Constants and Trim Two Characters With the Right Approach In the previous issue, we considered the elements in a safe landing. Now let’s look a little more closely at the control of the aircraft. An aircraft designer goes to great pains to make his aircraft stable. What is stable? There are several kinds of stability

Piaggio Avanti The quest to produce a turboprop with near-jet performance has certainly been a primary goal of several of the world’s leading corporate aircraft manufacturers this past decade. Unfortunately, few have come anywhere near achieving that goal and indeed some have been bankrupted in the process. Learfan was the first, followed by the rather

Lufthansa Set to Maintain Air Freight Leadership While most northern hemisphere international carriers were licking their wounds in 1986, West Germany’s Lufthansa was busy securing an even bigger share of the world air cargo market. Nineteen eighty-six was a benchmark year for the German flag carrier. Not only did it see an increase in transatlantic

When the board of Shorts decided during the early seventies to pursue development of a 30-passenger low-cost commuter airliner, little did they realise that they would be setting the scene for an aircraft that would sell over three hundred examples in a little over a decade of series production. Much of the success of the