Plane and Pilot

JULY 9, 2024

The unique H-tail reduces the left-turning tendencies during takeoff while also minimizing the weathervaning effect prevalent in crosswinds. While the original Ercoupes lacked a rudder and rudder pedals entirely, this example has had them installed as an aftermarket kit, making the airplane a bit more familiar for newcomers to fly.

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Rudder Airplanes Crosswind Tail 87

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It was a beefed up, militarized version of the Beechcraft Bonanza with a narrowed fuselage and conventional tail, seating two pilots in tandem cockpits with controls and indicators configured similarly to tactical aircraft of the period. 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

JANUARY 29, 2025

Cockpit of the Hughes H-1 Racer on display at the National Air and Space Museum (National Air and Space Museum) Among the most valuable reference photos have been those of the H-1’s cockpit. The rudder and elevators have their fabric doped, but the elevators have not been painted yet.

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Cockpit Firewall Aileron Rudder 116

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 5, 2025

Sage’s second design, the Type 2, a small two-seat fighter, where a pilot and rear gunner were kept in an enclosed cockpit, was built and flight tested. Subsequent flight testing showed that the aircraft proved to be overweight and slow, even for a WWI-era trainer.

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Weight-Shift-Control Tail Airplanes Rudder 98

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 10, 2025

In March 2013 the cockpit area had been stripped and cleaned and the old glazing removed, the wings were being worked on with a skin removed, cleaning up, corrosion removal and treating and then repainting. Some of the systems were starting to be put in place and in the cockpit the rudder pedals and control columns were installed.

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Cockpit Hangar Pilot Rudder 111

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 17, 2024

According to Russ, the whole process had gone so smoothly that the decision was made to continue to the nacelles and tail booms to finish what was completed on the aircraft. From there, volunteers are continuing their work on the fuel tanks and building the aircraft’s rudders. Two hours later the fuselage painting was complete.

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Hangar 105

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

JULY 19, 2024

The rudder and elevators both had some internal work done to the ribs prior to re-covering the surfaces, but not much. 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. The yoke is original.

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Tail Firewall Approach Flight Deck 119

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Flight controls mean ailerons, elevator, and rudder, of course, but on some airplanes, if the trim is mis-set, the plane might be difficult or impossible to control. In that configuration, it didnt depart the airplane but, instead, blocked airflow to the tail, with fatal results. But there are variations from plane to plane.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Aileron 92

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cockpit and Avionics Sitting in the cockpit of a Cessna 172, one is immediately struck by the advanced Garmin G1000 NXi avionics suite that dominates the instrument panel. First introduced in 2005, this all-glass cockpit revolutionized the flying experience for pilots by providing a comprehensive and intuitive interface.

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Knot Cockpit Pilot Gross Weight 98

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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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In addition, the chargers were too bulky to bring along in the cockpit. In thermals the V3M is even easier and more stable than the V2 (which requires more rudder to remain coordinated). A lifting aid is required to mount and remove the tail dolly which is a bit of a nuisance. Self-launch from high altitude airports.

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Density Altitude Cockpit Tail Runway 98

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Right after takeoff, you throw a grappling hook at the end of a short rope out of the cockpit. Its connected, along with a safety weak link, to the tail of the airplane. Its not button pushing but rather intuitive rudder coordination. Its cool flying. This kind of flying is very much done by touch.

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Drag Airplanes Pilot Rudder 72

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

Photo copyright Russell Munson] On April 26th, 1964 a radial-powered biplane with wings and tail in Champion Yellow and Stearman Vermillion-painted fuselage took off from an airfield near Lumberton, NC. “The steel fuselage frame, tail surfaces, and landing gear have been repaired as needed, media blasted, and primed.

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Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 7, 2025

She flew like a big, lumbering Cub of sorts, complete with a wooden rudder bar, tall wooden stick, and instruments that seemed like they were straight out of World War One. Originally used as a trainer in World War II, the Stearman features a tandem, open cockpit with forgiving, yet challenging flight characteristics.

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Airplanes Tail Pilot Jet 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

(Nigel Hitchman) The story of the Breguet Deux-Ponts begins even before WWII, when Breguet Aviation began design work on the concept for a large four engine transport with two decks for passengers called the Breguet 760, which was based on the wings and tail assembly of the Breguet 730 flying boat.

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Tail Cargo Stability Rudder 62

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In addition to repairing the left gear leg, the right gear and rudder were removed for recovering. Andrew with the Taylorcraft in the 1980s, before it received the checkerboard tail. We hop out of the cockpit, and Andrew ties the ship to the tarmac for the night. Looks good with retracts, he replies. That sound is the same.

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Airplanes Hangar Runway Tarmac 97

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Aircraft Controls: Primary ControlsAilerons, Elevators, Rudder The three primary flight controls ailerons , elevators, and rudderare essential for piloting an aircraft. Elevators, found on the tail, manage its pitch, or up-and-down motion. The rudder, also on the tail, adjusts yaw, which affects left and right turns.

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Aileron Drag Rudder Descent 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The glass cockpit overshadows the cooperative, complacent RV-9A’s character. I lamented that there was no tail tie-down until I remembered that I had brought three welded rebar tie-downs and a heavy hammer to drive them in. Soft” IFR is what you plan for, and “hard” IFR is what you might get. There was also a link to a bridge for sale.

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 74

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. Designed by John Chotia based on his two previous ultralight designs, the Weedhopper and the Woodhopper, but with a wooden cockpit pod, this example was built and flown by L.

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Airplanes Jet Pilot Weather 105

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 29, 2024

MiGs on your tail! Lead banked and wagged his rudder, signaling us to maneuver back into a spread formation. All cockpit gauges confirmed critical systems were humming and happy. Four o’clock!” Break right! Break left! We flew directly over the target, roughly 10,000 ft. What the….? Had we been hit?

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Drag Thrust Pilot Rudder 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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. Most of the ailerons mass lies behind the hinge, making it tail-heavy. potentially reverting the aileron back into a tail-heavy state.

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Aileron Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Longitudinal Axis 90

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The glass cockpit overshadows the cooperative, complacent RV-9A’s character. I lamented that there was no tail tie-down until I remembered that I had brought three welded rebar tie-downs and a heavy hammer to drive them in. Soft” IFR is what you plan for, and “hard” IFR is what you might get. There was also a link to a bridge for sale.

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 52

Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

The Rifle ASOS recorded a gust of 43 mph from the south: a 100-degree shift in direction, putting it right on his tail. The Rifle ASOS recorded a gust of 43 kt from the south: a 100-degree shift in direction, putting it right on his tail.” How Does It Feel in the Cockpit When We Encounter A Microburst?

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Pilot AGL Wind Shear Runway 52

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 10, 2024

But just as Vraciu and his wingman, Ensign Lou Little, who were at the tail-end of the formation and about to make their dives, Vraciu spotted a flight of A6M Zeros between 2,000 and 3,000 feet above him and Little coming from their 7 o’clock position. His wing tank and cockpit exploded.”

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Cockpit Tail Pilot Stability 128

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 6, 2024

In this new guise, with its cockpit pushed four feet further aft, N5111N was designated as a Boeing Model 299Z. Brooks had long wished to own an airworthy Flying Fortress as his father, Elton Brooks, had flown 35 missions as a B-17 tail gunner with the 570th BS, 390th BG from RAF Framlingham in England.

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Tail Airplanes Cockpit Firewall 126

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Unlike traditional aircraft, the Puffin’s vertical stabilizer and rudder were mounted below the fuselage rather than atop it, providing an unconventional, inverted look. Positioned beneath the trailing edge of the upper wing, the open cockpit provided the pilot with excellent all-around visibility.

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Stability Tail Aileron Rudder 98

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 5, 2024

The tailfin was modified with additional area forward of tail plane, with a Meteor NF Mk.12-type This safety pilot handled engine starting, re-lighting and fuel control. 12-type fin giving more surface area for greater stability and to compensate for the extra fuselage length. feet this was the longest Meteor produced.

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Cockpit Rudder Stability Pilot 119

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

James Kightly] The cockpit of the last Blriot built, constructed by the craftsmen of the Blriot factory in 1921 and gifted to Louis. This is well shown in this original Blriot cockpit in London’s Science Museum, the stick bottom ‘cloche’ showing the origin of the other term.

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Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Aileron Airplanes 68

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Contemporary postcard showing Louis Bleriot flying the Bleriot VIII, a forerunner to the Bleriot XI (Wikimedia Commons) By 1908, Blriot developed the Blriot VIII, the first airplane to combine a hand-operated joystick for the aircraft’s pitch and roll axis and foot-operated rudder controls for the yaw axis.

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Airplanes Horizontal Stabilizer Rudder Stability 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

It sported a supercharged 450 hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior and an enlarged vertical stabilizer and rudder to match. The ailerons, elevators, and rudder featured fabric covering stretched over lightweight aluminum frames. However, the Spartan’s belly flap was controlled separately from the wing flaps.

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Rudder Stability Airplanes Aileron 80

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

More refined than its 1909 Military Flyer predecessor, it was the first Wright design to feature an elevator on the tail rather than a canard, it added wheels to eliminate the need to launch from a rail, and it had a more powerful engine. A rotor on the tail controlled pitch. A replica 1910 Wright Model B aircraft.

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Airplanes Tail Cockpit Rudder 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

True, a slightly higher aspect ratio wing was desired, which in turn required a larger vertical tail and thus a little extra mass, but the size, approximately 20% larger than a Widgeon, was set. The Mallard—it’s a trike—has a tail stinger because it otherwise falls on its tail when loading.”

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 77

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The radiator was mounted in the center section of the upper wing, similar to the German Albatros fighters, and that same center section had a cutout for the pilot sitting in the cockpit, who also had two synchronized.30 The last 50 MB-3As featured another revised tail assembly and rudder, and several aircraft flew not only with two.30

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Cockpit Airplanes Tail Pilot 55

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. Out back, theres an entirely new tail. Theres an unusual duck tail between the two elevator halves that provides a measure of anti-stall behavior. You might ask what happens with crosswind landings when you take away rudder authority.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

Airspeed Junkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

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. It is a single-seat aircraft. Some distinguishing features include oval air intake (O-shaped) under its wings. They have powerful turbine engines that create thrust.

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Jet Thrust Stability Cockpit 52

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. It’s the rudder that is doing everything. The landings are a little tricky, if you will.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124