Given that the L-29 was highly praised for its smooth handling qualities and tame nature, we can confidently presume that the aircraft is statically stable. If it weren’t, it would likely have never completed its flight testing campaign, right? On…
The L-29 Delfín – Dolphin (NATO reporting name ‘Maya‘) was a military jet trainer designed in the late 1950s by the Czechoslovak company Aero. It was developed to compete with Soviet and Polish designs for the standard trainer of Warsaw…
When flying an actual aircraft, an important component of the feedback a pilot senses — apart from visual and vestibular cues — is haptic: the forces transmitted from the control surfaces back to the control stick (or yoke). For example,…
You know that feeling when you’re in the cockpit of your Spitfire, chasing a 109 in a fierce dogfight and you really want to glance at your airspeed indicator, but it’s buried down near your knees — and the moment…
Precise level bombing in a WWII era bomber equipped with a Norden bombsight can get tricky especially when you are forced to make some last minute corrections just moments before reaching the release points. For example due to wind gusts…
When I was reading about the endeavours of Gemini and Apollo programs, I got really excited and immediately wanted to scratch that itch by making something related. So I built a model rocket based on plans I found on a…