Tag: avionics

ULPower takes a different approach to air-cooled, horizontally-opposed, direct-drive engines. By Steve Ells.

Just some of Reno’s more iconic hot rods.

Columnist Barnaby Wainfan discusses the factors that affect the longitudinal stability of an aircraft during a variety of maneuvers. Designers make compromises to keep stick forces down so that a pilot can control an airplane, but sometimes they go too far, and light control forces can result in problems that are just as serious as those posed by forces that are too heavy. Whats a designer to do? The most important considerations are presented.

Meet this gem of an airplane.