Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

With its unique forward-tail design, retractable landing gear, and classic lines, it began the design philosophy for the over 11,000 Mooneys to follow. The wing featured a laminar flow design extending to the end of its generous flaps then a more conventional design forward of the ailerons.

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Tail Pilot Aileron Airplanes 94

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Missing its tail, pointing almost straight down, a Van’s RV-7A single-engine, two-seat homebuilt plummeted out of the blue and into the rocky ground. This wasn’t the first Van’s homebuilt to experience an in-flight tail separation. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The pilot died instantly. Was the breakup cause or effect?

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 88

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Missing its tail, pointing almost straight down, a Van’s RV-7A single-engine, two-seat homebuilt plummeted out of the blue and into the rocky ground. This wasn’t the first Van’s homebuilt to experience an in-flight tail separation. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The pilot died instantly. Was the breakup cause or effect?

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 86

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 5, 2025

It just so happened that 92460 was available, so a deal was made and the center section was sent to Texas along with the tail cone. “We were able to trade the oil coolers and exhausts to Chuck Whal for non-airworthy parts and ailerons.” Cleaned, repaired, and primed, she returned to Connecticut just about a year later.

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Rudder Tail Cockpit Lift 105

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

But the most radical feature of the Pigeon-Fraser was Albree’s all-moving tail design. Albree would consider this design to be his “make or break” aircraft to validate his theory for the Flying Tail design he and Roscoe P. serial numbers 116 and 117, with U.S. Timson had designed nearly ten years prior.

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Tail Airplanes Stability Aileron 98

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

Photo copyright Russell Munson] On April 26th, 1964 a radial-powered biplane with wings and tail in Champion Yellow and Stearman Vermillion-painted fuselage took off from an airfield near Lumberton, NC. “The steel fuselage frame, tail surfaces, and landing gear have been repaired as needed, media blasted, and primed.

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Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

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. What are the basic parts of this section?

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 5, 2024

Your ailerons and rudder will be neutral once you’re in the crab position. Simultaneously, we apply ailerons opposite the rudder input. The ailerons control our lateral position over the runway. We use just enough aileron input to prevent the aircraft from drifting downwind. We call this de-crabbing.

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Crosswind Longitudinal Axis Aileron Rudder 52

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The fuselage panels were composed of aluminum and the outer wings, main spar, armament bays, ailerons, elevators and rudders featured fabric as their skinning. He still succeeded in chopping off the enemy’s tail with the large propeller of his Corsair. m Length 10.26 m Height 4.50

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Aileron Rudder Ceiling Tail 98

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

However, if the aircraft has an oversized tail but not enough dihedral in the wings, it becomes vulnerable to spiral instability. Tail Design Larger, more effective stabilizers provide stronger restoring forces. Pilots should avoid using the ailerons to correct the Dutch roll in small aircraft.

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Stability Center of Gravity Aileron Rudder 52

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. In that configuration, it didnt depart the airplane but, instead, blocked airflow to the tail, with fatal results. But there are variations from plane to plane.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Aileron 92

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

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It was a beefed up, militarized version of the Beechcraft Bonanza with a narrowed fuselage and conventional tail, seating two pilots in tandem cockpits with controls and indicators configured similarly to tactical aircraft of the period. Dropping like an inverted dart tail first, Morris, from his aft cockpit perch exclaimed,“Wheeeee!”

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 29, 2025

For over ten years, the project has been underway, with museum volunteers having built a pair of wings to the same dimensions as the first set of wings on the original, and have built the fuselage, cockpit, and tail surfaces, along with the retractable skid rather than a wheel that Hughes had installed on the original H-1.

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Cockpit Firewall Aileron Rudder 116

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Aircraft Controls: Primary ControlsAilerons, Elevators, Rudder The three primary flight controls ailerons , elevators, and rudderare essential for piloting an aircraft. Ailerons, located on the wings, control the plane’s roll. Elevators, found on the tail, manage its pitch, or up-and-down motion.

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Aileron Drag Rudder Descent 52

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In order to shorten development time and save costs, the aircraft featured components of two closely related aircraft of the Beech Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas: the wings, ailerons, and landing gear of aBeech Bonanza general aviation aircraft and the tail assemblyof a Beech T-34 Mentor military trainer.

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Thrust Center of Gravity Descent Cockpit 75

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Just five minutes later, however, Burcham landed the aircraft, having been unable to retract the landing gear and was unaccustomed to the high sensitivity of the hydraulically assisted ailerons. However, the gear did not retract because of a safety switch left in place, and Kelly Johnson reassured Burcham of the sensitivity concerns.

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Jet Aileron Pilot Tail 111

Northstar VFR

JULY 21, 2024

As air flows over it, a force like lift results, and the tail is pulled in the opposite direction of the deflection. But instead of an upward force of lift on a wing, it’s a horizontal force pushing the tail of the plane causing the nose of the plane to move left and right. However, it’s not nearly as pronounced as on takeoff.

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Rudder Airplanes Pilot Stability 52

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 29, 2024

He reported back that both ailerons were in the full-up position. They stuck their tail rotor through some brush and peppered me with branches. The plane kept wanting to roll right, so I hard to start the jet and get it up to 100% on that side to keep it from rolling over. We couldn’t land there, but it would be a safe area to bail.

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Cargo Cockpit Airplanes Pilot 116

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.

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Airplanes Jet Pilot Weather 105

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 15, 2024

For better maintenance access, the small tail of the aircraft could be removed to work on or remove the engines. 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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Stability Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Rudder 52

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. Despite these efforts, the problems persisted.

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Weight-Shift-Control Aviation Technology Aileron Rudder 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Remember that wings, propeller blades, and tail surfaces are airfoil-shaped. It most commonly forms on the leading edges of your aircraft, including the wings, tail, and horizontal stabilizer, as well as on the propeller blades and pitot tubes. Many aircraft have heated leading edges on the wings, tail, and propellers.

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Pitot Tube Drag Lift Airfoil 52

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

.” It’s still configured as a cropduster, with gauges in the center section, a hopper, pump, and booms, with flat-bottom high lift wings, a metal covered fuselage and the most distinct looking “stearman” tail you’d ever find. With its wide stance, long wing and nose, and square tail it takes you back to the 1930’s in art deco style.

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Tail Airplanes Transponder Aileron 122

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 6, 2024

Brooks had long wished to own an airworthy Flying Fortress as his father, Elton Brooks, had flown 35 missions as a B-17 tail gunner with the 570th BS, 390th BG from RAF Framlingham in England. Left unchecked, the fire consumed most of the aircraft; just the tail and outboard wing sections survived the blaze.

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Tail Airplanes Cockpit Firewall 126

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This under-mounted tail design was chosen to enhance the gunner’s field of fire and echoed elements seen in earlier seaplanes, such as the German Hansa-Brandenburg models. Both the upper and lower wings included ailerons, maximizing maneuverability. Further challenges arose from the central float.

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Stability Tail Aileron Rudder 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

On the early Bristol Biplanes (Boxkites) the ailerons were called ‘balancers.’ ’ The Wright Brothers aggressive litigation (against Blriot and Curtiss among others) over their patent as they saw it of the aileron did not help matters. An example of the Blriot control system on display in Londons Science Museum.

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Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Aileron Airplanes 60

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 17, 2024

The rounded leading edge was correctly fitted but the ailerons were not modified and remained the ones of the C.200. 202 Folgore, such as a fixed tail wheel and radio access panel of the same shape as those of a late C.202. To proceed with their reconstruction, a left-half wing of a C.200 AerMacchi C.205V

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Torque Pilot Aileron Tail 133

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The ailerons, elevators, and rudder featured fabric covering stretched over lightweight aluminum frames. The Executive’s futuristic aerodynamic lines, rivaled only by the contemporary 1937 Harlow PJC-2 monoplane, were accentuated by its polished fuselage, wings, and tail. Then there was the Spartan’s ramp appeal.

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Rudder Stability Airplanes Aileron 80

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The tail turret evolved into a powered version, incorporating four Browning machine guns. Sunderland Mark II, showing ASV Mark II “stickleback” antennas in front of the tail. It carried four Browning machine guns in a powered tail turret and additional guns in manually operated positions on either side of the fuselage.

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Center of Gravity Tail Lift Aileron 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

I’ve seen a single person lift a Tiger Moth by the tail to take it out of its hangar. Courtesy: Patrick Chovanec] The silver knobs on the left control throttle, fuel mixture, and aileron trim. However, the trickiest part of takeoff for most tailwheel airplanes is still when the tail comes up.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Lift 115

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. He's at full takeoff power and he's got the tail up! However, turning the wheel actuates the rudder (instead of the ailerons).

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Airplanes Runway Pilot Aileron 56

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

True, a slightly higher aspect ratio wing was desired, which in turn required a larger vertical tail and thus a little extra mass, but the size, approximately 20% larger than a Widgeon, was set. The Mallard—it’s a trike—has a tail stinger because it otherwise falls on its tail when loading.”

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 77

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. But you can see the change to separate ailerons and flaps is just one part of preparing the F2 to grow into a four-place airplanebuying aerodynamic benefits now to spend later on a heavier, more powerful model. Well see about that.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

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

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The tail cone went to Odegaard Wings Inc., A replacement propeller assembly has been sourced, as a set of ailerons and other items are required to complete the job. in Kindred, North Dakota, while Ezell Aviation, of Breckenridge, Texas received the forward fuselage and center wing structure. facility in Jerome for re-working.

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Aileron Tail 122

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The pilots of both the RNAS and the RFC loved the performance of their Pups for its light weight, good climb rate, and excellent agility (owing largely to its low wing loading and in having ailerons on both sets of its wings).

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Flight Deck Pilot Knot Airplanes 86