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Exploring the Essential Sections of an Aircraft: A Comprehensive Guide

Pilot's Life Blog

Learn the basic structure of an airplane while in flight school at Leopard Aviation. From the navigation display to the wing structure, understanding all segments of an airplane is crucial in the aviation industry. This long, metal tube connects all the main components of an airplane.

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Today In Aviation History: First Flight of the Northrop X-4 Bantam

Vintage Aviation News

On this day in aviation history, December 15, 1948, the small, white, tailless airplane rose from the Rogers Dry Lakebed into the desert skies of California. The X-4 had no horizontal stabilizer in order to avoid interaction of shockwaves between the wings but had a vertical stabilizer and rudder.

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The Hazards of Aircraft Icing: Explained

Pilot Institute

Ice can affect everything from how the airplane flies to the engines staying functional. It usually happens when you’re flying through freezing rain, where raindrops spread out and freeze upon hitting the cold surface of your airplane. If ice starts building up on your aircraft, you’re looking at a serious problem.

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What Is a Flat Spin?

Pilot Institute

PARE: Power idle, Ailerons neutral, Rudder opposite, Elevator forward. Flat spins are particularly hazardous because the level attitude and reduced airflow over the control surfaces make it difficult to regain control of the airplane. Ailerons: Neutral. The movement of the ailerons will change the angle of attack of both wings.

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The Albree Pigeon-Fraser: The First American Fighter

Vintage Aviation News

Even during his student days, however, Albree was fascinated with airplanes, often to the detriment of his academic studies, and he began to build his own designs. Born in Boston on February 3, 1888, Albree would graduate from Dartmouth College in 1912 after attending courses at Union College and Amherst College.

Tail 98
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35 years ago: How a United Airlines crew landed an ‘unflyable’ DC-10

Aerotime

Unable to turn, climb, or descend the aircraft using conventional flight control inputs and effectively left to fly an unflyable airplane, the crew were forced to rely on engine power alone to find and reach a suitable airfield and attempt a landing. With 296 passengers and crew onboard that day, the stakes could not have been higher.

Runway 301
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Split-S Decision

Plane and Pilot

Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. The sole probable cause was the pilot’s ‘improper aerobatic maneuver…that exceeded the airplane’s design limits. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4.