Structural Testing Of Homebuilt Aircraft
STRUCTURAL TESTING
OF HOMEBUILTS
Editor's Note: Alex Strojnik's Aviation articles on laminar flow in in all cases of new designs. He
writings and aircraft designs have lightplane design, Alex designed also believes load testing may be in
appeared in Sport Aviation many and built a very low drag powered order in a number of instances
times in the past decade. A native sailplane, the S-2 (Sport Aviation, involving composite airframes.
of Yugoslavia, Alex has very April 1982), which would become While there has been no history of
impressive academic credentials. the first homebuilt motorglider in structural failure in composite
He holds a degree in electrical engi- which International FAI Silver, Gold homebuilts that have been con-
neering, a Ph. D. in aerodynamics .
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