I was cleaning up a pile of paper in the office this weekend, and came across three copies of old Jim Bede magazine ads that I had forgotten about. It seems that Jim Bede ran a series of one page technical articles in one or more homebuilt aircraft magazines many years ago. I haven't conducted a technical review of the content, but it looks like there is quite a bit of useful or interesting design and flight test info in them.
I went on the web, and found a BD-5 web site that had links to many of the articles.
Read on for a list of articles with links on the web.
Update - 16 June 2009 - It looks like those articles disappeared from the web. I loaded copies on my server - read on for the links.
- #1:Kinematics of Castering Nosewheels
- #2:Strength Calculation of Aircraft Materials
- #3:Calculating Strength of Joints and Fittings
- #4:Aircraft Stalling Speeds
- #5:Flush Air Inlet
- #6:Drag and Power
- #7:Streamlining Struts
- #8:Effects of Parasite Drag
- #9:Drag Reduction of Control Surface
- #10:Weight Breakdown of Aircraft Components
- #11:Weight Listing of Aircraft Components - C150 vs. BD-4
- #12:Stall Patterns
- #13:Stability Contribution of Propellers
- #14:Aeronautical Equations
- #15:Mean Aerodynamic Chord
- #16:Tail Volume
- #17:Mean Aerodynamic Chord on Biplanes
- #18:Slipstream Velocities
- #19:Drag Coefficient Along the Span of a Wing
- #20:Rivet Shear
- #21:Strength of a Protruding Head Solid Rivet
- #22:Combination Shear and Tension Loads on Standard AN Bolts
- #23:Shear Strengths of "AN" Standard Bolts and Pins
- #24:Strength of Steel Cable
- #25:Cable Elongation
- #26:Effects of Power on Lift Coefficients
- #27:Calibration of Airspeed Static Source
- #28:Trailing Cone Static Source
- #29:Measuring Lift To Drag Ratio
- #30:Airspeed Indicator Calibration
- #31:Pitot-Static System Position Error Calibrations
