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I thought this would be a nice thing to share, a couple of pics and comments from a local French aircraft homebuilders group on WhatsApp.

Consider this encouragement for anyone dreaming of building an older wood and fabric aircraft...a 40-year-old example of an almost 80-year-old design still going strong. The outdoor pic is from a fly-in about 200 km away and 10 years ...

I'm aware that this is not a regular question for this forum, but I want to give it a try.

I'm doing some performance calculations for a small jet-powered aircraft, and there's one question I can find hardly any information on. And that's the effect of ambient temperature effect on turbojet thrust. After going through all my old study books and standard references, I fo...

I was drifting one of the facetmobile discussions with my sailplane delusions and decided to continue the dialogue here.

1: Span loading or wingspan length divided by total weight is a good predictor of glide angle.

2: Wing loading or wing projected area divided by total weight is a good predictor of stall speed.

Most competition sailplanes are desig...

Looks like over temp/overspeed? on this turbo. 300 hp 3 rotor 20B.

https://avbrief.com/on-the-record-lancair-es-florida/
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Who makes this spinner?
Thanks Brad
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