Plane and Pilot

MARCH 28, 2025

With two seats in open cockpit configuration, it provides the feel of a barnstorming biplane with the size, weight, and operating economy of a Cessna 150. Inside, the little panel is perfectly suited to a small, open cockpit homebuilt – small and simple.

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Cockpit Drag Airplanes Pilot 91

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Combining the data shown on your cockpit instruments helps you make better judgments. One example is Indicated Airspeed (IAS), which is the airspeed you read directly from cockpit instruments. For instance, an aircraft maintaining a steady IAS at 30,000 feet will have a faster TAS than at sea level due to reduced drag from thinner air.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Altimeter Lift 52

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

. “It’s heavier, it has a lot more drag, but it still flies like a DC-3,” he begins. ” Many commenters on social media wondered about the drag and weight, and Eric says that the empty weight of the airplane is over 20,000 pounds, making it a very heavy DC-3.

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Rudder Airplanes Drag Pilot 144

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Additionally, the S-72 was equipped with a low-drag fuselage, allowing it to achieve a maximum speed of 340 knots in a dive. The aircraft featured a three-place cockpit with side-by-side seating for two test pilots and a flight test engineer. S-72 RSRA compound in flight.

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Drag Knot Approach Tail 119

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Understanding the Basics of Flight Aerodynamics 101 Flying a small plane revolves around understanding four key forces: lift, thrust, drag, and weight. Thrust, produced by the engine, propels the plane forward, overcoming drag, which is the resistance caused by air. These forces must work in harmony to maintain flight stability.

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Weather Pilot Drag Rudder 52

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Understanding the Basics of Flight Principles of Flight: Lift, Weight, Thrust, and Drag Flying a plane for the first time requires a basic understanding of the forces that make flight possible. Thrust, produced by the engines, moves the plane forward, while drag, or air resistance, slows it down.

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AV Web

JANUARY 22, 2025

Most accounts point outcorrectlyhow decisions about spacing and glide path management, and even whether it was wise to hold the pick-up game contest in winds that caused cancellation of a larger, planned STOL Drag event, may have contributed to this crash. Mayday STOL Drag Races, a slow-flight competition. Those lessons are all valid.

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Final Approach Airplanes Drag Pilot 52

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 23, 2024

This is consistent with the theory, as a displaced torpedo would have bulged the bomb bay doors, which wind resistance could then have pealed back – leading to a rapid increase in drag preventing the aircraft from gaining altitude at sufficient speed. The Helldiver’s wing center section at the crash site. photo via Kevin R.

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Cockpit Runway Drag Pilot 130

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The unique cylindrical design of the fuselage allowed for a streamlined profile and reduced drag, increasing the overall efficiency. Additionally, the aircraft had low, fixed, spatted main landing gear and a tailwheel with twin open cockpits. Thus, the benefits in engine efficiency were canceled out.

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Airfoil Rudder Drag Stability 98

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

So when you’re in the cockpit, you’ll know exactly what to do. When the aircraft is in a high-drag configuration, a stall at a low altitude can be quite dangerous. Landing flaps add a lot of drag; removing this notch will help the aircraft accelerate quickly. Why Practice Power-off Stalls?

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Descent Approach AGL Lift 52

iPad Pilot News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Once you get proficient with them, they can really save time in the cockpit. Drag an app from the dock to get split-screen – While an app is open, swipe from the bottom of the screen to display the tray with favorite and recent apps. Then, tap and drag an app icon to overlay it on the app that’s already open.

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Drag Pilot Cockpit Airplanes 72

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cockpit and Avionics Sitting in the cockpit of a Cessna 172, one is immediately struck by the advanced Garmin G1000 NXi avionics suite that dominates the instrument panel. First introduced in 2005, this all-glass cockpit revolutionized the flying experience for pilots by providing a comprehensive and intuitive interface.

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Knot Cockpit Pilot Gross Weight 98

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Before the aircraft begins to move, on the left-hand ( port ) side of the aircraft you may also notice the ground crew waving a thin red flag at the captain (who always sits, aviation convention dictates, in the left-hand seat in the cockpit of fixed-wing aircraft).

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Cabin Crew Runway Clearance Knot 269

Professional Pilot

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The system is well-suited for aircraft of any size, and offers low power consumption and reduced drag from its low-profile antenna. Honeywell’s Aspire 400 satellite communications system offers high-speed voice and data for cockpits and cabins in a compact, lightweight package.

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Jet Tail Drag Cockpit 94

Air Facts

JULY 22, 2024

The Four Forces of Flight (Lift, Thrust, Drag & Gravity) obey Newton’s Three Laws of Motion. Her father had been allowed to sit in the back seat on the last day and violated the sterile cockpit rule. STEM was the main course. Like Moses and the Ten Commandments, aviation is limited by 10 laws of physics and chemistry.

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Lift Knot Airfoil Airplanes 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The aircraft also featured a pressurized cockpit, and considerations were made for it to be armed with six 20mm cannons or six 12.7mm machine guns.Consolidated-Vultee submitted the design of the Model 102 to the US Army Air Force’s Air Material Command in September 1943, and the Model 102 was approved for further development as the XP-81.

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Thrust Tail Jet Drag 52

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Most Crucial Aircraft Components, From the Flight Crew to the Cockpit, Are in the Fuselage The body of an airplane is known as the fuselage. Pilots navigate the airplane forward in glass cockpits, which are located just over the aircraft’s nose. This long, metal tube connects all the main components of an airplane.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Ingenious Cooling System The Ki-64 was single-seat aircraft and had a taildragger configuration consisting of two Ha-40 inverted V-12 engines mounted in front of and behind the cockpit connected by a driveshaft. As mentioned earlier, the engine sections each had their own evaporative cooling systems.

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Drag Pilot Cockpit 98

Fear of Landing

JULY 19, 2024

From the video, it seems that the pilot kept the landing gear stowed, which I presume was in order to reduce drag. Watching the shadow of the aircraft growing bigger over the airport buildings was the most stressful thing I’ve done all day; I can’t imagine being in that cockpit.

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Runway Pilot Approach Drag 96

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Can we simplify life by only talking about things that are actually displayed in the cockpit? And in a plane, aerodynamic drag will keep it from going any faster. So what do we do with energy management? Even better, can we just use the underlying ideas and ignore this abstract term?

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Airplanes Descent Pilot Altimeter 95

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 25, 2024

In the end, it was someone from their own team who managed the impossible and led the installation of new radios and a Garmin glass cockpit in just 5 days! The distinctive Douglas Commercial nose is shown to great effect in this shot of Aero Legends’ Drag Em Oot. Air Force.

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Airplanes Weather Drag Pilot 105

Fear of Landing

MARCH 22, 2024

Glass Cockpit During the 1970s and 1980s, NASA created and tested the concept of an advanced cockpit configuration that replaced dial and gauge instruments with flat panel digital displays. Glass cockpits are in use on commercial, military, and general aviation aircraft, and on NASA’s space shuttle fleet.

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Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

During the conversation with the controller, there was the sound of a single chime on the cockpit voice recorder. This signifies a significant increase in drag which is causing the airspeed to drop by 15 to 20 knots. On the cockpit voice recorder are the sounds of vibration and the stall warning siren.

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Knot Approach Descent Weather 98

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 27, 2024

The common cockpit design allows pilots to transition between different Airbus aircraft with minimal additional training, enhancing operational flexibility. One of the standout features is its unique wing design with a high aspect ratio, which allows for improved lift and reduced drag, ensuring smoother and more efficient flights.

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Ceiling Drag Wide-Body Aircraft Lift 96

Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

In the CRJ you can not hear any engines from the cockpit, making for an odd audio sensation. As is often the case with swept-wing jets, sometimes extra drag is required beyond gear and flaps. You must look at your power settings only. Live weather in XP12 has a defect where it rains all the time, regardless of actual METAR.

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Crosswind Weather Knot Aileron 105

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

And ice doesn’t just make things slippery, it messes with the airflow over the wings, cuts down on lift, and ramps up drag. This leads to a serious loss of lift and an increase in drag. This roughness adds to friction drag, which can reduce lift and increase drag by as much as 50% on a wing’s leading edge and upper surface.

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Pitot Tube Drag Lift Airfoil 52

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I move to the cockpit in search of a warmer spot and share some of the pilots’ candy. I’ll walk home if I have to, after that,” I hear someone say from the cockpit. He is beaming as he exits the cockpit. On one occasion over France there was also me, wearing a harness and hooked in next to the cockpit. Air Force C-130.

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Airplanes Pilot Cockpit Tail 98

Air Facts

JANUARY 13, 2025

Cirrus has long been a leader in this category, essentially making glass cockpits the default in piston airplanes over 20 years ago, but they continued to add useful updates like terrain warning systems, digital engine monitors, and advanced autopilots through the years. Now youve moved from smart preparation to moral hazard.

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Pilot 98

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The pilot is able to control the aircrafts roll by turning the control yoke or sidestick in the cockpit. The problem is that the aileron can only be deflected to a point after which the drag becomes significant. Adverse yaw is created due to the drag differential between the two sides of the aircraft.

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Aileron Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Longitudinal Axis 90

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

“Before the Parks was completely disassembled for restoration, I enjoyed reading passages from some of these books while sitting in the aft cockpit. It made its way to Lumberton lawyer Evander Munn Britt Jr., who in 1964 traded it to Richard Bach for the latter’s recently-rebuilt, “modern” 1946 Fairchild F-24.

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Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

Air Facts

JULY 1, 2024

After all the preliminaries, and in full command of the cockpit, we, my instructor and I, took off on a simulated flight from Teterboro, New Jersey enroute to Norfolk, Virginia (short flight) at 15,000 feet. I put the gear down one dot above the glideslope and let the drag bring the aircraft down at its 550 foot-per-minute descent rate.

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Knot Approach Pilot Runway 97

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 7, 2025

Originally used as a trainer in World War II, the Stearman features a tandem, open cockpit with forgiving, yet challenging flight characteristics. Top that off with modern avionics, a roomy, comfortable cockpit, and its overall charm, Carbon Cubs are built for comfort and adventure. Whats not to love?

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Airplanes Tail Pilot Jet 98

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 29, 2024

All cockpit gauges confirmed critical systems were humming and happy. It felt like we were dragging an 18-wheeler truck! Functioning exactly as designed, those flat-plate boards sticking into the airstream were creating beaucoup drag, battling against the J-79s’ thrust. What the….? Had we been hit? Firing missiles!”

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Drag Thrust Pilot Rudder 52

Pilot's Life Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Ground school provides the theoretical knowledge needed to understand aviation principles, which youll later apply in the cockpit. Aerodynamics and Flight Theory : Youll learn the basic principles behind flight, including the four forces: lift, thrust, drag, and weight. What Pilot Ground School Entails So, what is pilot ground school

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Pilot Air Traffic Control Weather Flight Plan 52

Aerotime

MARCH 27, 2025

Inside the aircraft were two rocket propellant tanks, twelve nitrogen spheres for fuel and cabin pressurization, the pilots pressurized cockpit, three pressure regulators, a retractable landing gear, the wing spar structure, a 6.000-pound-thrust rocket engine, and more than five hundred pounds of special flight-test instrumentation.

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Pilot Airplanes Drag Stability 275

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Managing the angle of attack matters because it directly influences lift generation and drag in all phases of flight. Different wings offer a different lift-to-drag ratio. Maintain your best glide speed, representing the optimum between lift and drag. How Can Managing AOA Improve Your Flight? However, size isnt everything.

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Lift Turbulence Drag Pilot 52

Ask the Pilot

MARCH 13, 2025

What drags this one down is the back of the fuselage: the design is tail-heavy. That’s not a bad thing, by itself, and we dig the raccoon-style shading around the cockpit. Not a cheap LCC vibe, like you feel with Spirit or Southwest, but a more sleek and sophisticated one. The colors are part of this. Behold their livery here.

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Tail Airline Airlines Runway 99