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Barnaby Wainfan

Barnaby Wainfan
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Barnaby is a Technical Fellow for Northrop Grumman’s Advanced Design organization. A private pilot with single-engine and glider ratings, Barnaby has been involved in the design of unconventional airplanes including canards, joined wings, flying wings and some too strange to fall into any known category.

Wind Tunnel

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Stiffness.

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Beefing it up.

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Getting it wrong.

All-moving Tails

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All-moving tails.

Wind Tunnel

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Horizontal tail design.

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Spring systems.

How Skin Condition Affects Aircraft Performance

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In the last few editions of Wind Tunnel, we looked at how changes to the surface of an airplane's skin can affect the aerodynamic...

Wind Tunnel

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Ice!

Wind Tunnel

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Simple aerodynamic improvements with tape.

Wind Tunnel

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VTOL flight modes.

In Case You Missed It

Nitrile Gloves

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If you're like me, you work on lots of things other than airplanes,...

Letters

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Dont Look!Dick Starks Dawn Patrol article, Were going to have to count that as...

Kit Stuff

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My 36 year old clipboard from when I started at Boeing. Engineering ruler and fastener/fastener hole cheat sheets. [Credit: Andrew Robinson]

What Is a Liaison Engineer?

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This column is geared more toward the younger crowd looking to enter aviation, so...