160 pictures of Airventure for your viewing pleasure: In pictures: Oshkosh EAA Airventure 2014
The story >> Kathryn's Report: 06/21/14 The owner had just done his first test flight two weeks ago >>...
Some helpful conversion factors for the amateur designers: :silly: 1 . Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi 2....
I wonder if you guys who have done truss design can tell me if I’m on the right track with my analysis. For my hypothetical airplane (the picture...
Remarkably well preserved. Granted the desert is a rather large area, but I'm surprised it went undiscovered for so long. I wonder what else is...
I'm planning to start building the Vampyr flying wing soon, and due to limited space (it's a garage project for now) I'd like to make the 24' wing...
For those who like the Spitfire: Flightline UK - Duxford Battle of Britain Airshow - Review It's a short video, but some great shots of the...
I've searched the threads, learned a bit, but still have a question: I'd like to use a wing planform with approximately five degrees of sweep,...
What does one do to overcome the problem of the variation in calculated/published airfoil data when designing a new project or analyzing an...
I wonder if someone could help with Figure A7 - Chordwise load distribution, specifically the definition of d’: “ratio of distance of center of...
I'm at the point where I need to select an airfoil for my design, and I've narrowed the choices down to about half a dozen, but now I'm stuck....
Looking at the Loehle 5151 wood frame/cloth covered plane, I've seen several people cover the wings and fuselage with 1/16" (or slightly thicker)...
Hello all, I've been doing a bit of reading about torsional vibration and one common theme is interesting - it appears that the aviation...
Hello all, Is anyone familiar with the three volume set by Alex Strojnik on low power aircraft design? I've never seen this author mentioned...
Hello all, I was looking at some construction pictures of the Falco all wood airplane and I've got a question about the aft end of the...
Questions for you designers out there: if an airplane were to be designed with twin vertical stabilizers, is the area for each v.s. half the...
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