Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

I have actually taxied out with a semi-crosswind where I just turned around and came back in because I could not control the airplane with the earlier brakes. I can control it now with the Red Line Brakes, but this airplane is not built for crosswinds. It is a terrible airplane for crosswinds.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 125

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

When air flows over the aircraft wing, the shape of the airfoil creates low pressure above the wing and relatively higher pressure below the wing. As at higher altitudes, the vortex movement near the ground is affected by crosswinds. Crosswinds can push the downwind vortex into your approach path.

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Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

They are designed with a special shape called an airfoil, which encourages passing air to turn and deflect downward. This is why the typical airfoil shape has a curved top and a flat bottom, especially in slower-speed general aviation aircraft. Whenever aircraft encounter crosswinds, the most noticeable impact is felt in yaw.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

For one thing, the F2s fuselage hangs from a completely new wing with two distinct airfoil shapes. An obvious discontinuity leads to a thinner airfoil inboard. You might ask what happens with crosswind landings when you take away rudder authority. Wings, Things Major aerodynamic tweaks have been made. In this case, nothing.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Combining the Gweduck’s advanced hull with its counter-rotating propellers means differential power allows crosswind water taxiing impossible in floatplanes along with higher hull-in-water taxiing speeds. “We A not so obvious advantage is taxiing. Keeping drag corralled was emphasized as the Gweduck mission is foremost long-distance cruising.

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