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Blog: V-Tail Myths And The Truth, As We Know It, So Far

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As the former owner of a vintage V-tail Bonanza, I always pay attention when one of them crashes. It involved an in-flight breakup, and the pilot was a doctor. Both invoke traditional assumptions about V-tails, and even vintage Bonanza lovers like me acknowledge there is at least a grain or two of truth in each.

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Blog: V-Tail Myths And The Truth, As We Know It, So Far

AV Web

As the former owner of a vintage V-tail Bonanza, I always pay attention when one of them crashes. It involved an in-flight breakup; and the pilot was a doctor. Both invoke traditional assumptions about V-tails, and even vintage Bonanza lovers like me acknowledge there is at least a grain or two of truth in each.

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The Fenestron Factor: Cabri G2 Crash in Gruyéres

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CABRI G2 SERVICE LETTER 12-001 Yaw control in approach It is recommended to keep this letter with the Flight Manual. The service letter goes on to explain that the Cabri G2’s Fenestron tail rotor requires immediate and significant right pedal input to counteract the yaw movements, especially during low-speed manouevres.

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Learning a Lot Without Going Flying

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A random airliner doesnt often call up for push and taxi without an associated flight plan, and to do so with a desire to taxi around the airport for 10-15 minutes is even more unusual. Wings for All gave participants a reasonable expectation of what they would experience on an actual flight.

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Flight Test Files: A-5A Vigilante

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These flights followed two flight plans based upon earlier NASA Flight Research Center studies, one for a variable-sweep wing configuration and the other for a delta-wing configuration. NASA Flight Research Center test pilot William H. NASA Flight Research Center test pilot William H.

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Nimbl Continues its Expansion of a Seamless Flight Ops Experience with New 2-Way Airplane Manager Integration

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The partnership brings enhanced efficiency and safety to flight preparation. As Nimbl customers create flight plans in Airplane Manager, flight information such as departure, destination, tail number, PIC, SIC, etc., are automatically synced between Nimbl and Airplane Manager.

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Two Weeks in the RV

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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. Next morning, I was looking for where a front would be thinnest, so the flight plan had a big 90-degree turn in it after penetrating the front visually.

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