Experimenter is a magazine created by EAA for people who build airplanes. We will report on amateur-built aircraft as well as ultralights and other light aircraft.
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Light Plane World long cross-country flights. They continued up the coast and met with Barry Maggio, who attracted attention when he first flew a trike in the Hudson River Special VFR corridor to see the Statue of Liberty. Read the story "Barry Maggio's Rendezvous with Lady Liberty." Craig and Barry repeated the feat again as shown in this video. Craig's odyssey continued up to Maine and back westward across the United States, including a flyover above Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse. Craig has a background in mountaineering and bicy- cling in many continents. His first feat after getting into trike flying was to land in all 246 airports in California. The trike used in this trip was a 100-hp Rotax 912–pow- ered P&M; Aviation Quik, which is capable of a 90- to 100-mph cruise speed. He bought the trike in Georgia and flew it to California, a 2,000-mile trip that helped spur the idea of flying in all 48 states. While many of us are content to fly for an hour or less, Craig likes to fly for hours on end, and with his cruising speed, he can cover a lot of ground. Couple Embarks on 100,000-Mile World Flight Adventure In a time when around-the-world flights are becoming more commonplace, Andreas Zmuda and Doreen Kroe- ber have embarked on an incredible and ambitious jour- ney. On July 21, 2012, they departed from Zephyrhills, Florida, with plans to fly 100,000 miles over a 32-month period, crossing 74 countries and five continents and ending in Sydney, Australia, in April 2015. A native of Germany, Andreas has worked as a tour guide for ad- venture trips in South and Central America for the last 20 years. The couple met during a tour of the Amazon when he was a guide. His first trike was a flying inflat- able boat that he used to fly tourists around the Mayan ruins of Belize. For the around-the-world flight, their light-sport aircraft is a DTA Voyager weight-shift control trike built in France and known for its ruggedness. Unfortunately a hard landing in very rough conditions at the Kentland Airport in Indiana grounded them for six weeks. At first he thought there was no damage, but it didn't seem to handle right. A close inspection by an experienced trike mechanic at Cushing Field in Newark, Illinois, revealed the frame of the DTA trike was slightly twisted. The DTA Voyager is an S-LSA trike built in France, and only the factory can deter- mine how the problem should be fixed. A new frame would have to be shipped from France, and the fac- tory was temporarily out of stock. It would take three weeks to manufacture plus the shipping time from France to Chicago. The six-week delay required a new plan and allowed time for some sightseeing. See their Craig Valentine's 100-hp P&M; Quik trike is built in the United Kingdom, carries 17.2 gallons of fuel, and is capable of 100-mph cruise. 48 NO. 3/NOVEMBER 2012