Category: Aircraft Roll

Flights of Fancy Since before recorded history, humans have witnessed birds and bugs in flight and marveled at their innate ability to defy gravity. Over the long millennia, countless millions longed in vain to join these airborne creatures in being able to “slip the surly bonds of Earth,” as World War II pilot John Gillespie […]

Fly Me to the Moon If you were ever to overhear someone saying that Kyle Jorgenson has his head in the clouds, you shouldn’t jump to the conclusion that they mean it in a bad way. Perhaps it started when he was serving in the U.S. Army as a helicopter mechanic, but the founder of […]

When You Need to Build an Airplane Not long ago the owner of a fabrication company needed to make some intricate curves in metal that altered their geometry along the length of the workpiece. Realizing that it resembled the varying contours found in an aircraft wing, he learned that a machine known as an aircraft […]