CONTENTS
Vol.3 No.1 I January 2014
EAA PUBLICATIONS
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
Senior Graphic Designer: Chris Livieri
News Editor: Ric Reynolds
Copy Editor: Colleen Walsh
Multimedia Journalist: Brady Lane
Visual Properties Administrator:
Jason Toney
Contributing Writers: Charlie Becker,
Budd Davisson, Cy Galley, Dan Grunloh,
Tim Kern, Ed Kolano, Matthew Long
European Correspondent: Marino Boric
Features
10 Landings…
There's short, very short, then
there's ridiculously short
Display
Sue Anderson
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 3086, Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086
Phone: 920-426-4800
Fax: 920-426-4828
E-mail: experimenter@eaa.org
Website: www.EAA.org
One couple's low-cost, highperformance dream prowls the sky
BY BUDD DAVISSON
BY TIM KERN
Departments
02 Tower Frequency
08 Flightline
BY JACK PELTON
INDUSTRY NEWS
04 Homebuilder's Corner
ADVERTISING
18 The Sport Panther
24 Hints for Homebuilders
BY CHARLIE BECKER
BY CY GALLEY
06 News from HQ
NEWS FROM EAA
Columns
26 What Our Members Are Building
Fifty Years of FRED Flying Fun
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BY MATTHEW LONG
30 Light Plane World
EAA's Hall of Fame Ceremonies…
BY DAN GRUNLOH
34 Under the Cowl
A 120-hp Turbo Kit for the Rotax 912
BY MARINO BORIC
38 Flight Testing Techniques
Stall-Proof Airplane?
BY ED KOLANO
EAA Experimenter
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