The choice of welding method for your homebuilt aircraft’s steel tube fuselage represents one of the most critical decisions in your building journey. Each welding process offers distinct advantages ...

Lightweight, strong, and flexible, composite materials are the wave of the future.

DARPA has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale aircraft called the X-65. It will test a new technology that replaces moving control surfaces with Active Flow Control (AFC ...

"There are a large number of woods used in the construction of airplane propellers and the selection of one suitable to meet the conditions in hand is not always an easy problem," writes Frank W.

The reFrame project, which aims to optimize the recycling of carbon fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRPs) to be incorporated into aircraft construction has been approved. The interdiciplinary project was ...

Just how do you eat an elephant? Start with the first bite, that’s how. And that’s the aeronautical version of what local resident Allen Maris, 50, of Santa Ynez has bitten off with the construction ...