Airfoil Horizontal Stabilizer Pilot 
Vintage Aviation News
AUGUST 16, 2024
Assault gliders were of course used in Operations such as Husky, Overlord, Market Garden, and Varsity, and just like their piston engine counterparts, glider pilots had to learn somehow. It will be coupled with a wind tunnel and a few different types of airfoils to demonstrate the effect of airflow at different angles.
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 22, 2025
In October 1914, Albree and Timson drew up plans for a new monoplane, the Model G Scout, which was first flown by test pilot Clifford Webster on July 15, 1915, at Nahant Beach, just south of the Swampscott garage. The Albree-Timson Model G Scout monoplane, a precursor of the Model SG Pursuit, during a test flight at Nahant Beach, MA. (Old
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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. 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.
Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 3, 2024
When spelled geoduck it represents a grotesque, oversized mollusk, or clam to we pilot simpletons. Much depends on the aircraft’s weight, pilot skill and, surprisingly, “how much abuse you want to experience. Checking the oil is the main attraction to the pilot. The airplane will handle more than you want to.”
Plane and Pilot
DECEMBER 16, 2024
While LSAs in general have been tagged for having slightly underbuilt landing gearone of the more common accident scenarios is a newly transitioned pilot not managing the slickness of this kind of airplane and wiping out the gear during a botched landingthe goal is for the F2 to be unusually robust. More lessons learned.
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