plane World Have It Your Way With » 6 Letters an E-LSA…Mostly Letters and links from readers By Dan Grunloh » 8 News from HQ » 38 Flight Test Techniques News from EAA Sawtooth Climbs VY Determination By Ed Kolano » 10 Flightline Industry News » 41 Hangar Debrief Help! I Need Somebody » 28 Hints for Homebuilders By Rick Weiss A Tail Wheel Shimmy By Cy Galley EAA Experimenter 3 Homebuilder’s Corner Oshkosh… What a week! By Charlie Becker For me, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is the best week of the brilliant, accomplished, and just all-around good year. Christmas in July! I hope you were here with us. If not, people. The grounds are spotless because our I urge you to come next year, July 28 to August 3, 2014. This members all subscribe to the high standards that past one was my 20th Oshkosh, and I will not miss the next. Paul Poberezny set down when the organization was founded. And the entire event works because people Every year it recharges my aviation batteries. It inspires volunteer. They give freely of their time to park air- me to achieve more and dream bigger dreams. And if I’ve craft, judge aircraft, teach workshops, present forums, let my current build project gather dust, you can bet I get and on and on. fi red up about getting it restarted. Family Reunion Largest Gathering of Homebuilts And once you start coming regularly, you cannot help but This year, at least 867 homebuilts fl ew in. That alone makes form a new “Oshkosh family”—people you may only get the week awesome. I got to see everything from an RV-1 to a chance to see once a year but who enrich your life and a Piel Beryl and everything in between. On top of that, you with whom you become fast friends. get to see all the kit companies and their aircraft. I love to see the ones only partially constructed such as the RANS 2014 S-20 Raven or the Javron Super Cub knockoff. This lets me see how they are solving construction challenges. During EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014, we will have a couple of special things to shine the light on the Learning homebuilt movement. It will be the 50th anniversary of the Breezy design. No other design says EAA more One of the downsides of working for EAA during Oshkosh than the Breezy. Also, Zenith aircraft will be building is I’m only able to make the forum presentations that I an aircraft in a week. Chris Heintz pulled this off in present. So this year I made sure to organize a forum for 1976 in eight days, back when Oshkosh was nine days people building their own Super Cub–inspired aircraft (like long. (I think we only had a nine-day convention once.) me). If I’m a presenter, I have to be there, right? It also I’m hopeful that this will get a lot of people interested served as a meet-up of the online builders, so I had the in building. chance to meet some of the people I only interact with online. The forums and workshops provide a wealth of Of course, I always run the risk of getting aviation fever knowledge on every aspect of building and fl ying. and buying something crazy. I kept myself in check and limited my purchases to a nice, new pneumatic drill (4000 Faith rpm, sweet!). Oshkosh also restores my faith in humanity. You I encourage you to start planning your trip for 2014. You get to interact with and meet some absolutely don’t want to miss it! 4 Vol.2 No.8 /August 2013 Get hands-on. Get the skills you need from the experts you trust. For workshop dates, locations and costs, visit SportAir.org or call 1-800-967-5746. SportAir Workshops Copyright © 2013 EAA EAA SportAir Workshops are supported by Aircraft Spruce & SpecialtyJuly Company 2013 and EAA Poly-Fiber Experimenter Aircraft Coatings 2 E-Mail PUBLICATIONS STAFF Founder: Paul H. Poberezny Publisher: Jack J. Pelton, EAA Chairman of the Board Vice President of Marketing: Rick Larsen Editor-in-Chief: J. Mac McClellan Homebuilding Community Manager: Charlie Becker Editor: Mary Jones/EditEtc. LLC Graphic Designer: Chris Livieri News Editor: Ric Reynolds EAA’s Certifi cation Kit Is Great Copy Editor: Colleen Walsh Multimedia Journalist: Brady Lane Just got my RV-7 airworthiness certifi cate recently…in part due to EAA’s Visual Properties Administrator: certifi cation kit that I bought several years ago. I followed it to the letter and Jason Toney did not get one thing sent back from the local FAA offi ce.
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