Professional Pilot

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

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Jet 94

Jet Tail Drag Cockpit 94

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In that configuration, it didnt depart the airplane but, instead, blocked airflow to the tail, with fatal results. In my glass-cockpit airplane, on an instrument approach, there are a number of things to be set and to look out for. With a do list, if it gets lost in the cockpit or is missing from the airplane, you cant fly.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Aileron 96

Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The following is CCTV video of the crash as posted on X : New surveillance video captures the moment a Delta Airlines jet crashed at Toronto Pearson International Airport, with 75 passengers on board leaving 18 injured. The wing tip struck the runway after which the wing and the tail separated and the fuel from the wing caught fire.

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Runway Tail Knot Altimeter 59

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 14, 2025

Convair designed several concepts for water-based jet aircraft, including a swept wing concept known as Projct Skate, but apart from a few scale models, these never left the drawing board. Charles Richbourg in the cockpit of the Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart.

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Cockpit Flight Deck Drag Stability 98

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Though the fabric on the wings would be recovered in 1952, the structure of the wings, tail, and rudder remained original to 1910. One of the rarest aircraft in the museum is an example of the first American jet aircraft, the Bell P-59 Airacomet.

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Airplanes Jet Pilot Weather 105

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This was one of the few aircraft that combined both a piston engine and a jet engine in the same airframe. Yet although it was designed to combat the limitations of early jet propulsion, it would be quickly superseded by new pure-jet aircraft and became one of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation’s last fixed wing designs to be built.

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Tail Jet Ceiling Pilot 93

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 18, 2025

A sheet of cardboard or some blankets wedged into the gap to make it seem like the jet is attached to the walkway is all it took to remedy his situation. In a light aircraft, though, special needs can take on a different meaning when you consider every passenger is within reach of the cockpit controls.

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Runway Airplanes Flight Deck Pilot 74

One Mile at a Time

AUGUST 24, 2024

One method is to look at the cockpit windows. The 737 has six cockpit windows (which is standard), and the window at the far end on each side “slopes up” at the bottom, so the window doesn’t go as far down as on other jets. The 787 is the only wide body jet to have four cockpit windows, rather than six.

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Airplanes Cockpit Jet Tail 120

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

However, in an aviation sector still recovering from the devastation of WWII and becoming the scene for the rise of jet aircraft, the Deux-Ponts became one of the rarest planes in the world when it was active. This aircraft was among the first large aircraft built in France following the Second World War.

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Tail Cargo Stability Payload 66

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 15, 2024

A few feet behind him, Captain Gerald Dobberfuhl, an experienced reconnaissance officer, settled into the rear cockpit of their camera-equipped RF-4C Phantom fighter. Dick rolled into a steep right bank and pulled his jet around the shoulder of a mountain, expecting to surprise ground troops. Could the jet explode at any second? “My

Cockpit 98

Cockpit Tail Approach Pilot 98

Fear of Landing

JULY 12, 2024

Or maybe you are in a fighter-jet themed escape room and you have to correctly identify miniature models of warbirds or you will be stuck listening to Danger Zone on repeat forever. In this case, you should wait for the jet to pass you and take a look at the exhausts. F-16 cockpit with side stick on the right.

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Cockpit Tail Jet Pilot 88

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Intended to be a long-range escort fighter, the Consolidated XP-81 also represented a departure from conventional aircraft, but the rapidly evolving nature of both the Second World War and jet engines would see the XP-81 becoming nothing more than a footnote in American aviation history.

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Thrust Tail Jet Drag 52

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. The tail was the most distinctive part of the Connie’s design. Cockpit of the Lockheed Constellation. Navy PO-1W Warning Star early warning radar aircraft.

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Tail Stability Pilot Hangar 116

Ask the Pilot

MARCH 13, 2025

I don’t which part irks me more: the boring typeface, the blank bottom, or the tail emblem, which is a neutered version of the one it replaces. Then we have the tail. GRADE: D-minus MINTY FRESH JetBlues livery features a grab bag of different tail patterns. Where do we start? Do we have any idea what this means?

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Tail Airlines Airline Runway 99

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Navy primary flight training—the instructor had it coming Air Facts Journal Second Lieutenant Arnold Reiner Marine Corps recruitment brochures in the early ’60s described three pilot training pipelines: jets, transports and helicopters. We could practice in a cockpit procedures trainer next to the briefing area.

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 19, 2024

Using Vought drawings, some of the tail wheel struts were manufactured in-house in our machine shop, for the funding was not available to purchase the exceedingly difficult-to-find components. We utilized Vought drawings and in some cases where they were non-existent, reverse engineer, a term not unknown to the Restoration community.

Tail 119

Tail Firewall Approach Flight Deck 119

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 12, 2025

The tail came up as it gathered speed, throwing up a cataract of red-brown mud. “They seemed to rise from the sea and hang outside my cockpit window, near enough to touch, until hours later they slipped away into the dawn.” The Wasp engine roared as mud sloshed under the wheels of the crimson red Vega.

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Airplanes Tail Pilot Cockpit 52

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. Well, like a lot of the early jets, its fast.

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Airplanes Tail Pilot Jet 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

It was also the first VTOL aircraft to use a jet thrust diverter system for vertical lift. 1127 Kestrel, the aircraft that was to be the basis for the Harrier jet-jump fighter-bomber flown by the Royal Navy and the United States Marine Corps. Bell X-14 in its original configuration as USAF s/n 56-4022 hovering during a test flight.

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Thrust Center of Gravity Descent Cockpit 94

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

APRIL 29, 2024

The plane kept wanting to roll right, so I hard to start the jet and get it up to 100% on that side to keep it from rolling over. He went to the back of the aircraft, and as I was about ready to give the signal to jump, he wandered back to the cockpit looking for his tack vest. It was my co-pilot back in the cockpit again.

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Cargo Cockpit Airplanes Pilot 116

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 6, 2025

The production model P-67 was also intended to be fitted with a pressurized cockpit, a novel concept for WWII fighters, and with an armament of six 37mm M4 cannons installed in the wings inboard of the engines, but these were not installed on the prototype. US Air Force photo) On 23 March 1944, flight trials resumed at Lambert Field in St.

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Gross Weight Cockpit Pilot Airplanes 98

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Flying in clouds of cold and warm fronts can lead to very small supercooled water droplets which build up as rime ice on the parts of the aircraft exposed to the wind: probes, antennas, and the leading edges of the wings and tail. During the conversation with the controller, there was the sound of a single chime on the cockpit voice recorder.

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Knot Approach Descent Weather 98

Fear of Landing

JUNE 7, 2024

In the cockpit were three flight crew: two pilots and a flight engineer. But the tail and the left wing were found even further away, four to six miles from the main wreckage. When the first responders opened the cockpit, they found the fatally injured flight crew still in their seats with smashed smoke masks.

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Cabin Crew Weather Turbulence Descent 102

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

Though it’s not as overtly revolutionary as the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) or Safe Return enabled by Garmin Autoland on Cirrus’ SF50 Vision Jet, the reimagined flight deck in the new SR G7 and other improvements make a more immediate impact—because pilots benefit from them on every flight, from the moment you press the start button.

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Pilot Airplanes Approach Jet 111

Fear of Landing

MARCH 22, 2024

TURBO-AE Code During the 1990s, NASA developed a computer code that generates two-dimensional simulations of potential aeroelastic (AE) problems that can occur in jet engine blades. Glass cockpits are in use on commercial, military, and general aviation aircraft, and on NASA’s space shuttle fleet.

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Wind Shear Airfoil Drag Airlines 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As reported by Vintage Aviation News earlier this year, Folland Gnat XR987 — now with the New Zealand civil registration ZK-RAJ, for “Red Arrows Jet” — is being returned to airworthiness at the workshops of Aero Restoration (Aero R) south of Auckland in the North Island for owner Matt Wilcock. to put it mildly!”

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Jet Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes 105

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 14, 2024

Over the years, the plane became a local legend, with kids getting to play inside the cockpit, and many local teenagers made their first paychecks filling gas under the wings of the old bomber. However, the work on the cockpit section was halted due to a lack of funds, and in 2000, Art Lacey passed away.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Runway 119

Professional Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

In 2024 alone, Lilium declared 2 of its subsidiaries insolvent and faced shuttering the business completely until a last-moment promise of investment allowed it to continue work on a factory for its eVTOL electric jet. The Hill Digital Cockpit is a thing of simplicity and beauty. A pusher prop on the fuselage propels the craft forward.

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Lift Payload Cargo Pilot 68

Ask the Pilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

There they were, leisurely mulling the finer points of their merger with Hawaiian, wondering which visage to paint on the tail, when the 737 MAX-9 stole the show. Pop went a fuselage plug on flight 1282, decompressing the jet and scaring the daylights out of everyone on board. January 8, 2024 POOR ALASKA Airlines.

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Descent Air Traffic Control Tail Pilot 52

Aerotime

MARCH 27, 2025

Following D-Day, as the war began to tail off, Yeager returned to fly combat missions, as Eisenhower yielded to Yaeger’s demands. One notable shootdown accredited to Yeager was one of historys very first air-to-air victories against a jet-powered fighter aircraft. Eisenhower himself.

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Pilot Drag Airplanes Stability 275

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 26, 2024

I guess it’s no surprise that the airline is starting to phase out these jets. Kuwait Airways map feature A330 Kuwait Airways map feature A330 While there’s also a nose camera, that’s not nearly as exciting as a tail camera, especially when it’s not high definition. It was totally standard and not particularly spacious.

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Approach Descent Airlines Airline 117

Ask the Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

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. For more about slats, flaps, and the other doodads than help a plane fly, see chapter one of Cockpit Confidential.

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Stability Lift Runway Tail 52

One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Several weeks ago, we saw a bizarre incident in Atlanta, whereby one aircraft collided with another, and sliced off its tail. It involves two jets operating on behalf of Delta, which had a serious incident at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL). ATC: “You know, I just noticed that the tail on the RJ is missing.

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Tail Jet Clearance Runway 123

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Each had conventional straight wings and tails, with power coming from an Allison J35-A-11 turbojet engine producing some 5,000lbs of thrust. However, the jet-powered Skystreak could fly for sustained periods at transonic speeds, increasing the amount of data a single flight could yield.

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Pilot Thrust Hangar Tail 52

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 29, 2024

With ECM pods beeping and squeaking, our semi-spread formation of four jets created an indistinct blob of noise on enemy radars. MiGs on your tail! All cockpit gauges confirmed critical systems were humming and happy. Four o’clock!” Break right! Break left! What the….? Had we been hit?

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Drag Thrust Pilot Rudder 52

Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

After we decided this, we heard a Challenger jet announce “Taxiing to 26 for takeoff”. It’s worth noting that Shmulik had a close call in the past: a jet pulled onto the runway in front of him with no radio call. This near miss was avoided only by the jet taking off immediately in front of him. He tried again, with no reply.

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Pilot AGL Wind Shear Runway 52