Aerotime

APRIL 3, 2025

His system would provide an aircraft with automatic stability and control mechanism, through the control of the ailerons, stabilizer, and tail rudder through the use of a set of simple gyroscopes. Sperrys innovation was presented at the competition installed in a Curtiss C-2 single-engine airplane with a hull-shaped lower fuselage.

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Weight-Shift-Control Cockpit Pilot Stability 152

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The modifications included replacing the single fin and rudder with a twin-tail design to improve stability. A particularly harrowing incident occurred during a test flight in March 1934 when the ailerons tore off one of the prototypes mid-flight. Aviation technology was advancing rapidly, and newer designs were already on the horizon.

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Weight-Shift-Control Aviation Technology Aileron Rudder 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Although it is sort of heavy on the ailerons,” Storo said. What you do is you sit up high for takeoff and as you add power and the tail comes up almost immediately, very quickly. The tail touched down hard, but to save the landing—and the airplane—Storo put power to it and went around for another approach.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The fuselage was made from a welded steel tube framework, with duralumin skin placed on the forward and center sections, while the rear section, along with its twin tail design, was covered with fabric. Wreck of the Fiat B.R.20M 20M off the Agrigento coast (Wikimedia Commons via user Impetuous Angel) While the Fiat BR.20

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Payload Pilot Aileron Stability 52