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August 2014

8 Safety Corner: Insuring Yourself in a Borrowed Plane
By Mike Kerwin

10 Avionics: An Insider’s Advice on Shopping the Shows
By Bob Hart

20   10 Tips and Takeaways from a First Timer’s Flight to Oshkosh
By Matt Hofeldt

28 Everything You Need To Know About Aircraft Electrical in 1,000 Words
By Jim Cavanagh

36 Veterans Airlift Command: Connecting Planes, Pilots and Combat Wounded
By Sally Marks

42 Cessna and Piper Spring Beach Paradise
By Rick Gardner

52 Power Surge: The Past, Present, and Future of Concorde Battery and the Aviation Battery Industry
By Max Lundin

58 Featured Plane: Cessna’s T-206 Stationair, The 16-knot SUV
By Bill Cox

66 Under the Cowling: Sticky Valve Salvation, How to Diagnose and Treat a Suspect Valve
By Jacqueline Shipe

74 What to Know: 3 Useful Modifications to the Cessna 206
By Tom Ferguson