Flight Training Central

MAY 7, 2024

The term 'angle of attack' is defined as the angle between the airplane's longitudinal axis and that of the air striking the airfoil. Air traveling faster over the curved upper surface of an airfoil causes lower pressure on the top surface. Aircraft power, pitch, bank, and trim. airplane's center line and the relative wind.

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Gross Weight Longitudinal Axis Airfoil Lift 98

Learn to Fly

JULY 11, 2024

An angle of attack (AOA) indicator can determine the aerodynamic health of the airfoil (wing). More simply, an AOA indicator displays the margin between the current AOA of the airfoil, and the AOA at which the airfoil will stall (critical AOA), providing the pilot with a visual and sometimes audible indication.

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Airfoil Center of Gravity Density Altitude Drag 52

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 16, 2024

It will be coupled with a wind tunnel and a few different types of airfoils to demonstrate the effect of airflow at different angles. The airframe itself never flew with the military – being put into storage immediately after being built – but was eventually sold to civilians.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Airfoil Rudder Stability 110

AV Web

JULY 23, 2024

For the experimental market, Hartzell has added its Carbon Blended Airfoil propeller (the company has a re-naming contest for this propeller, with a goodie bag for any AirVenture attendee who comes up with a better name) that maintains the same performance gains as its all-metal prop with a savings of 20 pounds in weight.

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Airfoil Knot Airlines Airline 52

Inspire

APRIL 1, 2020

He performed a lot of the build himself, including installing the landing gear, airfoils in the tail, and most of the tedious portions of construction. Richard Kampeter, EAA Lifetime 1128617, began constructing his Kitfox approximately four years ago.

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Airfoil Tail Hangar 40

Fear of Landing

MARCH 22, 2024

Supercritical Airfoil During the 1960s and 1970s, NASA scientist Richard Whitcomb led a team of researchers to develop and test a series of unique geometric shapes of airfoils or wing sections that could be applied to subsonic transports to improve lift and reduce drag.

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Wind Shear Airfoil Drag Airlines 52

Air Facts

JULY 22, 2024

irplane controls work per the Lever Principle, and a wing’s airfoil shape increases lift via the Bernouilli Principle and Coanda Effect. The oldest is Archimedes’ Law. The Four Forces of Flight (Lift, Thrust, Drag & Gravity) obey Newton’s Three Laws of Motion.

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Lift Airfoil Knot Airplanes 80