Remove Firewall Remove General Aviation Remove Horizontal Stabilizer
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Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

Pretty much the only metal parts are the landing gear legs, stainless firewalls, engine mounts, engines and hardware. Just recognizable in the background is a horizontal stabilizer and one-piece elevator. Everything that can be composite is, all the way down to the engine baffling. Pricing You would have to ask.

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Plane and Pilot

General aviation is driven by myriad forces. The previous CTs had a stabilator for pitch, where the new F2 uses a more conventional elevator and fixed horizontal stabilizer. With the F2, the rudder and vertical stabilizer are changed, with the rudder becoming a much smaller surface than before.

Rudder 83
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Incidents and accidents: AeroTime’s commercial airline safety roundup of 2024  

Aerotime

Air taxi operations, executive jets, helicopters, and general aviation activities have been excluded in the interests of concision. Post-accident assessment of the aircraft revealed substantial damage to the auxiliary power unit (APU) firewall bulkhead, resulting from the aircrafts aft fuselages contact with the runway surface.

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