Nick Pfannenstiel of Timber Tiger fame—the company that brought you the spitting-image Ryan homebuilt—walks us through the details of Kay’s Speedster, a Verner-powered, side-by-side homebuilt with awesome styling and promising performance. At AirVenture, Nick answered hundreds of questions, including when the kits will be ready. But first, they need to finish Phase I flight testing back home in Colorado.
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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.
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