Tag: engines

Experimental aircraft are issued "special" airworthiness certificates, and those come with specific operating limitations.

A window into air racing.

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.

The tail of the airplane performs three functions: It stabilizes the aircraft in both...