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What Every Pilot Needs to Know about the Airplane Rudder

Northstar VFR

These are called left turning tendencies and include P-factor, spiraling slipstream, torque, and gyroscopic precession. A pilot might have to use more aileron inputs, especially if it’s bumpy and the aircraft is getting moved around. There are other reasons the nose wants to yaw to the left at high power settings.

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Macchi Fighters Survivors

Vintage Aviation News

The rounded leading edge was correctly fitted but the ailerons were not modified and remained the ones of the C.200. To proceed with their reconstruction, a left-half wing of a C.200 200 was recovered at the AerMacchi factory which was used as a pattern for the reconstruction of the right wing.

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