Tag: humor

Point designs are the answers to a particular, well-defined problem. They don‘t necessarily answer any other problem.

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.

Keep it in the groove.

Departure Stall! Good aircraft design and a bit of luck made it survivable. By Gary Knight and James Wiebe.