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We Fly: Epic E1000 AX

Flying Magazine

Over the years we’ve flown a lot of aircraft with “aft-tending” centers of gravity—if you filled the seats, you were outside the aft CG limit, and the rear seats in six-place airplanes were unusable. Taxiing requires forays into Beta as there is so much thrust at idle that the Epic will rapidly accelerate beyond taxi speed.

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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Bell X-14

Vintage Aviation News

Air Force and NASA to explore using vectored thrust to transition from vertical and horizontal takeoffs to achieve level flight before making a vertical landing. It was also the first VTOL aircraft to use a jet thrust diverter system for vertical lift. He compared its glide rate to that of a Cessna 206.

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Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We We just fly the thing around at 1000 feet, so the ceiling, we don’t know. Nudging it back to center slid the ball a diameter the other way—trying to corral it in the middle was a bit pointless as it didn’t want to live there.