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A Bristol Bulldog Biplane Fighter is Once Again in the Sky

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

What you do is you sit up high for takeoff and as you add power and the tail comes up almost immediately, very quickly. “I started to make a normal landing, but as I was getting ready to touch down, I pulled the power off and the tail just fell out from underneath me,” he said. The landings are a little tricky, if you will.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit

Wingtip Vortices and Wake Turbulence

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 seen from the aircrafts tail, the vortex rotates in the anti-clockwise direction on the right wingtip and the clockwise direction on the left wingtip. How Are Wingtip Vortices Formed?

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway

A Bristol Bulldog Biplane Fighter is Once Again in the Sky

Wingtip Vortices and Wake Turbulence

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