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Washington plane crash: critical data rests inside submerged Black Hawk wreckage

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Parts that have been salvaged in the last 48 hours include the right wing, center fuselage, part of the left wing and left fuselage, significant portions of the forward cabin and cockpit, vertical and horizontal stabilizers, tail cone, rudder, elevators, TCAS computer and quick access recorder.

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Alaska Airlines Flight 261: Investigating what caused the tragedy

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The two thumps that signalled the beginning of the end of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 At 16:08, the cockpit voice recorder heard Captain Thompson saying, “I’m going to click it off. This tail was made up of a vertical stabilizer with a rudder, to control yaw, and a horizontal stabilizer to control pitch. You got it?

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Lufthansa Technik rolls out fully renovated 1957 Lockheed Starliner in Hamburg

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Lufthansa Technik The restoration includes fully functioning lighting and flight controls, with steel cables connecting to fully movable rudders and flaps. Additionally, the cockpit has been meticulously recreated to appear as it did when the aircraft was first delivered in 1957.

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World’s Oldest Flying Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina Restoration Continues

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Note the red and white rudder stripes that were authorized for barely four months. Behind the cockpit lies the radio operators station, an essential role for communications and monitoring potential enemy transmissions during maritime patrol missions. In the cockpit, a unique instrument has been installed: the Mark 28 Torpedo Director.

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AirCorps Aviation’s Piper L-4H Grasshopper – Winter 2025 Update

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image via AirCorps Aviation) The front seat frame, rudder pedals, and the tube connecting the front and rear control sticks are visible in this image. image via AirCorps Aviation) Control Linkages The restoration team recently installed the control cable linkages to the rudder and elevator, throttle controls, and fuel valve linkages.

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Rebirth of FG-1D Corsair 92460

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The cockpit in 2015. The production required some Corsair cockpit parts for the creation of a studio mock-up to shoot the actors in the cockpit “flying” the aircraft in front of a projection screen. The newly painted rudder and horizontals now re-installed on 92460. Enter two angels; Jack and Jo Brinkerhoff.

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Understanding Left-Turning Tendencies in Airplanes

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By Josh Page, CFI Ever heard your flight instructor say, More right rudder? If uncorrected, it can cause a yawing movement to the left, requiring the pilot to use right rudder to maintain coordinated control. By now you should be able to answer this quickly Applying right rudder! How do you counter this left turning tendency?