Gross Weight Knot Rudder 
Plane and Pilot
MARCH 25, 2025
Although I havent spent much time around GB1s (except for drooling over them while they are on display and flying at airshows) I am always taken aback by how much larger the airplane appears to be in personparticularly, the tall, sweeping rudder that curves down to a sharp point with just enough ground clearance. Max Gross Weight: 2,200 lbs.
Flying Magazine
JULY 22, 2025
Epic has just released the most recent iteration of the airplane, the E1000 AX, with a major avionics upgrade including Garmin’s G1000 NXi suite and upped the useful load to an advertised (on its website) 2,860 pounds—gross weight 8,000, max ramp weight 8,035. The solution is to put something in the baggage compartment.
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Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
In order to be flown by a sport pilot, the resulting airplane must still meet the current regulations—1,320 pounds maximum gross weight, 120 knots max cruise speed, for example—but how it gets there is up to the builder. The rudder hardly calls attention to itself outside of having plenty of authority. A nuance, perhaps.
Plane and Pilot
JUNE 26, 2025
Featuring a Jabiru 3300 120 hp, 6-cylinder, air-cooled engine, the aircraft was built to accommodate a 1,675 pound gross weight. When MOSAIC comes into effect, you can bring it to a service center, and we will write a new certificate of airworthiness and weight and balance. But the J-230D still packs an impressive punch.
Plane and Pilot
MARCH 7, 2025
The fuselage is 9 feet tall, just about even with the top of the twin rudders. This whole assemblage of shapes, surfaces, and protuberances cruises at a little less than 100 knots. This more modest design featured a 6-cylinder, 285 hp Continentalactually a Rolls-Royce-licensed version of the IO-520.
AV Web
JULY 1, 2025
Before anything else, these are single-engine, unpressurized two-seat lightweights with a max gross weight of 1320 pounds. Check that against the max gross of a Piper Malibu at roughly 4300 pounds, or a Beech A36 Bonanza at around 3650 pounds or a Cessna 150 at 1600 pounds gross. GPH on 92 knots. Same for gliders.
Flying Magazine
JULY 11, 2025
During preflight, I used the EFB to add fuel and reserves, keeping the weight below the need for water injection, called a “wet takeoff,” which is standard operating procedure when the DC-6 is over 89,000 lbs gross weight. I crossed over the fence on 4L at 120 knots, just a bit fast, bringing the throttles to idle.
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