Structural Testing Of Homebuilt Aircraft
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and a faculty position at Arizona designed and built the S-4 Laminar while designers of composite air-
State as a physicist! Though it Magic (Sport Aviation, January craft normally make allowances for
never became his profession, Alex 1990), a tiny 30 h. p. machine that builder variances, still there may be
has continued to carry a torch for held the world's Class C-1.A/O 3 those who have a nagging uneasi-
aviation throughout his life. While kilometer speed record for a time. ness about the integrity of the
still a young engineer and glider Alex is also the author of several structures they have built. To those
instructor in Yugoslavia, he books on the design of aircraft with people, Alex says that load testing
designed and built an all-wood, tail- laminar flow characteristics (see their airframes is so straightfor-
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