Tag: super cub

Flight testing for longitudinal stability problems continues this month as columnist Barnaby Wainfan details tests for stick force as related to trim and stick-free stability of an aircraft. The object is to gather data and analyze it to see if the hypotheses about the nature of the problem hold up under scrutiny.

For this month’s cover story on the updated Van’s RV-14A, I not only got...

Dont buy a used Experimental aircraft without one (Part 1).

Nearly every aircraft utilizes metal cables to operate control surfaces like elevators, rudders and...