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Oil pressure is always a concern to anyone who flies a powered plane. Everyone...

Introduction to driven rivets. Learn how to judge the size of rivets you need and how to tell if you've driven them correctly.

When is an airplane in trim? At least to the pilot, the airplane is trimmed when no stick force is required to maintain equilibrium. So how do we achieve this? Barnaby Wainfan explains any number of ways to go about it, including the use of trimtabs, spring systems, sparrow strainers and variable incidence tails.

Acoustic FeedbackThe article Sounding Down in the June KITPLANES concerning aircraft soundproofing was interesting...