Cycle World Technical Editor Kevin Cameron recently spoke to students in the Aviation Maintenance Technology program about the ways the evolution of aircraft was also useful in improving motorcycle technology. Mr. Cameron said, "Aircraft has to be light enough to fly and heavy enough to make it to it's destination reliably. This drove innovation in design and metallurgy that made it all the way to motorcycles."
Mr. Cameron, who has spoken in a number of classes at FCTS, has been an editor at Cycle World magazine since 1991. Before that he was editor at Cycle for almost 20 years. From the early 1970's through the 1980's, Mr. Cameron was a race tuner.
A graduate in physics from Harvard University, Mr. Cameron is the author of several books on motorcycles specializing in performance and engineering.
For a deep dive into the relationship between improvements to aircraft relating to motorcycles, check out the December 3 edition of the Cycle World Podcast with host Mark Hoyer, the magazine's editor-in-chief. The episode, How Motorcycles Improved Because of Aircraft! can be found on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and X.