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Article: THE LSA Glass Menagerie

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November 1, 2009
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START CHRISTMAS SHOPPING NOW: THERE ARE TONS OF Gl-ASS TO CHOOSE FROM!

Once upon a lime, intrepid pilots rapped with their oil-stained, gloved knuckles on balky steam gauges; needles quivered unstuck, and all was right across the skies. Then sonicbody got the bright idea that you could put aviation instrument data on those cool little computer-screen thingies, and the age of the glass cockpit was upon us quicker than you could say "bank loan."

The page-two part of this story may be how quickly LSA and experimentally built cockpits have taken the lead in die recent migration to (relatively) low-cost, super-whiz-bang electronic gizmos. The prime driver here is that FAA certification isn't ...

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