Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 20, 2025

Unlike the Cessnas all-aluminum airframe construction, the Stinson uses a steel tube fuselage with fabric covering the fuselage, wing, and tail. This particular 108 is the dash three model, identifiable by the large vertical stabilizer. It has a low 2,221 hours on the airframe with no known damage history.

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Transponder Stability Tail Airplanes 96

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 1, 2025

Photo NACA/NASA The single-place XF-92A airplane had a delta wing swept at 60 degrees. feet high at the tip of the vertical stabilizer. The right delta wing and aft fuselage of the XF-92A has some tufts attached for airflow analysis. feet long, had a 31.3-foot foot wingspan, and was 17.5 Photo NACA/NASA

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Airfoil Aileron Rudder Stability 64

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

There is nothing quite like going to the Vintage Section at EAA Airventure Oshkosh and taking the time to appreciate a meticulously restored airplane from the 1920s or the 1930s that looks as though it flew straight from the factory, 90 or 100 years ago. Gradually, the Bull Pup was resembling an airplane once again!

Tail 111

Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Airplanes 111

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Then design an airplane and purchase one of the great names in aviation history to produce it. The story begins in 1947 when Anderson and Greenwood formed a company to design and produce inexpensive and innovative airplanes. Their first design, the Anderson Greenwood AG-14, was a 90 hp, twin-tailed, two-seat pusher.

Tail 98

Tail Airplanes Crosswind Knot 98

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 9, 2025

On this day in aviation history, January 9, 1943, a large four engine transport aircraft with three tail fins rose from the runway at Burbank Airport, California. San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives) For its time, the Constellation was one of the most innovative airplanes in the world.

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Tail Stability Pilot Hangar 116

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Docile as any airplane ever built, many 172 pilots eventually long for something more interesting and engaging as their subsequent types. As a 1979 N-model this 172 incorporates the swept vertical stabilizer and rear cabin window, giving it the most modern look of any 172 variants. As 172s go, this is one of the more unique examples.

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Stability Tail Airplanes General Aviation 98

Northstar VFR

JULY 21, 2024

The airplane rudder is one of the most misunderstood of the primary flight controls. The yaw of the airplane rotates around its vertical axis. The rudder is a movable flight control which is mounted on the trailing edge of the vertical stabilizer on the back of the airplane. Why is the rudder so important? Why is this?

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Rudder Airplanes Pilot Stability 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Good, honest bankers , brokers , and backers who have been through many airplane acquisitions before will know the ropes and can guide you through the rough spots. Many times, people have fallen in love with a certain airplane type early on and will rush out to buy it, any one of it, as soon as they’re able. Believe me, stuff happens.

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Airplanes Knot Annual Inspection Tail 52

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

With carrier aviation still in its infancy, airships could fly further than many airplanes of the day and remain in the air for days on end without the need to land to refuel and replenish their supplies. Surrounded by rain and lightning, the Akron plunged nose-down toward the Atlantic at a nose-down attitude in the pre-dawn hours of April 4.

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Lift Tail Stability Wind Shear 59

Flight Training Central

JANUARY 27, 2025

1) High Roundout Sometimes when the airplane appears to temporarily stop moving downward, the roundout has been made too rapidly and the airplane is flying level, too high above the runway. This would result in the airplane stalling and dropping hard onto the runway. This climbing during the roundout is known as ballooning.

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Airplanes Runway Accelerated Stall Lift 89

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The weapon was guided by the launch aircraft through the manual command to line of sight (MCLOS) method, with the pilot tracking the flight of the missile via two bright flares on the weapon’s tail and making corrections using a small joystick in the cockpit.] Colonel Scott flew this airplane 26 March 1967 when he shot down a MiG 17.

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Pilot Cockpit Knot Stability 105

Flight Training Central

MAY 6, 2024

Low wing airplanes were designed by the very devil himself. You don’t have to hang around airports, airplanes or pilots very long until someone will crank up the high wing versus low wing debate. You don’t have to hang around airports, airplanes or pilots very long until someone will crank up the high wing versus low wing debate.

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Lift Drag Airplanes Ground Effect 97

Learn to Fly

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The ones used in airplanes are composite laminates. The F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter features vertical tail feathers and horizontal stabilators made from carbon fiber-reinforced bismaleimide composite. First boats, then Corvettes, helicopter blades, and even water-skis. Photo courtesy of Marine Plastics Ltd.

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Stability Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Cargo 73

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

No Buck Rogers,” Darryl says, “I thought if I used the airplane to break the 3km speed record held by the Navy, I could raise a sponsor for the altitude record.” The tail section, minus horizontal stabilizer, came from a crashed TF-104G that was found in an Ontario, California junkyard.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Thrust 124

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Aerodynamic Differences Fixed-Wing Aircraft (Airplanes) Airplanes , or fixed-wing aircraft, generate lift through their stationary wings as they move forward. Managing these elements requires continuous adjustments by the pilot to maintain stability and control. The skies awaitchoose your path and let us help you get there.

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Torque Lift Airplanes Stability 52

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Learn the basic structure of an airplane while in flight school at Leopard Aviation. From the navigation display to the wing structure, understanding all segments of an airplane is crucial in the aviation industry. This long, metal tube connects all the main components of an airplane. What are the basic parts of this section?

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

Air

MARCH 10, 2025

It’s triggered by a disruption , like a gust of wind, impacting the aircraft’s stability. Aircraft with higher roll stability are more prone to experiencing Dutch roll. Static vs. Dynamic Stability Static stability describes an aircraft’s initial tendency to return to its original position after being disturbed.

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Longitudinal Axis Stability Lift Pilot 52

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

With expander-tube brakes, it is difficult to brake sufficiently to pick up the tail. Current L-4/J-3 Cub owners are not inexperienced cadets, so they often choose to accept the nose-over risk and retrofit their airplanes with Grove disc brakes under an FAA-approved Supplemental Type Certificate.

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Firewall Gross Weight Horizontal Stabilizer Stability 105

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

But how to do so when you’ve known the airplane since its early development years, as I have? She warned me ahead of time that the airplane wouldn’t appear different from the outside but to expect something truly different inside. The logic is, if you can enter the airplane with the key fob, you can start the engine.

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Pilot Airplanes Approach Jet 111

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 15, 2024

On this day in aviation history, December 15, 1948, the small, white, tailless airplane rose from the Rogers Dry Lakebed into the desert skies of California. For better maintenance access, the small tail of the aircraft could be removed to work on or remove the engines. It weighed 7,820 lbs.

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Stability Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Rudder 52

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Contemporary postcard showing Louis Bleriot flying the Bleriot VIII, a forerunner to the Bleriot XI (Wikimedia Commons) By 1908, Blriot developed the Blriot VIII, the first airplane to combine a hand-operated joystick for the aircraft’s pitch and roll axis and foot-operated rudder controls for the yaw axis.

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Airplanes Horizontal Stabilizer Rudder Stability 52

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Born in 1899, James Smith McDonnell had attended college at Princeton and MIT and gained experience as an aeronautical engineer in the nascent American aviation industry with companies such as the Stout Metal Airplane Division of the Ford Motor Company, the Hamilton Metalplane Company, the Huff Daland Airplane Company, and the Glenn L.

Gross Weight 98

Gross Weight Cockpit Pilot Airplanes 98

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

BOOP , BOOP, boop," said the airplane as the propeller came to a stop. Scott started the airplane again for Ray. said the airplane again. Ray later found that the nuts securing the remaining three mounts were insufficiently torqued by whomever mounted that engine before the Williamson Flying Club bought the airplane in 2021.

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Torque Airplanes Clearance Horizontal Stabilizer 52

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 23, 2024

The chances of survival during rapid loss of airspeed soon after takeoff plummet dramatically if a pilot attempts to return to base, but the initial instinct to save the airplane is a hard one to fight. The tail section separated at the rear gunner’s position and was remarkably well preserved.

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Cockpit Runway Drag Pilot 130

Ask the Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

One small hazard might’ve been broken material striking the rear stabilizers. Worst case would’ve been the slat breaking apart further, or detaching completely, unlikely as that might be, but even this wouldn’t crash the plane, so long as the stabilizers or tail weren’t struck and badly damaged.

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Stability Lift Runway Tail 52

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Known by many names, from the “Big-Tailed Beast” (often shortened to the “Beast”) to the “Son-of-a-B h 2nd Class”, SB2C Helldiver remains an important case study for what went wrong, and what went right in the US Navy’s efforts to develop a new dive bomber for its carrier fleet.

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Tail Stability Pilot Approach 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Ice can affect everything from how the airplane flies to the engines staying functional. Remember that wings, propeller blades, and tail surfaces are airfoil-shaped. It usually happens when you’re flying through freezing rain, where raindrops spread out and freeze upon hitting the cold surface of your airplane.

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Pitot Tube Drag Lift Airfoil 52

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Is it a drone, or an airplane? In this article, we will explain all the different lights you may encounter on an airplane and their purpose. For example, the landing lights provide illumination for the pilots but also make the airplane more visible. What are those flashing lights in the sky? And what are those lights for?

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Airplanes Horizontal Stabilizer Runway Pilot 111

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Or how do modern airplanes reduce dangerous effects like aileron flutter or adverse yaw? What Is Aircraft Stability? Stability is the aircrafts tendency to maintain its attitude or orientation. Unstable aircraft designs are better suited for high-maneuverability aircraft like aerobatic stunt airplanes or military fighters.

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Aileron Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Longitudinal Axis 90

Aerotime

MARCH 4, 2025

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is to issue airworthiness directives (ADs) to US airlines concerning the engine nacelles on older generation Boeing 737 airplanes.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Tail Airplanes 268

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2024

As with any landing, it’s vital to have a stabilized approach. If you’re not stabilized at 200 feet AGL, go around. Make sure not to pull back too hard, or you could cause a tail strike. Check out How to Perfect Your Airplane Landings. Your sink rate, attitude, power setting, and airspeed should be steady.

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NOTAMs Runway Approach Descent 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

” He had been involved in another syndicate but after the airplane was sold Matt was on the lookout for “something unique, fast, two seats at least and that would be of interest at airshows etc. ” ZK-RAJ after having its overhauled horizontal stabilizers reinstalled in late September 2024. to put it mildly!

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Jet Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes 105

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Even during his student days, however, Albree was fascinated with airplanes, often to the detriment of his academic studies, and he began to build his own designs. But the most radical feature of the Pigeon-Fraser was Albree’s all-moving tail design. serial numbers 116 and 117, with U.S.

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Tail Airplanes Stability Aileron 98

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

Unable to turn, climb, or descend the aircraft using conventional flight control inputs and effectively left to fly an unflyable airplane, the crew were forced to rely on engine power alone to find and reach a suitable airfield and attempt a landing. With 296 passengers and crew onboard that day, the stakes could not have been higher.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airlines Airline 294

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

A flat spin happens when the center of gravity shifts too far aft (toward the tail), and the aircraft’s rotation becomes more horizontal. Flat spins are particularly hazardous because the level attitude and reduced airflow over the control surfaces make it difficult to regain control of the airplane.

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Center of Gravity Weight-Shift-Control Aileron Rudder 98

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Missing its tail, pointing almost straight down, a Van’s RV-7A single-engine, two-seat homebuilt plummeted out of the blue and into the rocky ground. Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 91

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Missing its tail, pointing almost straight down, a Van’s RV-7A single-engine, two-seat homebuilt plummeted out of the blue and into the rocky ground. Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth.

True Airspeed 90

True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 90