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.
Issue link: http://experimenter.epubxp.com/i/101874
about 50 some kits in 1985 and discontinued them when Lloyd's of London cancelled his insurance. There are 30 of these flying. It's a fast (240-plus knots) aircraft with good flying qualities. We have an SX-300 type club group that holds two formal meetings per year. Our last get together was in early October in Fredricksberg, Texas. We also flew five of these aircraft to Alaska in 2007, 2009, and 2011 and are planning another trip to Alaska next June. I've also built a Pitts Model 12, whichI finished this plane in 2002. This is a kit from Jim Kimball Enterprises of Zellwood Florida. Curtiss Pitts designed this aircraft around the Russian nine-cylinder engine that is used in numerous trainer and aerobatic aircraft. Mine is the 14PF version, which produces 400-hp. It's basically a Pitts on steroids. It's a great machine, too, and fun to fly. I've flown it to EAA Oshkosh AirVenture twice. Keith's Pitts Model 12 and SX-300 in formation. Dave Prizio, Tustin, California Ed and I also built a Texas Sport Cub, which we finished in 2008. This is the kit version of the Legend Cub. This plane is light-sport eligible. It sports a 120-hp Jabiru engine and a Sensenich fixed-pitch prop. Cruise at 75 percent power is 85 knots, so long trips are something of a challenge. On the other hand it will land at 30 knots, so it doesn't need much of a runway. This was our first experience with fabric covering, but we got great results and had a lot of fun learning. I am based in southern California at Chino Airport (KCNO). I currently fly a Glasair Sportsman that my friend Ed Zaleski and I built in 2006. We finished it in early July and flew it to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh that year with the Phase I flight test just barely complete. The project went together very quickly, largely because we had built a GlaStar four years previously. The Sportsman has a Lycoming 180-hp engine with Power Flow exhaust and a Hartzell constant-speed prop to cruise at up to 139 knots. We have flown it to Alaska, Oshkosh, and the Idaho backcountry, plus many locations in California. At this time we are helping another friend build an RV-8, which he hopes to fly to AirVenture next year. Now if I can just figure out how to get my extra-large body into the backseat of an RV-8. Te Texas Sport Cub that Dave and Ed built. Dave fies this Glasair Sportsman that he build with Ed Zaleski. EAA Experimenter 29