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Kitplanes Template ® CENE S SEPTEMBER 2012 EBUILDING M IBRANT HO A Homebuilt Lancair Evolution Lancair AHomebuilt Flight Its First Makes Well... Went It Hint: V ? G IN Arion’s Latest Lightning: Arion’s Latest P Will Delight Transitioning Pilots Will G rt A esign RI Greater Stability & Easier Handling Stability & Easier Greater H D R pp World pp MOJAVe’S MOJAVe’S A YOUR HOMEBUILT AIRCRAFT HOMEBUILT YOUR AUTHORITY AL C T YOU I G G I IN D R st O ELD GPS ROUNDU F ptions from the H Y O DESERT VISIONS: DESERT Some READ FIELD-TE that Paper to Prove How There’s Still a Place for Portables! a Place Still There’s HAND KITPLANES SEPTEMBER 2012 Arion Lightning Flight Review • Installing a Firewall • Solesbee Lancair Evo First Flight • Homebuilding in Mojave • Handheld GPS Units • Embedded Speech in Avionics BELVOIR PUBLICATIONS September 2012 | Volume 29, Number 9 Flight Reports 8 LIGHTNING STRIKES AGAIN: Arion Aircraft’s Lightning receives a round of improvements, big and small; by Marc Cook. Builder Spotlight 18 THE ULTIMATE UPGRADE: The Solesbees’ Lancair Evolution finally takes its first flight; by Dave Prizio. 23 HOMEBUILDING ON THE EDGE: The old joke says Mojave, California, is not the middle of nowhere, but you can see it from there. Oh, so not true; by Marc Cook. 31 FIREWall FORWARD: INSTallING THE FIREWall: Do 18 it right. After all, it’s the only thing between you and an engine fire; by Dave Prizio. 40 All ABOUT AVIONICS: As tablet and handheld technologies converge, there’s still a place for the aviation-specific portable GPS; by Stein Bruch. 51 BUILD IT BETTER: Testing, testing, one, two, three; by Paul Dye. 65 COMPLETIONS: Builders share their successes. 66 MaINTENANCE MaTTERS: Got threads? By Steve Ells. 75 ASK THE DAR: ELT repairs and Sport Pilot rules; by Mel Asberry. Shop Talk 78 AERO ’LECTRICS: One ringy dingy…hello, Ernestine! By Jim Weir. Designer’s Notebook 76 WIND TuNNEL: Vortex generators and STOL performance; by Barnaby Wainfan. Exploring 2 EDITOR’S LOG: Hope floats; by Mary Bernard. 5 WHAT’S NEW: Zenith offers a Quick Build Kit for the CH 650, Kuntzleman adds wingtip LED system, and Radial Rocket streamlines its kits; edited by Suzanne B. Bopp. 6 VIEWFINDER: Gaming the system, gleefully; by Marc Cook. 45 FREE FLIGHT: Light and capable; by Paul Dye. 8 48 DOWN TO EaRTH: Finding the right digital charting solution for your cockpit; by Amy Laboda. 56 ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES: The sixth annual Electric Aircraft Symposium; by Dean Sigler. 62 THE COMING REVOluTION: Embedded speech in avionics will unburden the solo pilot by providing a virtual copilot; by James P. Hauser. Kit Bits 4 LETTERS 69 LIST OF ADVERTISERS 70 BuILDERS’ MaRKETPlaCE 80 KIT STufF: Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha. On the cover: The Arion Lightning was photographed by Richard VanderMeulen in 23 Lakeland, Florida. KITPLANES September 2012 1 EDITOR’S LOG Hope floats. I don’t know if you’ll feel this way, but out there in the desert, including Gene own money into the Falcon Nine/Dragon I found a lot to be hopeful about in this Sheehan’s electric Quickie project, which project. Why? He believes mankind must issue. Maybe part of it is that as I am writ- you can also read about in Dean Sigler’s become a multi-planet species to survive, ing this, it’s graduation season, and my column, Alternative Energies; Sheehan and the only way to know which planets town is awash in the celebration that made an appearance at the sixth annual are habitable is to explore them. comes with young people being on the Electric Aircraft Symposium in April. Just as many homebuilders construct threshold of something new, something There was another item in the news parts themselves, Musk’s Los Angeles different. But I think it’s more than that. that prompted my good cheer, which factory, a former Boeing 747 plant, builds It’s people like Nick Otterback, whose was the successful launch into space most of its own parts in order to be effi- Arion Lightning graces the cover of this and recovery of the Dragon capsule by cient and keep costs down. Some 1400 issue. Here is someone who is passion- SpaceX, which circles back around to employees construct engines, rockets ately pursuing perfection, or getting as Burt Rutan and all that he has been able and the space capsules. Metal goes in, close to it as he can. Several years ago, to accomplish. Like Rutan, Elon Musk is a and a spaceship comes out, with final when we last featured the Lightning, bit of an outlier in the aerospace world, assembly occurring at the launch point, Otterback had listened to sage test pilot yet he appeared on the scene and in in this case, Cape Canaveral. Chuck Berthe’s suggestions about how relatively short order, and despite great How did he learn how to do this? He the airplane could be improved, and he obstacles and potentially fatal financial read books, talked to smart people and incorporated some changes. Berthe’s shortfalls, managed to achieve some- assembled a Cracker Jack team. However, words may still be reverberating, as thing fairly spectacular. Few would he’s not about to turn his back on the U.S. Otterback continues to refine the Light- have expected him to succeed. Musk’s space agency, NASA. In fact, SpaceX will ning. That approach to manufacturing is background is in the Internet realm (he be vying for the NASA contract to build more rare than you might think. cofounded PayPal) and in the automo- the next U.S. manned spacecraft, a feat Then there are the stories (Viewfinder, tive world with the Tesla electric motor- Musk believes he can achieve. In that Page 4, and “Homebuilding on the Edge,“ car company. He is not an aerospace sense, Dragon was a proof of concept Page 23) about an enclave in the Califor- engineer by training. Until SpaceX, only design. Although Musk said he “wishes nia desert adjacent to an outfit you might three nations and one agency had flown it wasn’t so hard,” he also said that short have heard of called Scaled Composites. a capsule to the Space Station. SpaceX’s of “being dead or completely incapaci- Elliot Seguin of Scaled invited us out for a Dragon capsule is the first from a private tated,” he won’t give up on his dream. visit about a year ago, and it finally hap- company to complete the round trip. He also confessed to being disappointed pened (such is the nature of magazine Musk’s plans go further than wanting to that some of his greatest heroes, astro- publishing; good things take time). Edi- just ship supplies into space; he wants to nauts Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan, tor-at-Large Marc Cook visited the facility fly people there. both testified before Congress that they and the local airport in Mojave a couple According to an appearance on 60 Min- were bothered by his lack of experience of months ago. Not only did he get a per- utes, Musk’s first tack toward encourag- and the perils of privately funded com- sonal tour of the factory founded by Burt ing enthusiasm about space travel was mercial space flight. Couch that in aircraft Rutan, but he also got an up-close and his attempt to buy a refurbished ICBM terms, and I’d bet many homebuilders personal look at SpaceShipTwo, though missile that he would send to Mars so have met with a similar sentiment. But that experience couldn’t be documented that it could beam back photos. That pro- most don’t give up, and because of them, with photographs. There are both ordi- ject didn’t fly, but it prefaced what came and people like Otterback and Musk and nary and extraordinary things going on next: Musk invested $100 million of his the Mojave group, I’m optimistic. J The product of two parents with Lockheed Aerospace careers, Mary grew up with aviation, prompting her to pursue pilot training as an adult. Her father, a talented tool-and-die maker and planner, instilled in her an abiding interest in how things are built. For more than a decade, Mary Bernard she has been a contributing writer and Managing Editor for KITPLANES®. 2 KITPLANES September 2012 www.kitplanes.com & www.facebook.com/kitplanes EDITORIAL Editor-in-Chief Mary Bernard [email protected] Push Me, Pull You most part, he is spot on. However, I must Associate Editor Suzanne B. Bopp take him to task on a couple of points. Editor at Large Marc Cook I read Marc Cook’s article on the Zenith Senior Editor Paul Dye CH 650 B [June 2012] with great inter- Although in theory an optimum Art Direction Dan Maher shrouded prop can produce 28% more Contributing Editors Chuck Berthe, Roy Beisswenger, est, but one part that was of particular Stein Bruch, Steve Ells, Ed interest to me was about the “pushrod- static thrust than an optimum free Kolano, Amy Laboda, Rick activated elevator.” I called Zenith prop, we do significantly better in the Lindstrom Dave Martin, Paul Nafziger, Dave Prizio, Dick about that, and Caleb Gebhardt told real world. Most free props have a static Starks, Barnaby Wainfan, Jim me that Zenith has never used anything thrust efficiency (Figure of Merit) of 50% Weir to 55%. Our shrouded props typically Webmaster Omar Filipovic but pull-pull on the elevators for their Cartoonist Robrucha designs. He questioned your sources, have Figure of Merits above 80%.
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