All through the week we post dozens of authentic tales, connecting the dots across the travel industry, and each weekend we sum it all up. This weekend roundup examines aviation. Cayley’s first innovation was to review the fundamental science of elevate by adopting the whirling arm check rig for use in plane research and using easy aerodynamic models on the arm, somewhat than making an attempt to fly a model of an entire design.

Digital fly-by-wire methods allow an aircraft to be designed with relaxed static stability Initially used to increase the manoeuvrability of army aircraft such as the Basic Dynamics F-sixteen Combating Falcon , that is now getting used to cut back drag on business airliners.

Powered by two M-2 powerplants, up-rated copies of the Gnome Monosoupape rotary radial engi...