Bearhawk Aircraft

General aviation has been begging for something truly revolutionary for decades. Though series of sidling advances have seen manufacturing revolvein circles that isfrom its robust wartime days, little evolution has occurred in the way we fly. The airframes we construct today remain markedly unchanged. Sheet metal flivvers, tubular frames, and craft... s of wood and fabric construction are still pervasive. A look from the inside out perhaps tells a different story. Significant evolutions have arrived in the cockpit, in the ways we navigate and communicate. Though its reasonable to posit we still aviate like it was 1863. That s when French writer and naval officer Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de La Landelle coined the word aviation, from the Latin avis expressing bird-like qualities. In those very early days, navigation and communication were absent the flying vernacular. Flight was rigid, and aviation was done by the seat of ones pants. While in the age of steam gauges, instruments relied on classical physics and coarse (vs. discreet) sensors to quantify aviation data relevant in the environment of airspace. These measures gave relative and latent indications regarding: wind, ground and vessel movement; time and distance travelled; and propeller revolutions as an expression power and efficiency. The basic instrument panel comprised a set of commonly round dials and, adjunctly if at all, a two-way radio and position transponder. Steam gauges served for decades until the dials limitations were exposed by the digital age. Thankfully the modern cockpit strived, at its very least, to bring to bear all three maximsaviate, navigate and communicate. The fundamental change at hand was arithmetical precision with which power, speed, space and time could be governed. This all happened around the turn of the century that was Y2K (an alarm expunged in its own hype). The digital successor to Y2K was GPS. In this new era, flight specifics would be plotted digitally, accurately and nearly instantaneously. Round dial gauges of the ...Read More