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New growth in VTOL design

Wednesday, April 24th, 2013

Combining a hovering capability of a helicopter with a high-speed, long-range flight capabilities of a fixed-wing aircraft has intrigued engineers for decades. The Australian association StopRotor Technology has a new approach: their Hybrid RotorWing pattern judgment has a categorical rotor that switches from bound rotor to bound wing in midst air. According to Gizmag’s Jan Bellezina, “The Hybrid […]

On a skids? How to repair inauspicious yaw

Wednesday, April 24th, 2013

Adverse bend is an fundamental conflicting bend or movement that occurs with aileron deflections. A certain angle of conflict is generally compulsory to furnish a wing lift indispensable to keep an aeroplane in a air. When a ailerons are deflected during a certain angle of attack, a down aileron presents a wider frontal cranky section, […]

Easy Access Aileron Servo Installation with Wing Hatches

Wednesday, April 24th, 2013

Here’s a common, really renouned approach to implement aileron servos. To make margin upkeep easy, implement your servos with hatches built into a wing so they are flush with a wing’s underside and are hold in place with screws. The initial thing we do to get a aileron servo induce scrupulously aligned is to implement a […]

Riot Planes “Sea Monkey”– Wet & Wild Seaplane Fun

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

I live within a integrate notation travel from a really good tiny lake, or we competence cruise it a large pond. With this during palm ease evenings mostly brought a enterprise for a delayed fly electric sea plane. While during a 2013 WRAM Show we found only what we was looking for during a Zippkits […]

Workshop Build-Along: 6-foot Taylorcraft from Alien Aircraft

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

We continue with a from a seminar aeroplane build-along of a new laser-cut Taylorcraft pack from Alien Aircraft. Designed by Tom Herr, this heat powered competition scale classical has a 72 in. wingspan and easy to build lock-tab construction. Our contributor Mike Greenshields says: ” This aeroplane is built like a tank, nonetheless it is light […]