Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 30, 2025

A short 18 months later, on August 13, 1937, the XPB2Y-1 took to the skies for the first time, revealing plenty of room for improvement lateral instability was a major problem for the deep-hulled boat, so the single tail fin was augmented by two smaller fins on the horizontal stabilizers. Note the radome above the cockpit.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Final Approach Tail Runway 111

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2024

(image via AirCorps Aviation) Over the past few months, most of the work on the AT-10 involved the cockpit section, the main fuselage, and the vertical fin. Indeed a major milestone saw the cockpit section mounted to the main fuselage! image via AirCorps Aviation) The cockpit section as it looked following painting prep.

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Rudder Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer Stability 111

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

He also rebuilt the turtle deck behind the pilot’s headrest for the open cockpit, and test fitted the tubular frame for the empennage before permanently reattaching the tail surfaces back to the fuselage and applied fabric to the frame of the horizontal stabilizers, while aluminum sheets were riveted to the frame of the vertical stabilizer, just as (..)

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Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Airplanes 111

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. All of these primary control surfaces serve as a horizontal stabilizer for the plane.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 21, 2025

” Photo- Don “Bucky” Dawson As Eldridge stood up on the seat to bail out, his left foot got stuck in the cockpit. As he recalled with AOPA: “I remember pushing down on the side rails of the cockpit with everything I had and I couldn’t get out. Then, finally, I broke loose and just flopped over the side.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Cockpit Torque Airplanes 98

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

However, if you take a close look at the inboard upper wing surface of the B-52, you will see a neat row of vortex generators that correspond to the width of the horizontal stabilizer. These were added to manage the low speed air flow over the wings, stabilizer and elevators.

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Airplanes Approach Horizontal Stabilizer Pilot 85

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Seeking to merge this breakthrough with a new design, he worked with Raymond Saulnier, co-founder of Morane-Saulnier, on a new design that became the Blriot XI, a tractor-configuration monoplane with a partially covered wooden box-girder fuselage with wire cross-bracing and a sparse open cockpit.

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Airplanes Horizontal Stabilizer Rudder Stability 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It most commonly forms on the leading edges of your aircraft, including the wings, tail, and horizontal stabilizer, as well as on the propeller blades and pitot tubes. Well, while frost isn’t as dangerous as clear ice, it can still block your view through the cockpit window. But how dangerous is it?

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Pitot Tube Drag Lift Airfoil 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Photo by Colin Hunter] “Mostly XR987 had been rewired with new electrical cabling and upgraded cockpit instruments to a slightly more modern standard. ” ZK-RAJ after having its overhauled horizontal stabilizers reinstalled in late September 2024. ” XR987 on display at Classic Flyers NZ in February 2021.

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Jet Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes 105

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 6, 2024

Like many aircraft of its day, the O3U Corsair was of tubular steel construction for the fuselage and tail stabilizers and the wings were made of wood, and all covered in fabric. The horizontal stabilizer and elevators of the O3U-3 were built over full scale Vought drawings.

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Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Tail 98

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Using the new Bonanza as a basis for this design, there was some talk of adding the Bonanza’s V-tail on the aircraft before that was abandoned in favor of a more conventional vertical and horizontal stabilizer design. The result was the Model 45, the aircraft that would become the T-34 Mentor.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Jet Pilot Stability 98

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Using the new Bonanza as a basis for this design, there was some talk of adding the Bonanza’s V-tail on the aircraft before that was abandoned in favor of a more conventional vertical and horizontal stabilizer design. The result was the Model 45, the aircraft that would become the T-34 Mentor.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Jet Pilot Stability 98

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The tail section, minus horizontal stabilizer, came from a crashed TF-104G that was found in an Ontario, California junkyard. The horizontal stabilizer came from a wrecked F-104G. The cockpit side panels came from the first production F-104A that crashed in 1956.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Stability 124

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The final product was an aircraft with an armament that consisted of five 30-caliber machine guns with a payload of up to 4,800 pounds, these being mounted on two racks in the bomb behind the cockpit. The durable airframe and the heavy defensive armament earned the aircraft a nickname: Flying Fortress.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Payload Ceiling 105

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

From the pilot’s seat it cruises near effortlessly and handles nimbly on land or water with a great combination of stability and modest control pressures. Just recognizable in the background is a horizontal stabilizer and one-piece elevator. Certainly it’s not a “no go” item if it doesn’t go down for water ops.

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 80

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The previous CTs had a stabilator for pitch, where the new F2 uses a more conventional elevator and fixed horizontal stabilizer. With the F2, the rudder and vertical stabilizer are changed, with the rudder becoming a much smaller surface than before. Out back, theres an entirely new tail.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

Aerotime

JANUARY 15, 2025

The upper deck houses the communications center and cockpit, while the 4,000 square feet of floor space on the main deck is configured for presidential duties. With interiors designed by First Lady Nancy Regan, the 747s are created to be like a flying White House, with huge amounts of space for meetings, conferences, and working.

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Cargo Ferry Flight Tail Horizontal Stabilizer 269

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Libeccio was of mixed construction, featuring a metal monocoque cockpit section attached to a welded steel tube fuselage frame covered in doped fabric, with wooden bars and panels on its top and bottom. 310 which featured a “stepless” plexiglass cockpit and two 700 hp Piaggio Stella P.XVI RC-35 radial engines.

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Aileron Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Cockpit 122