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. A small Challenger 604 business jet flying at Flight Level 340 passed one thousand feet below an Airbus A380 flying the same route in the opposite direction. How Are Wingtip Vortices Formed?

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

“Coming back around, I’m usually at about 60 knots. 2B Fighter, a Bulldog Seems Logical Storo enjoyed a long career with FedEx, first flying Falcon jets, then Boeing 727s, and finally DC-10s before retiring in 2004. In this fighter, you don’t make square turns, so to speak. ” Ed Storos and His Bulldog.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

When it comes to private jets, the industry feels the need for speed. In just the past few years, weve watched two of the fastest private jets in history take to the skies – the Bombardier Global 8000 and the Gulfstream G700. But the G700s reign as one of the fastest private jets will be short-lived.

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Jet Ceiling Thrust Airfoil 258

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

Baby boomers will remember a time when the sight of any small business jet would be described as a Learjet. However, nothing lasts forever, and sadly, the last Learjet was delivered to longtime Lear operator Northern Jet in late March 2022. Carly Simon sang, “You flew your Learjet up to Nova Scotia” in her iconic No.

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Jet Airfoil Airplanes Ceiling 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

We routinely taxi at 1200 rpm due to the low spray…[we] can cruise at 10 knots” in displacement mode, something a Goose can’t do. 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. But it will go 140 knots at 28 gph total.)

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 79