FAA Reference Material
The FAA provides a variety of important reference material for the student, as well as the advanced civil aviation pilot. In addition to the regulations provided online by the FAA, several other publ…
Composite Construction Aircraft Structure
History of Composite Construction The use of composites in aircraft construction can be dated to World War II aircraft when soft fiberglass insulatio…
Types of Aircraft Construction
The construction of aircraft fuselages evolved from the early wood truss structural arrangements to monocoque shell structures to the current semimonocoque shell structures. Truss Structure The main …
Major Components of Aircraft
Although airplanes are designed for a variety of purposes, most of them have the same major components. [Figure 2-4] The overall characteristics are largely determined by the original design objectiv…
Aircraft Structure Lift and Basic Aerodynamics
In order to understand the operation of the major components and subcomponents of an aircraft, it is important to understand basic aerodynamic concep…
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