Aileron Jet Rudder 
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
At first glance, ailerons look like ordinary hinged panels on the wings, but don’t be fooledthey’re important for keeping an aircraft both stable and maneuverable. But theres much more to ailerons than just rolling left or right. Or how do modern airplanes reduce dangerous effects like aileron flutter or adverse yaw?
Vintage Aviation News
MARCH 5, 2025
. “We were able to trade the oil coolers and exhausts to Chuck Whal for non-airworthy parts and ailerons.” Gary Dunn, of the Classic Jet Fighters Museum in Australia, visited several times, helping the crew fabricate special tooling to allow CASC to manufacture hat channels on their shops rolling machine.
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Plane and Pilot
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Flight controls mean ailerons, elevator, and rudder, of course, but on some airplanes, if the trim is mis-set, the plane might be difficult or impossible to control. This reason is more important in jets than to us single-engine pilots, but it still applies. Flight controls and engine controls are the obvious ones.
Vintage Aviation News
OCTOBER 30, 2024
He replaced the two-cylinder, horizontally opposed Detroit Aero 25hp engine with a three-cylinder Szekely SR-3 45-hp radial engine, and in 1935, he changed out the wooden fuselage frame for a tubular steel one, and removed the pulleys and cables for wing warping and added ailerons to the wings.
Air Facts
MAY 24, 2024
Pointing my thumb into the wind to get my ailerons around I counted one…two…three, and still, no upwind main touching down. Number two cleared to land, runway one two behind the Citation jet,” was the call from Tower. My left hand follows which means instead of full deflection on the ailerons, I’m now aileron neutral.
Plane and Pilot
MARCH 2, 2025
The Robin has a placard that reads: Rudder in fully opposed direction; Elevator control pulled fully back; Ailerons in neutral position. A hint of the Robins aerobatic pretensions might be the size of the rudder. You do need to apply a lot of right rudder on climbout, but if youre a tailwheel pilot, that should come naturally.
Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
I watched the stick flutter to and fro in sync with the rudder pedals as Wilkins fought to maintain the centerline, all the while pushing in the throttle. Just before our appointed entry time, a privately owned performance jet somehow missed the approach to the 12,000-foot-long runway and then declared a low-fuel emergency.
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