Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Since most aircraft spend nearly 90% of their operational time in cruise flight, the cruise lift-to-drag ratio determines the cruise performance of the aircraft. Engines play a vital role in ensuring that necessary thrust is provided to counter the drag forces and achieve a level flight.

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AOPA

JULY 25, 2024

Samson Sky, maker of the experimental Switchblade flying sports car, announced design updates that the company says will improve the vehicle’s thrust/drag issues.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

The exhaust coming out of aircraft engines looks pretty dangerous, generating huge amounts of thrust and pushing back tons of hot air. This horizontal component of lift is called Induced Drag. Its called induced drag since it only exists as a consequence of lift. If youre generating lift, youre stuck with induced drag as well.

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 11, 2025

They flew a total of 313 missions, collecting invaluable data on pitch stability, lift, drag, and buffeting in transonic and supersonic flight. The jet- and rocket-powered aircraft exceeded expectations, performing better than predicted in high-speed wind tunnel testsparticularly in drag performance above Mach 0.85.

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Drag Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Airfoil 52

Flight Training Central

MAY 7, 2024

The four forces acting on an airplane in flight are lift, weight, thrust, and drag. lift, weight, gravity, and thrust. Which basic flight maneuver increases the load factor on an airplane as compared to straight-and-level flight? lift, gravity, power, and friction. remain the same regardless of gross weight.

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Gross Weight Longitudinal Axis Airfoil Lift 98

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

READ MORE: Interstate TDR Developed as Unusual Kamikaze Machine Moulton Taylor, the designer of the similarly configured roadable “Aerocar” that would fly a couple of years later, added that at idle a propeller mounted to the extreme aft end of the fuselage has the effect of an anti-spin drag chute, adding stability and aiding recovery from spins.

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Drag Thrust Stability Tail 133

WayMan

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This range, also known as the stratosphere, is ideal for several reasons: Fuel Efficiency : The thinner air at high altitudes reduces drag, helping aircraft consume less fuel. These limits are influenced by: Air Density : As altitude increases, the air becomes thinner, reducing the engine’s ability to generate thrust.

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Turbulence Drag Ceiling Weather 52

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Understanding the Basics of Flight Aerodynamics 101 Flying a small plane revolves around understanding four key forces: lift, thrust, drag, and weight. Thrust, produced by the engine, propels the plane forward, overcoming drag, which is the resistance caused by air.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Understanding the Basics of Flight Principles of Flight: Lift, Weight, Thrust, and Drag Flying a plane for the first time requires a basic understanding of the forces that make flight possible. Thrust, produced by the engines, moves the plane forward, while drag, or air resistance, slows it down.

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Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The autobrake engaged, reverse thrust was deployed and they began to decelerate. avoided the wheel brakes and cancelled the reverse thrust. With the crosswind, the wet runway and no autobrake or reverse thrust, they needed a lot more runway than usual but they still had enough distance to come to a halt, if only they could stay on it.

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Crosswind Rudder Knot Runway 52

Aerotime

JULY 26, 2024

The UK has a rich and deep history in engineering, invention, and innovation, and in the 18 th century it was the epicenter of the Industrial Revolution which dragged the world into the new age of industrialization.

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Lift Aviation Technology Cargo Drag 275

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 26, 2024

[Public Domain, UK Government photo via Wikimedia Commons] Apart from the engine enhancements, the aircraft was also equipped with a cooling system that was aft-positioned to reduce the fuselage drag and generate jet thrust from heating air exiting the radiator.

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Drag Payload Thrust Pilot 116

Northstar VFR

JANUARY 8, 2024

Thrust Thrust is our forward motion. In a commercial airliner, the jet engines are creating the thrust required for the heavy plane to move forward. In your car, the engine under the hood is creating thrust for you to move forward, but you stay on the ground because you don’t have wings! Drag opposes lift.

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Flight Training Central

MAY 6, 2024

Those struts and wires create a lot of parasite drag, an anathema for aircraft whose design and mission is speed. Short field landings can be shorter because the drag robbing ground effect is lessened by the greater distance between the wing and ground. The bi-wing design has one serious flaw.

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Lift Drag Airplanes Ground Effect 97

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Davis stating, “The pilot had about a 10 second lag when he wanted to go and about 2 seconds lag when he wanted to stop, with both thrust and drag being powerful and non-adjustable when they did occur.” The throttle controls also suffered from control lag, with Frank W.

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Thrust Tail Jet Drag 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

When the aircraft is in a high-drag configuration, a stall at a low altitude can be quite dangerous. Landing flaps add a lot of drag; removing this notch will help the aircraft accelerate quickly. It’s mainly due to the effects of thrust and the high-energy slipstream from the propeller preventing boundary separation.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

During training, you’ll learn about Newton’s laws of motion, Bernoulli’s principle, and aerodynamic forces, including lift, thrust, and drag. The physics you’ll encounter is straightforward. A Private Pilot License usually costs between $16,000 and $21,000.

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 27, 2024

One of the standout features is its unique wing design with a high aspect ratio, which allows for improved lift and reduced drag, ensuring smoother and more efficient flights. Additionally, the A350 features advanced wing designs and sharklets that maximize lift and minimize drag, further enhancing fuel efficiency.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 29, 2024

Thrust : The force generated by the engine that propels the aircraft forward. Drag : The aerodynamic force opposing the aircraft’s forward motion. This increases lift but comes at the cost of increased induced drag. Pilots must counteract the additional drag with more thrust to maintain altitude.

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Lift Rudder Drag Checkride 52

Latatuide 33 Aviation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The Challenger 350 has innovative cantlet wings that minimize drag alongside powerful engines that deliver immense thrust. At Latitude 33, we recently implemented a Bombardier customer aircraft that includes various sustainability features and design choices.

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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. The engine creates thrust by burning fuel.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The problem is that the aileron can only be deflected to a point after which the drag becomes significant. Adverse yaw is created due to the drag differential between the two sides of the aircraft. The downward moving aileron produces more lift, but also generates more induced drag. This creates drag.

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Learn to Fly

JULY 11, 2024

An airplane’s energy state uses the balance between airspeed, altitude, drag, and thrust to represent how efficiently the airfoil is operating. Additionally, these devices can give a visual rendering of the energy management state of the airplane. Will you be attending EAA AirVenture this year?

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Northstar VFR

JULY 21, 2024

The pilot controls the throttle to create thrust. When an airplane starts a turn, there is more lift, and therefore, more drag created in the raised wing. Because of the increased drag, the nose of the plane wants to yaw in the direction of the lifted wing. As the propeller spins, it creates a slipstream that strikes the rudder.

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Bennett, who focused on incorporating a rotor-driven lift system with conventional wings and engines for forward thrust. This design reduced drag and increased efficiency during forward flight. However, the rotor blades were not powered during flight; instead, they were auto-rotating.

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Runway Drag Airplanes Knot 59

Pilot's Life Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Aerodynamics and Flight Theory : Youll learn the basic principles behind flight, including the four forces: lift, thrust, drag, and weight. Youll learn how the four forces of flightlift, drag, thrust, and weightinteract to keep an aircraft in the air. Lets break down what you can expect from these topics.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Additionally, the straight-wing design of the XP-59 caused drag issues, which limited its performance and speed. Additionally, the engine limitations, such as overheating, reliability issues, and insufficient thrust compared to other jets, contributed heavily to the decision not to carry the XP-59 production forward as a front-line fighter.

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AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When an aircraft exceeds M MO , a shock wave forms over the wing causing increased drag, buffeting, and possible loss of control. The autopilot/autothrottle system will use pitch and/or thrust to maintain the speed commanded by the Command Bug. Critical Mach on a 767 is around 0.91

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Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

” The 3,800-pound-thrust Ukrainian-built AI25-TL engine needs an air-assisted start provided by the onboard Sapphire APU. “I constantly get thrown around in the backseat while we’re on the ground as folks get used to it.” ” He joked, “That’s one reason I wear the helmet.”

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Knot Rudder Pilot Jet 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

This principle is fundamental in generating lift, thrust, and maneuverability, allowing aircraft to fly. Thrust (how it moves forward). Thrust and Propulsion Systems A wing has to move fast enough through the air to generate lift effectively. That force is called thrust. Thrust relies on Newtons Third Law as well.

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Lift Thrust Torque Aileron 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This specific design reduced drag alongside providing exceptional lift and stability, two very crucial factors for high-altitude bombing. Vulcan engines had a high thrust-to-weight ratio, allowing it to reach higher altitudes much faster than the other bombers in its category. Another aspect of Vulcan’s popularity is its versatility.

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Payload Thrust Stability Lift 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon Turbojet 301R engines, mounted in a staggered arrangement, the Lightnings engines produced 32,720 pounds of thrust with full reheat, roughly equivalent to 80,000 horsepower. This arrangement also reduced drag by 25% compared to a conventional engine setup.

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 6, 2024

The F-15’s vertical takeoff capabilities, achieved through its impressive thrust-to-weight ratio and advanced flight control systems, allow rapid ascents and extreme maneuverability, vital in combat situations. This immense thrust capacity is a key factor in the F-15’s speed, vertical takeoff capabilities, and overall combat effectiveness.

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Jet Thrust Pilot Cockpit 52

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

On June 15, 1985, during the second stop off in Beirut, a 23-year-old US Navy diver called Robert Stethem was dragged to the plane’s open door and executed with a gunshot to the head. The report concluded that the cause of the accident was “unlawful interference by the hijackers which resulted in loss of engine thrust due to fuel exhaustion”.

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Air Facts

JULY 22, 2024

The Four Forces of Flight (Lift, Thrust, Drag & Gravity) obey Newton’s Three Laws of Motion. STEM was the main course. Like Moses and the Ten Commandments, aviation is limited by 10 laws of physics and chemistry. The oldest is Archimedes’ Law.

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Lift Knot Airfoil Airplanes 98

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We learn all about aerodynamics, thrust, drag, lift, and gravity, study flight manuals, emergency procedures, and FARs, take oral exams and check rides, and constantly review everything we can find about flying. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.”

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Runway Pilot Approach Weather 95

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 29, 2024

It felt like we were dragging an 18-wheeler truck! Functioning exactly as designed, those flat-plate boards sticking into the airstream were creating beaucoup drag, battling against the J-79s’ thrust. All cockpit gauges confirmed critical systems were humming and happy. What’s wrong, old girl? Firing missiles!”

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