You can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig! Call it Enicar if you like, but it is either an AS 1187 or it’s slightly larger brother, an AS 1194. The Swiss code initials MXL on the balance cock might identify the outfit who marketed it. That code doesn’t show in my reference material.
OK, thanks. I thought that's what you said but never heard of flaps that go up above the neutral point. I'm failing to visualize how any variation from neutral can reduce drag but a lot of things have been discovered by trial and error when it comes to drag, induced drag for one.
So what uses 13 in an hour?
or 13 in a circle?
My Cessna 182 didn't go too fast but it did have amazing modern glass panels in it (a Garmin G1000 cockpit).
Here is a display of what I'd see while flying. There is a lot of data on it.
I am currently at 12,500 feet altitude, going an Indicated Airspeed of 106 knots (which equates to True Airspeed of 131 knots).
I am 92.6 nautical miles away from my destination airport KCRE (this is Myrtle Beach Grand Strand Airport).
I have a 17 knot cross wind coming from my right.
The nose of the plane is aiming for a 198 degree course but, because of the cross wind, is on a 177 degree heading.
And, the outside air temperature (OAT) is 41 degrees Fahrenheit at this altitude.
Compared to the old style gauges, this new technology makes it a lot easier to navigate.
I took the German language course at school to try to learn more about this! An uncle, ex RAF navigator in WWII, said to me that all the fundamental research into aerodynamics had been done in Germany in the 1930/40s and never translated, so if I wanted to work in that area I needed to learn German.
I did learn German to school exam standard but ordering beer, chatting up Fräuleins and getting boxes of product brochures though Customs is most of I've used it for. Very handy as a tourist in Hungary though, all the older people spoke German, the youngsters had Russian.
Today I would say that outside the military-industrial outfits there's a lot of work being done by the glider designers in (mostly) western Europe.
How can you have a right cross wind and fly a 198 course with a heading of 177? Did you mean a left crosswind?
In those glass panels is the gyro purely electronic?
How can you have a right cross wind and fly a 198 course with a heading of 177? Did you mean a left crosswind?
In those glass panels is the gyro purely electronic?
The language part is very interesting. I understand the young learning Russian during the long occupation. May I presume they now prefer Hungarian?
I still remember my dad being very disappointed at the lack of help we gave them when I was 5 back in '56.
I do think that some aerodynamic research has occurred since the 40's.
