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Extreme Efficiency
Ebneter's E-1 sets
another record
Arnold Ebneter, 84, of Woodinville, Washington, appears
to have set another world aviation record for airplane fuel
efficiency in his incredible E-1 airplane.
Ebneter, EAA 450548, unofficially set the record on October 5 during a nonstop flight from Harvey Field in Snohomish to Spokane;
Pendleton, Oregon; and back to Snohomish, using 62 pounds
of fuel and achieving 55 mpg. That shattered the old mark of 67
pounds in the less than 1,100 pounds aircraft category.
The record will require verification by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) before becoming official. In
July 2010 he flew his E-1 nonstop from Paine Field, Everett,
Arnold Ebneter's E-1 airplane, which he few to an unofcial world
record for airplane efciency on October 5.
Washington, to Fredericksburg, Virginia—an 18-hour,
27-minute flight covering 2,327 miles—to set a new world
mark for the longest nonstop flight in an experimental aircraft weighing less than 1,100 pounds. He shattered that by
8 percent, far more than the 1 percent required by FAI rules.
FAA Approves Five Quicksilver Kits for
51-Percent Compliance
Quicksilver Aeronautics announced in early November that it
has received FAA letters of authorization for five of its kits—the
MX Sport, MX II Sport, MX Sprint, MX II Sprint, and the Sport 2S.
The FAA's National Kit Evaluation Team performed evaluations on September 11 and 12, resulting in the addition of
the models to its Revised Listing of Amateur-Built Aircraft
Kits. These five, plus Quicksilver's GT 400 single-place and
GT 500 tandem, give the company a total of seven kits on
the listing.
"The team has determined that all five kits may allow an amateur builder to meet the major portion
requirement," read an FAA statement regarding
the evaluations.
Will Escutia, president of Quicksilver Aeronautics,
remarked, "FAA's visit proved the company under new
leadership is maintaining the high standards for which
Quicksilver has been known since the early 1970s."
Escutia and Daniel Perez purchased Quicksilver Manufacturing earlier this year and continue to operate Quicksilver
Aeronautics LLC in Temecula, California.
Rotax Revises Four-Stroke Engine Manuals
Rotax-Owners.com has announced that the following manuals for Rotax's four-stroke engines have been revised:
• Operators Manual (OM) 912 Series, Edition 3
• Line Maintenance Manual (LMM) 912 Series, Edition 3
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NO. 4/ DECEMB ER 2012
• Installation Manual (IM) 912 Series, Edition 2
These manuals may also be downloaded for free from
the Manuals section of the Rotax-Owner.com website.
Photography by Jay Tolbert and James Lawrence