Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Storo lifted the British fighter into the air for the first time on June 28, 2022, from Tillamook Municipal Airport near his home. “Sitting so high up and trying to look down inside the cockpit for the airspeed is nearly impossible. At that point, you’re simply looking down the runway, and then it lifts off.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The duct, as predicted by Stipa, had a profile similar to that of the airfoil, with a fairly small rudder and elevators mounted on the trailing edge of the duct. Additionally, the aircraft had low, fixed, spatted main landing gear and a tailwheel with twin open cockpits. The Stipa-Caproni in flight. II Editore F.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

This can cause you to lose lift. So when you’re in the cockpit, you’ll know exactly what to do. Remember Bernoulli’s Theorem and how lift is created. The loss of lift causes the aircraft to stall and lose altitude. Without a quick reaction, it can lead to a dangerous situation. Why Practice Power-off Stalls?

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Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 30, 2025

[Courtesy: Sporty’s Pilot Shop] A nice touch is to include a good starter set of hardware like a quality yoke or joystick, rudder pedals, and throttle quadrant, allowing your aviator to replicate many of the complexities of real flight in the comfort of their home. The Lift Pro 2.0 A couple of beginners mistakes to avoid.

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Pilot Cockpit Weather Lift 89

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Key Takeaways Ailerons control the aircrafts roll by adjusting lift on each wing. Adverse yaw is a side effect of aileron use, countered by rudder input. The pilot is able to control the aircrafts roll by turning the control yoke or sidestick in the cockpit. The aircrafts wing is able to generate lift due to its shape.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

With one hand I lifted the back high enough to pull the stick back far enough to stop my dive. I lifted the seat back into place and saw there was a latch to hold it. The dirt and gravel on the floor and the contents of the ashtray were now making their way to the top of the cockpit. Then, suddenly, it stopped.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The J-4’s cockpit is wider than the more common J-3, and the second generation brought about the replacement of the open cowl with exposed exhaust ports with a fully enclosed cowl. I watched the stick flutter to and fro in sync with the rudder pedals as Wilkins fought to maintain the centerline, all the while pushing in the throttle.

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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. You’ll find a horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer, elevator, and rudder pedals here.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 19, 2024

Photo by Joel Edwards] When A&T commenced the recovery, divers placed inflatable lift bags at strategic points on the two sections to raise them to just below the surface, thus preventing damage during the twelve hours it took to tow the wreckage to the local marina. We had to do some welding on that. They were also in good shape.

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Pilot Institute

JANUARY 8, 2025

Stalls Cause a Loss of Lift A stall is not related to engine failure. This misunderstanding can lead to confusion and, in some cases, accidents, as some pilots concentrate on engine performance instead of addressing the actual problem, a loss of lift. Now, the wings have to produce more lift to support this weight.

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Lift Accelerated Stall Pilot AGL 98

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

CDT, a Beech Baron lifted off from Runway 35 at Lubbock Executive Airpark in Texas (F82). It looks normal as the plane lifts off and starts to climb, but then a witness hears a change in the sound of the engines. on march 17, 2023, at 11:37 a.m. By 11:40 a.m. The same FBO security camera captures the Baron’s takeoff.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 5, 2024

Local forklift hire was kindly arranged by AEM Lifting from Tuxford, Notts. During a subsequent two-day time period the MBCC staff reassembled the Prone Meteor, before moving into Hangar 2 on NAM’s Southfield Site.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

To get the extra lift required for the turns, I had to dive to get extra airspeed so that the plane could turn at that same AOA. One more gadget in the cockpit cannot remedy deficits in skill, judgement, and attitude. And some made it as high as 100 feet but were still consistent with the spirit of FASF.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

CDT, a Beech Baron lifted off from Runway 35 at Lubbock Executive Airpark in Texas (F82). It looks normal as the plane lifts off and starts to climb, but then a witness hears a change in the sound of the engines. on march 17, 2023, at 11:37 a.m. By 11:40 a.m. The same FBO security camera captures the Baron’s takeoff.

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Airspeed Junkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The two broad wings will then create lift. However, rear fins stabilize the aircraft, and rudders allow the jet to turn. Inside Cockpit The F/A-18 fighter jet has advanced gadgetry inside the cockpit. Under the Hood Hornets perform and operate like other jet planes. They have powerful turbine engines that create thrust.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Adapted from a surplus Nieuport 23 fighter fuselage and configured as a triplane, the helicopter featured two main rotors primarily responsible for lift. Forward flight was stabilized by a conventional rudder and elevator arrangement. A 220 horsepower radial engine provided power. A rotor on the tail controlled pitch.

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Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 18, 2025

[Dean Coryell photo via Randy Malmstrom] After the lifting of the arms embargo in 1952, a Rolls-Royce Merlin 500-45 engine running a 4-blade propeller was introduced for the Buchn. This view of the cockpit was captured in 2016 during the Allison rebuild and shows some work still to be completed.

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Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

There were some patches of moderate lift and sink as would be expected on a normal summer soaring day. Sometimes you fly through virga and you can even find yourself in lift. How Does It Feel in the Cockpit When We Encounter A Microburst? I immediately pushed in the spoilers, hit hard right rudder, and hard right stick.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The airfoil is a Harry Riblett shape, giving modernized flow separation on the leading edge for a soft stall yet with good lift and drag performance. An elegantly simple rope system inside the fuselage raises and lowers the Gweduck’s water rudder mounted inside the base of the main rudder (right).

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Cockpit Layout and Avionics The cockpit of the Piper Seminole is designed for ease of use and accessibility, with flight instruments arranged for quick scanning. Approach speeds typically range from 80 to 90 knots depending on weight and flap settings, while full flaps are often used to provide the necessary lift during landing.

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