Tag: robert hamilton

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.

Jim Weir continues his explanation of how to make any cell phone power up a remote electrical device.

Dynon SkyView Touch versus Garmin G3X touch. Two capable and powerful systems set a new standard for Experimental and LSA avionics.

This month well go through the step-by-step vacuum-bagging process for an aileron trimtab part to see how to deal with extreme contours.