AirVenture 2020 was canceled, which made Oshkosh’s Wittman Regional Airport a very quiet place in late July. If it was strange for you to stay home, it was equally strange to be nearly the only person there. No fireworks or explosions, no thrumming warbird formations or ear-splitting military flybys, only a field waiting for our return. This video shows where we gather. If you need to remember why we gather, I try to answer that here.
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Alternative Energies
As the powers that be debate the future of 100LL, participants at the Fifth Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium pondered how to make the alternatives more practical and efficient. By Dean Sigler.
It Got Very Quiet!
"OK, so the engine just quit!" I said, in as calm a voice as I could muster as I keyed the mic.
Buzzwords: Adverse Yaw
Adverse yaw is usually defined as an airplane yawing in the direction opposite the intended turn direction when insufficient coordinating rudder is applied. True enough, sort of. But there’s more to the story. By Edward P. Kolano.
