Tag: composites

Sometimes the bear gets you. Sometimes you get the bear. Today, I got the...

Installing small screws into the tight confines of a deep avionics tray is a challenge that can be both annoying and frustrating.

Columnist Barnaby Wainfan discusses the factors that affect the longitudinal stability of an aircraft during a variety of maneuvers. Designers make compromises to keep stick forces down so that a pilot can control an airplane, but sometimes they go too far, and light control forces can result in problems that are just as serious as those posed by forces that are too heavy. Whats a designer to do? The most important considerations are presented.

Way back in the previous century—closer to the middle of the century than the...