Designer's Notebook

As we saw last month, the designer has two fundamental choices of wing structural architecture: cantilever or externally braced. In a cantilever layout all...

Barnaby Wainfan examines a sneaky and sometimes little understood cause of in-flight scares and engine failures: carb ice.

Prop blade Mach.

Z-Brackets and the free-body diagram.

Design process: wing size and takeoffs.

In the last few months, we have explored how planform and taper affect both the distribution of total lift across the span and the...

This month columnist Barnaby Wainfan takes a look at how the airplane responds in roll when the pilot is maneuvering. Two key factors are roll acceleration and the steady-state roll rate.

For the last few months, we have been looking at how the planform affects both the distribution of lift and the distribution of lift...

Bending.

Design process, part 6-obstacles.