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The RV–12 is easy to underestimate. It’s so tiny, so disproportionate, so cartoonish, that it appears to have sprung to life not from engineering blueprints, but from the fanciful pages of a Dr. Seuss book. A toy like this could be made by Fisher-Price. Photography by Chris RoseZoomed image Photography by Chris Rose After teaching in the RV–12, however—as well as ferrying two of them across the continent and performing the initial test flights on an experimental/amateur-built model—my initial doubts about it have been replaced by respect and admiration. The RV–12 is simply a tremendous tool for making pedestrians into pilots. With recent changes in FAA regulations, it also provides an economical path for pilots to earn private, commercial, instrument, and flight instructor ratings as well as learn glass-panel skills. The RV–12 began as an experimental/amateur-built kit and got ASTM approval for factory production as special light sport aircraft (SLSA) in 2009. More recently, those SLSA models have been appr
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