Vintage Aviation News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
During these years, he concluded that the inner surface of the venturi tube needed an airfoil shape to achieve the greatest efficiency. The duct, as predicted by Stipa, had a profile similar to that of the airfoil, with a fairly small rudder and elevators mounted on the trailing edge of the duct. The Stipa-Caproni in flight.
Fear of Landing
MARCH 22, 2024
Glass Cockpit During the 1970s and 1980s, NASA created and tested the concept of an advanced cockpit configuration that replaced dial and gauge instruments with flat panel digital displays. Glass cockpits are in use on commercial, military, and general aviation aircraft, and on NASA’s space shuttle fleet.
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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. Her father had been allowed to sit in the back seat on the last day and violated the sterile cockpit rule. The oldest is Archimedes’ Law. Quiet Dad, I am trying to land the plane.”
Vintage Aviation News
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
However, by the mid 1950s, the desire to increase the range and speed of large airplanes led to swept-back wings of high aspect ratio, thin airfoils, and fuselages with high fineness ratios (i.e. The door to the cockpit area is open showing a view of the ladder that folds down to be used by the pilots to enter and leave the area.
Pilot Institute
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Remember that wings, propeller blades, and tail surfaces are airfoil-shaped. Ice build-up on the airframe changes the airflow pattern around these airfoils. Well, while frost isn’t as dangerous as clear ice, it can still block your view through the cockpit window. If you don’t act quickly, you’ll soon feel its effects.
Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 3, 2024
The airfoil is a Harry Riblett shape, giving modernized flow separation on the leading edge for a soft stall yet with good lift and drag performance. After squeezing through the landing gear houses I settled into the right seat for our evaluation flights because frankly, this is a complex airplane with a complex cockpit.
Vintage Aviation News
OCTOBER 18, 2024
“Sitting so high up and trying to look down inside the cockpit for the airspeed is nearly impossible. ” When looking at the Bulldog, notice that the wing is very thin over the cockpit, but bulges to port and starboard to accommodate the 33 Imperial gallon gravity feed fuel tanks. of Great Britain, built 443 of the type.
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