Technicalities

Things can get messy if you don’t have a plan for airsickness.

Timber holds a special place as the primordial material in airplane construction.

I logged in to OpenAI.com and asked to speak to ChatGPT. It presented me with a box where I could insert a question. I began with the most basic of all aeronautical questions: How does a wing produce lift?

A look at the navigation systems that preceded today’s technology.

Peter Garrison explains how jets produce thrust and recips produce torque.

Your wish is a VTOL’s command, perhaps.

We look through the glass and what do we see?

Finding an alternative term for this imprecise aerodynamic one.

Back in the day, when FAA employees outnumbered amateur airplane builders, a government inspector would do a “pre-closure” inspection on every part of your homebuilt, then return for a pre-first-flight inspection and again every year thereafter. The quality of these inspectors varied. Some were skilled A&Ps who almost always found a discrepancy that you had […]

For the past three years in the aviation press, occasional spy photos have appeared, showing an unusual blimplike airplane parked at the former George Air Force Base, now Southern California Logistics Airport, near Victorville, California. This oddity has now made its formal debut. Its name is Celera 500L, and it is a product of Otto […]