Van’s RV-15 at Oshkosh – Twenty-Three

Isabel Goyer

Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 09:52 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

Van's Aircraft is exploring high-wing aircraft design, a significant departure from their typical low-wing models.
The design of doors is a critical difference in high-wing aircraft, an area Van's has not previously built.
Despite being new territory for Van's, the doors on their high-wing design appear conventional and tried-and-true.

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High-wing design is different in many respects from low-wing design, and one of the most critical areas is in the way the doors are designed and built, and Van’s has never built anything like this before. That all said, these doors look totally conventional, and when it comes to doors, tried and true is a very good thing.

Isabel Goyer

A commercial pilot, Isabel Goyer has been flying for more than 40 years, with hundreds of different aircraft in her logbook and thousands of hours. An award-winning aviation writer, photographer and editor, Ms. Goyer led teams at Sport Pilot, Air Progress and Flying before coming to Plane & Pilot in 2015.