Aircraft Design and Construction Articles By Chris Heintz
Aeronautical engineer Chris Heintz is one of the most qualified and knowledgeable light aircraft designers today. With prior experience from Aerospatiale, de Havilland, and Avions Robin (France), Heintz has designed and introduced more than a dozen successful kit aircraft designs. Several of his designs have been produced as "factory-built" aircraft while thousands have been built by amateur builders (from plans and kits) around the world.
Prior to his retirement, Heintz regularly shared his design and construction expertise as a speaker to aviation groups and students of aeronautical engineering, and has been a regular speaker at both the EAA AirVenture (Oshkosh) and Sun'n Fun fly-in conventions. An aeronautical engineer, Heintz has the unique ability of being able to simplify design concepts and to clearly explain and illustrate light aircraft design and construction.
Prior to his retirement, Heintz regularly shared his design and construction expertise as a speaker to aviation groups and students of aeronautical engineering, and has been a regular speaker at both the EAA AirVenture (Oshkosh) and Sun'n Fun fly-in conventions. An aeronautical engineer, Heintz has the unique ability of being able to simplify design concepts and to clearly explain and illustrate light aircraft design and construction.
Following is a summary of some of Heintz' previously published short articles on light aircraft design and construction:
- Aircraft Design Made Easy: First in a series on basic calculations for designing your own light aircraft, first published in EAA Experimenter magazine (November 2002).
- Light Aircraft Construction Materials: Wood, Aluminum, Steel and Composites... and the properties of each.
- Light Aircraft Construction Materials: Structural considerations
- The First Flight of Your Aircraft (Flight Test)
- Performance Testing Your Aircraft (Flight Test)
- Riveted Joints (Part 1, Aircraft Construction)
- Riveted Joints (Part 2, Aircraft Construction)
- Choosing the Design of Your Aircraft
- Light Aircraft Airfoils - Part 1 of 4
- Light Aircraft Airfoils - Part 2 of 4
- Light Aircraft Airfoils - Part 3 of 4
- Light Aircraft Airfoils: STOL Applications - Part 4 of 4
- Horizontal Tail Design for Pitch, Stability And Control
- Control Of Our Airplane
- Light Airplane Weight & Balance
- Anatomy of a STOL Aircraft: Designing a Modern Short Take-Off and Landing Aircraft
The above articles (and others) are available from Zenith Aircraft Company's "Aircraft Design & Construction College" website.
