Flying

Aircraft Building Program Taking Off in New Hampshire High Schools

Tango Flight is a nonprofit organization that engages high school students across the U.S. in building airworthy Van's RV-12 kitplanes, utilizing STEM concepts to inspire future engineers, pilots, and ...
Flying

Aircraft Building Has Come Out of the Woods

American aviator Howard Hughes (in hat) atop his flying boat the Spruce Goose (a Hughes H-4 Hercules), directing operations for the launch at Long Beach, California, on November 6, 1947. Here the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How to Build an Airplane in Seven Days

Aircraft manufacturing doesn’t have to be a commercial activity. Mark Strauss The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center has a new airplane: a Sonex Waiex-B that was built in one week at the Experimental ...
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Building vs. Fixing

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The best builders learn to combine both mindsets. They build like engineers but think like future mechanics. [Credit: Bill Wilson] ...
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The hardest part of building a US Navy aircraft carrier isn’t the nuclear reactor or hull. It’s the one system that keeps failing

Summary and Key Points: A nuclear-powered supercarrier is one of the most complex machines humanity has ever built — yet the part that gave the U.S. Navy the most grief on the USS Gerald R. Ford ...
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Building vs. fixing

Somewhere during every aircraft project, a builder faces a quiet moment of truth. It might happen while drilling a hole in a structural member, setting a rivet in a hard-to-reach corner, or tightening ...