by Dan Johnson | Feb 21, 2024 | BRP-Powertrain (Rotax Aircraft Engines), Glider or Motorglider, Phoenix, Phoenix Air USA, Splog, Top-50 Videos
The Top 50 video series has gone over very well and continues with this post about the Phoenix LSA motorglider. If you thought it disappeared and were unhappy about that, have I got good news for you! I am aware of a very positive development regarding Phoenix that I...
by Dan Johnson | Feb 13, 2024 | Escapade, Highlander, Just Aircraft, Splog, STOL, SuperSTOL, Top-50 Videos
Here we go again… in a great way, I hope. Returning to our Top 50 Video series, we come to Just Aircraft and their jaw-dropping SuperSTOL. At airshows in recent years, lots of pilots spoke with excitement about STOL competitions. Just’s SuperSTOL was often part of the...
by Dan Johnson | Jan 12, 2024 | Back Yard Flyer, Part 103, Splog, Top-50 Videos, Valley Engineering LLC
Over many years, one of the most consistently requested aircraft is Back Yard Flyer. Even the name sounds affordable, doesn’t it? While you can’t get this one any longer, about 20 are flying and some pop up on aviation sale listings. In its day — before Valley...
by Dan Johnson | Oct 4, 2023 | Dingo, Future Vehicles s.r.o., Glider or Motorglider, Part 103, Song UL, Splog, Top-50 Videos
You know this airplane and you know this company, although a refresher might be in order. You can be excused if this one slips your mind. The airplane caught on-approach to landing was from years ago. Americans first saw it with an electric motor developed by Randall...
by Dan Johnson | Jun 30, 2023 | Air Command Int'l LLC, Arrow Copter, AutoGyro GmbH, Blades Over Me, ELA Gyroplanes USA, Gyro Technic, Magni Gyro S.r.l., Magni USA LLC, Niki Rotor Aviation, Rotorvox Aero (USA), SilverLight Aviation, Splog, Top-50 Videos
A dozen years ago, fixed wing pilots thought very little about “gyrocopters” — as some people called them. Actually that word is a model name established by Igor Bensen, widely thought of as the father of this activity along with Juan de la Cierva of Spain, known for...
by Dan Johnson | Jun 22, 2023 | BRP-Powertrain (Rotax Aircraft Engines), Porto Aviation Group (was SEO-Avio), Risen, Splog, Top-50 Videos
When this series started, Icon’s shapely A5 LSA seaplane topped the list. Handsome as it is and like most seaplanes, A5 is not particularly fast. The subject of this second in the series of 50 aircraft is Porto Aviation’s Risen. You might say it is on the other end of...
