Tag: maintenance

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.

Part of your aircraft kit-building journey will require you to temporarily fasten various components...

Plane and simple.

Surviving the unplanned pitch trim loop. By Sid Mayeux.