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Everything You Need To Know About Ailerons

Pilot Institute

These control surfaces dictate the aircraft’s roll, and this allows it to bank smoothly through turns or even recover from turbulence. Roll or bank is the aircrafts movement about its longitudinal axis. This movement turns the aircraft about the longitudinal axis, making it enter a bank. How Do Ailerons Work?

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Incidents and accidents: AeroTime’s commercial airline safety roundup of 2024  

Aerotime

The contents of this article have been limited to commercial aircraft performing public transport flights, whether carrying cargo or passengers (or both). As the month ended, on March 31, 2024, a Safe Air Boeing 727 operating a cargo flight from Juba to Malakal in Kenya crashed following a heavy landing at Malakal Airport in South Sudan.

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