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What Every Pilot Needs to Know about the Airplane Rudder

Northstar VFR

It’s a rite of passage for pilots-in-training to hear these words come from their flight instructor repeatedly. The pilot can control the yawing of the plane by inputs on the rudder pedals. Some new student pilots think the rudder and vertical stabilizer are the same thing. The pilot controls the throttle to create thrust.

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Macchi Fighters Survivors

Vintage Aviation News

Captured in Africa by American troops, it was transferred to the US and subjected to a series of flight evaluations in September 1945 by the pilots of the Army’s Air Technical Service Command at Wright and Freeman fields. The rounded leading edge was correctly fitted but the ailerons were not modified and remained the ones of the C.200.

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