Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 31, 2025

Mike had built up a considerable amount of flight hours, and had his sights set on a job flying for the airlines. The airlines eventually did come calling for Mike, but he found that the maintenance business was supporting him, and he could be his own boss. .” He began giving Stearman rides, just like his father had.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

Innsbruck is one of the most beautiful and spectacular places on earth with an airport that can support a variety of airline equipment up to a small widebody such as the Boeing 767-300ER. The small aileron “tabs” were not doing a great job in crosswind ability. Taking off in violent winds was a task.

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Crosswind Weather Knot Aileron 105

AV Web

DECEMBER 22, 2024

I did not fly through tropical storms, hurricanes, or blizzards; the only inversions I have experienced were voluntary aileron rolls or the occasional intentional spin. My logbook does not include entries about big adventures unless you count various forays into local cookouts, fly-ins, and national parks near grass strip airports.

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Airplanes Hangar Aileron Crosswind 52

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Below are other critical pieces of the wings that help give the plane additional lift, reduce drag, or achieve lower speeds in preparation for landing: Ailerons: A French word meaning “fin” or “little wing,” the aileron helps control the airplane’s roll.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Then I had occasion to fly with an airline pilot, giving him a ride home in his leaseback before I was to fly it back. Sometimes it seems that planes go off the side of the runway in a crosswind landing because the pilot did not use full aileron deflection to counter the crosswind. He had the altitude nailed. Why might that be?

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Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Control Mechanisms Airplane Controls In airplanes, pilots manage flight using three primary controls: the ailerons, elevator, and rudder. Ailerons, located on the wings, control roll by increasing lift on one wing while decreasing it on the other, allowing the aircraft to bank left or right.

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Torque Lift Airplanes Stability 52

Aviation Bussiness News

JANUARY 30, 2025

These systems provide the power and precision needed to operate critical components, from landing gear and braking activation to flight control surfaces (ailerons, elevators, and rudder) and flaps. However, some airlines have reliability programmes in place and demand overhaul rather than test, to ensure optimum performance, Wheeler adds.

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Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

A violent and destructive engine failure on the aircraft, one of United Airlines ’ McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, caused the loss of all standard flight controls through the fracture of all three hydraulic syst ems on the aircraft. Captain Haynes continued his flying career with United Airlines after the incident involving Flight 232.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airlines Airline 294

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

Cherokee Six instrument panel Like my airline job, I fly nearly paperless using an iPad Mini and the ForeFlight app for navigation charts. Although not a problem for airliners, flying at high altitude airports presents challenges for pilots of small piston aircraft. Santa Fe is located 6,349 feet above sea level.

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Aerotime

OCTOBER 18, 2024

However, when airlines worldwide called for a smaller twinjet version of the 727, the illustrious 737 family was born, with the first flight of this game-changing aircraft taking place in 1967. The proposed aircraft was an airliner with a capacity for 110 to 120 passengers. Why was the Mercure designed?

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Jet Airplanes Airlines Airline 286

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

42-68738 would sustain several close calls, such as when it was damaged on December 23, 1944, when an 88m Flak shell exploded off the left aileron, rendering it inoperable. With its military service having ended, 42-68738 was acquired by Trans World Airlines and became a DC-3A with the airline number 303 and the registration NC86558.

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

” [Photo via Brad Donner] “My late mother was a stewardess, back when you could call them that, for Capital Airlines until she married my father. “Completing the wing panels and mating new ailerons to new wings and new wings to an old fuselage with new struts bracing the whole affair.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The airline merged with Republic, then Northwest, and finally Delta. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The pilot learned to fly in the U.S.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The airline merged with Republic, then Northwest, and finally Delta. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The pilot learned to fly in the U.S.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 86

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 2, 2025

A former Marine and airline pilot with 30,000-plus hours, he has owned two of the 10 Robin R2160s imported to the U.S., Navy medic and then flew Harriers for the Marine Corps, he was hired by American Airlines, flying a wide range of airlinersfrom the Boeing 727 to the McDonnell MD-11. and has, in fact, owned Six Zero Zulu twice.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Most commercial airliners have wings that are swept backward to allow them to fly close to the speed of sound safely. Pilots should avoid using the ailerons to correct the Dutch roll in small aircraft. It’s very tempting to counter the roll with ailerons. This resists the sideslip and helps return the aircraft to level flight.

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 29, 2024

By Chris Henry During the war in Vietnam, there was an airline that flew some of the most harrowing missions ever taken on by a group of this type, and over hostile territory. Because of this, they gained the title of “World’s Most Shot at Airline”. He reported back that both ailerons were in the full-up position.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Despite the hardships of the Great Depression, airline travel was coming of age with the arrival of the fast, safe, and comfortable Douglas DC-3. The ailerons, elevators, and rudder featured fabric covering stretched over lightweight aluminum frames. He called it the Spartan Executive. Then there was the Spartan’s ramp appeal.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 2, 2024

While Nantucket has commuter airline service, and a lot of business jet activity, there were enough flyers like us that we didn’t feel out of place. Maybe I’ll start with just one piece, say an aileron, just to check things out. We decided to stay two days. More tools? Not be a problem, always happy to have new tools.

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General Aviation Weather Pilot Cockpit 98

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Giant ailerons could whip the world around me with a 400-degree roll rate, and the thing would tolerate plus or minus 10 Gs, breaking yours truly long before any structure failed. I gave up and fired with all available firepower: “I taught your school’s owner how to do an aileron roll in 2003.” Here’s the thing.

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Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

But my goal was to fly the airliners that, as a child, I watched climbing out from La Guardia Airport over our Bronx apartment. A student’s properly demonstrated recovery showed that he understood that the rudder was the last control surface to lose effectiveness and the first to return, followed by the ailerons and elevator in that order.

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Heinkel He 111, one of the best-recognized German bombers of World War II, was developed in the early 1930s by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke as Germany’s secret project disguised as a civilian airliner. These tanks held up to 910 liters (240 US gallons) of fuel each.

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Ask the Pilot

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

November 1, 2024 Forgive me for being morbid, but did you know that no fewer than six major airline crashes occurred on Halloween? On Halloween morning, 1979, Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashed in Mexico City killing 73 people. That’s right, six. Ranked chronologically, they go like this… 1.

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Air Facts

JUNE 21, 2024

Nowadays, I feel even sorrier for him, because I see on Linkedin that he’s a first officer at a regional airline. As my buddy, who used to be a captain for Trans States, said “Flying in the airlines is like driving a car into a garage with someone you don’t like and staring out the windshield at the wall for four hours.”

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Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

In an effort to sidestep the Wright Brothers' patent on wing warping, Curtiss implemented ailerons as a practical solution for roll control that are still used by most modern aircraft. With a passenger capacity of six, the airplane was popular with early airlines Braniff, Delta, and Northwest, though it was also an effective freight hauler.

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AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Airlines of all flags have shared woes recently. Business aircraft operate like quasi-airlines, blazing creative trails to folly. The captain took control and applied aft stick pressure to return the airplane to a normal descent pitch attitude to prevent an overspeed. Thats FA tenacity.

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Aviation Bussiness News

JANUARY 27, 2025

The centre wing box, outer wing box, wing panels, flaps, and ailerons are built in Xi’an, while the centre fuselage sections are built-in and aircraft and assembly are done in Shanghai. Currently, the base model of the C919 can fly up to 2,200 nautical miles, compared to around 3,500nm for both the A320neo and 737 max.

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