Tag: wood designs

Builders share their successes.

The insurance market has changed for orphaned designs.

Professor X and Kolchak would both be proud Part 1

When it came to choosing a kit aircraft to build, columnist Amy Laboda and her husband opted for a metal design, in part because it would be resistant to destruction by lightning strike and also because fatigue is easier to detect in metal than it is in a composite plane. However, new nanotube technology, if integrated into composite construction material, could not only help identify wear problems, but also potentially heal them.