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

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 7, 2025

Known for their role as a tandem jet trainer from 1948 to 1959, the T-33 is the airplane I thought I might have to reach for my first sick-sack in, only to laugh my way through it for an exhilarating, one-time 11-minute ride. But my recommendation is to find a very early Bonanza for your first V-tail experience.

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Airplanes Tail Pilot Jet 98

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Below are other critical pieces of the wings that help give the plane additional lift, reduce drag, or achieve lower speeds in preparation for landing: Ailerons: A French word meaning “fin” or “little wing,” the aileron helps control the airplane’s roll. What are the basic parts of this section?

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

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. Jet Engine Combustors During the 1990s and early 2000s, NASA improved the technology associated with jet fuel combustion to help engines burn fuel more cleanly.

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Wind Shear Airfoil Drag Airlines 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Increased lift on the raised wing immediately creates more induced drag. What’s induced drag? Induced drag is the resistance that happens as a result of creating lift, caused by swirling air around the wings that slows the airplane down. The higher drag on the raised wing reduces its speed relative to the lower wing.

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Stability Center of Gravity Aileron Rudder 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The problem is that the aileron can only be deflected to a point after which the drag becomes significant. 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

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. This signifies a significant increase in drag which is causing the airspeed to drop by 15 to 20 knots.

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Knot Approach Descent Weather 98

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

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! It felt like we were dragging an 18-wheeler truck! We rendezvoused with a KC-135 tanker and took turns topping off our fuel tanks, before crossing into North Vietnam. Four o’clock!”

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Drag Thrust Pilot Rudder 52

Airspeed Junkie

JULY 31, 2024

Overview of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner The Boeing 787, commonly known as the Dreamliner (or Boeing dreamliner), is a series of long-haul, wide-body, twin-engine jet airliners. Innovative features like the Hybrid Laminar Flow Control (HLFC) system further enhance the Dreamliner’s fuel efficiency by reducing aerodynamic drag.

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Turbulence Aviation Technology Airlines Airline 59

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In order to trace the origins of the FJ-2 and the FJ-3, one must look back to the US Navy’s first carrier-borne jet fighters. In order to trace the origins of the FJ-2 and the FJ-3, one must look back to the US Navy’s first carrier-borne jet fighters. Navy Naval Aviation News, May 1952.)

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Jet Approach Flight Deck Drag 111

Chess In the Air

JULY 4, 2022

Once Shmulik was in the pattern the key thing that possibly could have helped him (besides a greater altitude) is a very high airspeed to get out of the sink and safeguard against the sudden tail wind. If that happens, the propeller causes a lot of extra drag, comparable to half-extended airbrakes. Absolutely!

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Wind Shear AGL Lift Runway 52

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 14, 2024

During WWII, the German manufacturer Junkers built a forward-swept wing jet bomber called the Ju 287, which was captured by the Red Army and served as the basis for the Soviet’s OKB-1 EF-131 and 140 prototype bombers, and in the 1960s, West German manufacturer Hamburger Flugzeugbau built the HFB 320 Hansa Jet.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Center of Gravity Tail Drag 96

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The jet slammed into the ground six thousand feet short of the runway, taking the lives of 134 people. Unable to recover, the jet struck approach lights short of the runway and then towers 8 and 9. A massive explosion followed, and the tail section skidded backward. Keep wings level to prevent unnecessary drag or instability.

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Wind Shear Weather Descent Approach 66

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 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.

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 80

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 22, 2024

Load’s” relatively safe haven high in the tail section left him hanging upside down on steel-wire control cables, emulating a tree sloth. That meant balancing aerodynamic forces on the flight controls with a large “trim wheel” linked by cables to tabs on the aft edge of our horizontal tail. I was dragging tail.

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Weight-Shift-Control Tail Cargo Airplanes 52

AeroSavvy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In some cases, the cargo stays on the aircraft while the jet is fueled, then continues to the destination with a fresh crew. Warmly dressed crews in four deicing trucks apply Type-4 fluid to the wings and tail surfaces of a UPS Boeing 747-8F. This is often called a “Gas & Go.” Anchorage International is always open.

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Cargo Weather Runway Drag 52

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program has the dubious accolade of being the most expensive fighter jet project in history, with an estimated lifetime cost of over $1.7 But the cost of the defense project doesnt always equate to the most expensive fighter jets in terms of sticker price.

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Jet Thrust Payload Drag 278