Aerotime

MARCH 21, 2025

Touchdown The TSB explained that as the Delta Connections flight reached touchdown the side-stay attached to the right MLG fractured, the landing gear folded into the retracted position, the wing root fractured between the fuselage and the landing gear, and the wing detached from the fuselage, releasing a cloud of jet fuel, which caught fire.

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Indicated Airspeed Descent Knot Horizontal Stabilizer 298

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 95

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

APRIL 18, 2025

One of the standout aircraft in Drydens research history is the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, a legendary Navy fighter jet that played a key role in two major research programs at the center. This photo shows NASA’s F-14 (NASA tail number 991; Navy serial number 157991) flying over Rogers Dry Lake, accompanied by a Navy F-14.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Tail Airfoil 52

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

OCTOBER 18, 2024

“Sitting so high up and trying to look down inside the cockpit for the airspeed is nearly impossible. What you do is you sit up high for takeoff and as you add power and the tail comes up almost immediately, very quickly. After a year of recovery, Rogan was back in the cockpit and was judged fit to fly combat.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

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

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Cockpit Tail Approach Pilot 98

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 81

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

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 72

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 14, 2025

jet ace, Lebanese-American Major James Jabara). In contrast to other aircraft on display in the Smithsonian, the nose section of this Hornet will be available for visitors to touch and to see the cockpit of a modern strike fighter. 1:100 scale model of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) at the National Air and Space Museum.

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Hangar Stability Tail Aviation Technology 92

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.

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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

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

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 104

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

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 76

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

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

THE RED AND WHITE JET WENT BY WITHOUT A SOUND. The tail section, minus horizontal stabilizer, came from a crashed TF-104G that was found in an Ontario, California junkyard. The cockpit side panels came from the first production F-104A that crashed in 1956. It could not be made official because of a failed FAI camera. IMPOSSIBLE.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Thrust 124

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 103

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 Tail 117

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

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

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The pilot is able to control the aircrafts roll by turning the control yoke or sidestick in the cockpit. Most of the ailerons mass lies behind the hinge, making it tail-heavy. Tail-heavy ailerons droop downwards when they arent being pulled by the control system. potentially reverting the aileron back into a tail-heavy state.

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Aileron Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Longitudinal Axis 90

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 26, 2025

On this day in aviation history, January 26, 1945, the McDonnell FH Phantom, the first pure-jet aircraft developed for the United States Navy, made its first flight. The US Navy had gained its first experience in jet aviation with the Bell YF2L, two Army Air Force YP-59A Airacomets delivered for naval flight evaluation.

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Jet Cockpit Flight Deck Tail 81

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 5, 2025

Among the wreckage pulled up from the depths was a cockpit video recorder. It was the tail separating from the fuselage. Extreme aerodynamic stresses of the out-of-control descent eventually caused the tail to separate. NTSB review of cockpit video showed the MFD wasnt working on the last four flights.

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Clearance Pilot Cockpit Descent 97

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

There are a number of tail strike incidents caused by the take-off weight being logged as lower than it actually was. The description of the event clearly represents what was understood at the time: During the takeoff from RWY35L, the aircraft suffered a tail strike after the rotation. This transition of lifting off is called rotation.

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Tail V Speed Knot Runway 97

Aerotime

JUNE 7, 2024

The first operational F-15EX Eagle II fighter jet landed at the Portland Air National Guard Base, Oregon, on June 5, 2024. Tails painted — all dressed up for delivery. Thus, the 142nd Wing of the Oregon Air National Guard stationed in Portland has become the first operational unit in the US Air Force to field the new aircraft.

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Jet Tail Payload Cockpit 245

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

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 95

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 96

Aerotime

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Boeing 747 is an icon of the jet age, a giant aircraft that democratized air travel for the masses and shrank the world throughout the latter 20th century. Sporting tail numbers 28000 and 29000, the VC-25As have been transporting heads of state for the US since 1987. In commercial service, it flew more than 2.5

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Cargo Ferry Flight Tail Horizontal Stabilizer 278

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. One of the first of these was the Model 73 Jet Mentor. The Beechcraft Model 73 Jet Mentor in flight.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Jet Pilot Stability 98