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A scratch-built Douglas World Cruiser, the powered hang glider that launched the ultralight movement and a replica of a 1912 monoplane by Georgia’s first aviator now share the EAA Aviation Museum floor with three warbirds.
The EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh has
FAA Order 8130.2M frees Phase I flight testing from assigned areas, sends new homebuilts to a different FAA office for certification and shows non-builder owners the paperwork they need to do their own condition inspections.
If you plan to finish a homebuilt this winter, the first call you make for an airworthiness inspection may go to a different FAA office t...
Angle of attack, not airspeed or nose attitude, decides when a wing stalls. Here is how the classroom explanation lines up with what you feel in the cockpit.
Just as you begin to think you have stalls all figured out from reading the explanations in the training manuals, you try to match up these concepts in flight, and nothing you have read seems to fit. Whil...
“I can’t answer that question until I see your operating limitations.”
“My what?”
I looked at Roger with a look of puzzlement. “Operating Limitations. They should be behind your airworthiness certific...
From a KITPLANES reader: Why do vortex generators creating turbulence help wings create lift at high angles of attack? Good question Shawn, and thanks for reading.
I’m going to preface my answer with stating that I’m more of a structures guy than aerodynamics, so if I don’t get some details quite correct, please make allowances...